The Walrus Poetry Prize offers prizes of $5,000 and $1,000 respectively for poems that win juried and readers’ choice competitions. Finalists will be chosen by 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize
winner Karen Solie and Walrus poetry editor Michael Lista.
International Festival of Authors (IFOA)
Title: International Festival of Authors (IFOA)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) brings together the world’s best writers of contemporary literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions, and public book signings each October.
Learn more here.
Start Date: October 23, 2013
End Date: November 2, 2013
Jan Zwicky reads at Tree Reading Series
Title: Jan Zwicky reads at Tree Reading Series
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada’s longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa’s vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers to present their own work and to benefit from exposure to the work of other writers. In providing this service, Tree hopes to inspire and sustain the development of the literary community in Ottawa and to promote Ottawa as an important community for Canadian literary arts.
Jan Zwicky reads with Méira Cook, and the evening also features an open mic.
Learn more here.
Date: October 9, 2012
Birthdate of Paul Celan
Title: Birthdate of Paul Celan
Location: Romania
Description: Romanian poet and translator Paul Celan was born on this date in 1920. He died in 1970.
Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, won the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Learn more about Paul Celan here and here.
Date: November 23, 2012
Birthdate of Sharon Olds
Birthdate of Margaret Atwood
Title: Birthdate of Margaret Atwood
Location: Canada
Description: Griffin trustee Margaret Atwood was born on this date in 1939.
Learn more about Margaret Atwood here and here. You must, of course, follow her on Twitter here.
Date: November 18, 2012
Margaret Atwood Birthday Party
Title: Margaret Atwood Birthday Party
Location: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Description: Laurentian University is pleased to announce that the eighth annual Margaret Atwood Birthday Dinner will be held this year in the Vale Inco Cavern at Science North. The evening will include dinner catered by Curious Thyme’s, a reading by Margaret Atwood from her collection of short stories forthcoming this fall, a book signing, and a unique multimedia performance by Debajehmujig Theatre entitled “My Cousin’s Cousin’s Cousin, Margaret Atwood.”
Learn more here.
Date: November 13, 2012
Birthdate of Michael Ondaatje
Kerrytown BookFest
Title: Kerrytown BookFest
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Description: The Kerrytown BookFest is an event celebrating those who create books and those who read them. The primary goal is to highlight the area’s rich heritage in the book and printing arts while showcasing local and regional individuals, businesses, and organizations. The event features authors, storytellers, publishers bookbinders, book artists, book illustrators, poets, letterpress printers, wood engravers, calligraphers, papermakers, librarians, teachers, publishers, new, used, and antiquarian booksellers and many others associated with books and their diverse forms, structure, and content. The festival also offers a popular children’s area, with storytelling and creative activities.
Learn more here.
Date: September 9, 2012
