Longlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards, SHADOW PRICE by Farah Ghafoor is an “Urgent debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press 💛 SHADOW PRICE is available now. You can purchase it from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/sha... #booksky #canadian #poetry

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

📚 #NMAReadingList 🏆 Poetry — @arcpoetry.bsky.social @josephkidney.bsky.social ’s Gold-winning poem is a surreal, lyrical take on Alberta mythmaking. “All my sorrows cauterized into desire.” 🔗 zurl.co/5FIXF #NMAReadingList#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry

"held in no hands, made without love, lovelier than the intense attraction between your eye-songs and these desperate invocations of your little wanting heart." #TodaysPoem #poetry To Feel by Tim Bowling (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social)

New work from our 2024 juror @sarahwolfson.bsky.social out @thewalrus.ca.

New work from our 2022 finalist Jessie Jones. Enjoy!

newly posted: Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin? / @sarahwolfson.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/sara...

Save the date! On Saturday, July 26, all are invited to attend a free online reading by four Canadian authors, followed by questions and audience discussion. We hope to see you there! Join me, Drew McEwan, Léa Taranto, and Madelaine Caritas Longman for an evening of writing on #OCD. #CanLit 1/2

Congratulations to our 2022 juror Heather Christle for her new volume of poems Paper Crown. What wonderful news to start the day!

Happy pub day to ENJOY YOUR STAY AT THE SHAMROCK MOTEL by Andrew Kaufman! We hope to see you at its launch tomorrow night at TYPE Books (883 Queen St. W., Toronto) - starts at 7 PM, free and all welcome! ☘️🔑☘️

Congratulations to Rosanna Deerchild for winning the 2025 Indigenous Voices Award 2025 for Poetry in English for She Falls Again! We're honoured to have published this significant and important work from Rosanna Deerchild. You can learn more about She Falls Again here: chbooks.com/Books/S/She-...

Hey! You should come out to the ottawa small press book fair today! I made shortbread! Noon to 5pm, Tom Brown Arena, upstairs;

Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!

Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @shawnalemay.bsky.social's Apples on a Windowsill (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)! Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...

✨ July in CWC ✨ If you’ve been thinking of joining an intensive year-round writing community/program, I can’t speak highly enough of our CWC fam. @alinaetc.bsky.social, @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Ken Babstock = July www.consciouswriterscollective.com/join-the-wai...

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Next week Mcr Poetry Library will be hosting this brilliant reading showcasing some of our PhD researchers & poets 'Entangled with Mark Pajak, Anita Slater and Domenic Suntrapak'. Join us online or in-person @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, (Ottawa, ; readings/chapbook launches by : Jason Christie, Monty Reid, Beatriz Hausner, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas + Mandy Sandhu, abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-aboveg...

TONIGHT, 6PM at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street! Parliamentary Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi reads with Ottawa Poets Laureate David O'Meara + Véronique Sylvain! you should come!

S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook, , remembering Rick McNair (1942-2007), missing Jordan Abel + reading Cameron Anstee, robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...

ISSUE 31 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

MONTRÉAL! LAST MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENT! Book*hug presents a reading with Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There, and Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Re: Wild Her. Monday, June 9, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm L'Euguélionne, librairie féministe, 1426 rue Beaudry, Montréal, QC Free to attend!

new from above/ground press: Witek, Kolewe, Christie, Ballard, Reid, Jenks, Tierney, Houglum + Quartermain, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-...

We’re thrilled to announce our first of four forthcoming 2026 titles: ✨ all the time by Xiaoxuan Huang @xiaoxuanhuang.bsky.social A poetics of queer longing and silence as punctuation. Fragmented love letters. Philosophical breathwork. The emotional geometry of not-quite-saying. April 17, 2026

Join our 2020 juror Kaveh Akbar tonight to learn about sacred poetics.

While we are working behind the scenes to prepare our next contest, the Montreal Fiction Prize, run by the amazing Yolk magazine, is looking for submissions until June 15.

Excited to teach Poetry in-person at @uoftscs.bsky.social's Summer Writing School in July! We had a great time last year: writing, workshopping, discussion, a poetry walk through downtown Toronto, readings, panels & more! Please join us if this interests you! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...

Honoured to have my poem among the Finalists of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 & now available in this brand new anthology, published by Signal Editions!

Thank you for being part of the Montreal Prize in 2024, rob! This volume wouldn't exist without any of you.

a curious new review of my On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024); thanks, Andrew Torry and Alberta Views! @ualbertapress.bsky.social @albertaviews.bsky.social ; albertaviews.ca/on-beauty/

above/ground press zoom launch! Tierney, Quartermain, Houglum, Doller + Jenks, May 28 2025 / @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/abov...

Congratulations to our two-time finalist Maithreyi Karnoor! Catch her in Wales this Summer if you can!

I'm reading at the Aberystwyth Poetry Festival in June! #aberystwythpoetryfestival

Canisia Lubrin first Canadian winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for Code Noir @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social quillandquire.com/omni/canisia... (photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths)

Arc’s Poem of the Year 2025 Readers’ Choice Award is open for voting! Which shortlisted poem is your favourite? Read the standout finalist poems and cast your vote today! buff.ly/3DLvn2D

VANCOUVER. May 5th: reading with @annaveprinska.bsky.social for a dual launch of our poetry books Devotional Forensics (@gooselane.bsky.social) and Bonememory (u calgary press) at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social. Feat. as well the great Dominique Bernier-Cormier. Happy to be coming HOME.

In 1986, Barbara Godard and Frank Davey's Coach House Quebec Translations series continued the ongoing project of bringing Nicole Brossard's oeuvre into English. French Kiss, or: A Pang's Progress is a subversive feminist narrative that mocks the authority of the book. 💙

✨ Happy National Poetry Month!✨ Tin House is celebrating with a new video every Friday of April. Today it's @biancatherosestone.bsky.social, reading the poem "Psyche" from her forthcoming poetry collection 💙The Near and Distant World (2026).

exhibitors for the ottawa small press book fair, June 21, include @arcpoetry.bsky.social @madeprojects.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @thesedayszine.bsky.social + plenty of others! might we see you? smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

The Moth Short Story Prize 2025 is now OPEN! Here's everything you need to know: ✨ Judged by Evie Wyld ✨ Win up to €3,000 ✨ Open internationally ✨ Closing 30 June ✨ €15 entry fee per story Rules and entry here: bit.ly/mothshortstory25

Come launch the just published Bonememory and I used to live here in a very special double book launch with Anna Veprinska and Amy Leblanc! April 30 at Shelf Life Calgary: shelflifebooks.ca/events/24798...

This Thursday April 17, please join Poetry Matters for “Scenes of Attunement” This poetry reading is featuring Christopher Buddle, Joseph Kidney, and Willow Loveday Little. When: Thursday, April 17, 5-7pm Where: The Yellow Door, 3625 rue Aylmer Free and open to the public!

Please join Poetry Matters at The Yellow Door, April 17th from 5pm-7pm for “Scenes of Attunement" a poetry reading featuring Christopher Buddle,@josephkidney.bsky.social, and Willow Loveday Little.

🌟 Winner of The Moth Poetry Prize 2025! 🌟 We're thrilled to announce that this year's overall winner of The Moth Poetry Prize, chosen by judge Fiona Benson, is 'Raccoon Baculum Good Luck Charm' by Andrew Krivák.

Join us tomorrow for a free online reading with three esteemed finalists of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024: Sheryl White, Owen Torrey, and Wesley Rothman. For zoom information, see our website at: www.montrealpoetryprize.com/fluid-vessels

Join the community of Poetry Matters in Montreal on April 17th at the Yellow Door for a reading with @josephkidney.bsky.social, Christopher Buddle, and Willow Loveday Little.

Continuing our #NationalPoetryMonth celebrations, today we’re highlighting Chicago’s long-running and recently relaunched Phoenix Poets series, which features original poetry from emerging and established poets along with poetry in translation. buff.ly/qIIcntv

hey! did you know that VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social now has an email list you can sign up for? verse-ottawa.kit.com/4aab0fd909