Title: Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Contest submission deadline
Description: The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival was founded in 1989 and has taken place annually since then. Although it started out as the fulfillment of Governor General Award winner Leon Rooke’s personal vision, the Festival has matured and expanded over the years becoming a nationally acclaimed and widely respected literary event that still maintains a small “footprint.”
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary contest is open internationally to new and modestly published writers, who are invited to submit a short story (2500 words max.), poetry collection (of 5 poems or less), or one-act play. The best entry in each category will win a $250 prize.
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Date: July 31, 2013
Title: John Glenday reads
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library present the Picador poet John Glenday who will read from his work following an introduction from Miriam Gamble.
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Date: July 16, 2013
Title: Saskatchewan Festival of Words
Location: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: The Saskatchewan Festival of Words (established in 1996) holds a literary festival every July with 60 events over 4 days in and around historic downtown Moose Jaw. The festival showcases literary talent from all over Canada including many award winners (approximately 30 presenters each festival.) Over the 4 days of the festival we have workshops for all ages, reading sessions, concerts, film, and panel discussions and interviews. Some previous performers at the festival have been: Margaret Atwood, Lorna Crozier, Yann Martel, Lawrence Hill, Jack Hodgins, Shane Koyczan, Dionne Brand, Charlotte Gray, Robert J. Sawyer, Denise Chong, Stephen Brunt, Patrick Lane, Steven Galloway, Sharon Pollock, and M.G. Vassanji.
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Start Date: July 18, 2013
End Date: July 21, 2013
Title: Rattle Poetry Prize submission deadline
Description: The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $5,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $100 each and publication, and be eligible for the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote.
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Date: July 15, 2013
Title: bpNichol Chapbook Award submission deadline
Location: Canada
Description: The bpNichol Chapbook Award recognizes excellence in Canadian poetry published in chapbook form. The prize is awarded to a poetry chapbook judged to be the best submitted. The author receives $2,000 and the publisher receives $500. Awarded continuously since 1986, the bpNichol Chapbook Award is currently administered by the Meet the Presses collective.
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Date: July 1, 2013
The final poem in David McFadden's 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection What's the Score? throws out pretty quickly a word that could describe not only the narrator, but perhaps also the reader: disoriented. From a queasy start, where does that poem take both?
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TORONTO – June 13, 2013 – Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah, written by Ghassan Zaqtan and What’s the Score? by David W. McFadden are the International and Canadian winners of the 2013 annual Griffin Poetry Prize. They each received C$65,000 in prize money.
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As the Griffin Poetry Prize judges' citation observes, August Kleinzahler's "The Strange Hours Travelers Keep is a masterful collection of work from a poet who inhabits the energies of urban life more fully than anyone currently writing." The poem from which this collection gets its title captures those energies in a fashion that is both fascinating and a bit unnerving.
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Title: Fish Quill Poetry Boat
Location: Grand River, Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Description: Fish Quill Poetry Boat is a ten-day annual event on the Grand River in southwestern Ontario. Each year a group of contemporary Canadian poets, along with a guest musician, canoes from town to town giving readings in cafés, arts centres, and at historic landmarks along the way.
Mosquitoes in our ears. Sunburns on our knees. And a song in our hearts. Fish Quill Poetry Boat is heading down the river — to you.
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Start Date: June 13, 2013
End Date: June 23, 2013
Title: Poetry International Rotterdam
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Description: For the 44th time in a row, Poetry International brings you a selection of the best poets from all over the world for an annual poetry spectacle in the Rotterdam municipal theatre. Join us from the 11th through the 15th of June as we journey through distant cultures and tell amazing stories, bringing you beautiful poems in a wonderful diversity of languages, as well as film, music, interviews, master classes and more.
Be on the lookout for world-renowned poets like Adonis from Syria, John Ashbery from the United States, and German poet Elke Erb, breathtaking poetry from China, our very own Dutch Poet Laureate Anne Vegter, VSB Poetry Prize-winner Ester Naomi Perquin, and much more. This year the 44th Poetry International Festival will also be working together with Rotterdam Unlimited, a new intercultural festival with music, dance, literature, theatre, and carnival, which has emerged from the fusion of Dunya and the Rotterdam Summer Carnival.
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Start Date: June 11, 2013
End Date: June 15, 2013
