Julie Bruck and her book Monkey Ranch are nominated for the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Congratulations, Julie!! For the full press release, see http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2012/pe129935980746037097.htm To read more about this book, go here Read more...
You can vote for her or for Nyla Matuk (with 2 poems in this competition), Stevie Howell or Bardia Sinaee. Readers’ Choice: Public voting open from August 31 to September 30, 2012. For more information, go to http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2012/08/30/the-walrus-poetry-prize-vote/ Read more...
We received more than 2,300 submissionsto the CBC Poetry Competition. Here are the 36 works on the longlist for the 2011-2012 prize (alphabetical by author). Congratulations to those that made the longlist! http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2012/09/poetry-prize-the-longlist.html Read more...
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth by Stephanie Bolster, A Walker in the City by Méira Cook and The Truth of Houses by Ann Scowcroft are longlisted for the ReLit Awards!! The ReLit Awards acknowledge the best new work released by independent publishers. For the full listings of longlisted Read more...
“This is poetry at its most primal, spiritual and souled. Everything, now is just this. Everything. Now.” writes Shannon Webb-Campbell in the Telegraph-Journal. For the full review, go here “For its intimacy, unique structure, and handfuls of piercing moments — moments that, Read more...
Poets in Profile – Nora Gould on Open Book: Ontario- Find out what inspires, confounds and delights today’s Canadian poets by following our Poets in Profile series. “I’ve gone to Joel’s / to boil deer skulls / love Farley” writes rancher and poet Nora Gould. Read more...
The winners of the 2012 Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards were announced on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at a special event at the LCP Poetry Fest and Conference in Saskatoon, SK. Yi-Mei Tsiang was the winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for her book Sweet Devilry (Oolichan Read more...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12 2012 Canadian Women in the Literary Arts http://cwila.com/ “Editors and reviewers make choices. That’s their job. And for better or worse the choices they make matter deeply, not only to the public trajectory of individual authors and books, but also, and Read more...
WFNS Executive Director Nate Crawford announced the shortlist for the 2012 Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Awards on June 2, 2012 following the non-profit organization’s Annual General Meeting. The WFNS Literary Awards celebrate and acknowledge literary excellence from Atlantic Read more...
Amatoritsero Ede in Conversation with Kitty Lewis and Stan Dragland Amatoritsero Ede: We have informally collaborated a lot with Brick Books by reviewing your publications. We can take it a step further by having a discussion around your publishing program. Brick Books’ path, in the early Read more...
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