Where Poets Read

Where poetry readings are happening in Montreal, and sometimes beyond | Compiled by Katherine McLeod @kathmcleod | 📷

[Where Poets Read @poetsread]

If near Dundas ON this weekend… ✨

[Where Poets Read @poetsread]

Save the date! ⚡️

[rob mclennan @robmclennanblog]

report: the above/ground press 31st anniversary reading/launch/party! / @pesbo @PeriodicityJ @VERSeOttawa ;
https://t.co/YoY5RXXW3Z

[Cult MTL @cultmtl]

Montreal singers to pay tribute to Sinead O’Connor for a good cause on July 26 https://t.co/JkueHUa0BT

[The Capilano Review @TheCapReview]

The Capilano Review is thrilled to be partnering with new reading series BELLITRIST for the Montreal launch of Issue 4.2, IT IS WHAT IT IS, hosted by Literary Editor Deanna Fong.

July 27th, 7pm
275 Sherbrooke Ouest
Readings by Ashton Diduck, Dani Carter, and Clint Burnham

[Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin88]

Talked to @PaulVermeersch about the Griffin Poetry Prize — just two years after the changes, there are no Canadian poets on the longlist.

What does it mean for how we talk about poetry? Listen where you get your podcasts, here’s the Spotify link: https://t.co/Crg4vcQDJd

[Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor]

Whoa! Brand new Canadian poetry prize announced, "The Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize."

Funded by Eurithe Purdy, it will award $10,000 annually for a poetry book published in the last two years. No submission process or fee. First winner announced April 24th.

[VERSe Ottawa @VERSeOttawa]

VERSeFest, Ottawa's International Poetry Festival, returns for its fourteenth glorious year of events.
https://t.co/VeMTt2SLvU 

This year's festival, as part of our ongoing rebuilding year, will feature a wide range of award-winning performers in English and French.

[J. R. Carpenter @jr_carpenter]

TONIGHT! online launch event for my new poetry collection The Pleasure of the Coast, and three other new @pamenarpress publications, as part of Textual Confluences: A Multilingual Poetry Voyage Feb 17th. 6 pm GMT/ 1 pm EST. Zoom. £3. 👉https://t.co/ysvk0kVW1i

[Brick, A Literary Journal @brickliterary]

Surprise! Surprise! We're open for submissions!

Shower us with your best non-fiction this weekend. No matter the topic, please send (via Submittable) your finest, most polished literary non-fiction between now and February 18.

Find more info at https://t.co/cMfWnj9AQk.

[Biblioasis @biblioasis]

Dear Montrealers join @lethal_heroine and Catherine Leroux on Feb 1st as they discuss the Canada Reads finalist: The Future!

[Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor]

We're launching @BestCdnPoetry 2024 on Feb 20th at @MassyBooks!

Readers include :

Nicholas Bradley
Meghan Kemp-Gee
Aislinn Hunter
@BarbaraNickel1
@mattleerader
Meagan Rondeau
@JoannaStreetly
Rob Taylor

Free tickets here (grab one quick!):
https://t.co/U67rUHqWuk

[Room Magazine @RoomMagazine]

Writers and artists of marginalized genders: we're still seeking works about the pleasures and pains of the flesh (yes, we pay) 🦋

ICYMI, the deadline for our BODIES issue is Jan 5. Tell us about touch & isolation & body odes & more now:

https://t.co/hBj4eWuGiO

[Quebec Writers' Federation @OfficialQWF]

It's workshop season! 🤩Winter-Spring #writingworkshops are now open for registration, covering everything from #weirdfiction and #screenwriting to applying for grants and writing residencies. Spots are filling fast—sign up now before it's too late!
https://t.co/ASF0R5dEFp

[Font Magazine @MagazineFont]

The Fall Issue, entitled Writing from the North Shore, is now live!

https://t.co/XgQ9t22d8C

@LLP_Publishing
@CanadaCouncil
@CdnHeritage

#literature #englishliterature #quebec #montreal #fontmagazine #NorthShoreQuebec

[Queer MTL @QUEERMTL]

The Violet Hour queer literature series celebrates its 5th anniversary with readings by Suzette Mayr, Christopher DiRaddo and Katia Grubisic at Casa d’Italia on November 30, 2023. Find more on the QueerMTL Things to Do! 📚#2slgbtqia #lgbttravel #mtlmoments 📷 Paul Specht

[The Ex-Puritan @ex_puritan]

NOW OPEN:
POETRY SUBMISSION
"LIGHTNING ROUND"
⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

WAKE UP, POETS. Tonight, from dusk to dawn. Rapid response (24 hours). Possibly the last time we're ever doing this. Don't miss it.

Details and guidelines:

[Quebec Writers' Federation @OfficialQWF]

ANNOUNCING: The book prize finalists for the 2023 #QWFLiteraryAwards!

22 books have made the shortlists in six categories: #FirstBook, #YALit, #NonFiction, #Poetry, #LiteraryTranslation, and #Fiction.

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/lx01SpgCBl

[quillandquire @quillandquire]

With her new Knopf Canada imprint, Alchemy, Dionne Brand is looking for books that change the script: “What kind of a world do we want? And what kinds of narratives might bring about the one that we want, or might intervene in it in some way?” https://t.co/SB8lWVUZY7