Our 2025 Kingfisher Poetry Prize is now open! For this contest, we are delighted to welcome back the multitalented Jude Neale as our final judge. pulpliterature.com/get-to-know-... #writingcontest #poetrycontest #literarymagazine #shortpoems

The NMAF BIPOC Mentorship Program is looking for passionate mentors. Guide emerging BIPOC creators in Canadian publishing. Share your expertise, build relationships and champion diversity. Apply now: zurl.co/ps22g

📣🚨CALL FOR PERFORMERS! Living Hyphen & the Peel Art Gallery, Museum + Archives are looking for poets, musicians, dancers, comedians, and all storytellers who live in/have lived in Peel and who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ to share their stories for 'Living Queer History'.  livinghyphen.ca/call-for-per...

The VWF Youth Writing Contest is open now! Spread the word to a young writer in your life. Entries will be accepted from BC students in grades 5–7 and 8–12 until May 31, 2025. buff.ly/q3N5nwL Cash prizes + publication in the VWF newsletter will be awarded to the winners!

Attention poets! There are just 3 days left to submit to our annual Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. For more information, visit: tnq.ca/nick-blatchford-contest

Attention writers! Our 15th annual Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest is back! Share your passion with us and submit your personal essay by March 28th: tnq.ca/edna-staeble... #writingcommunity #amwriting

Nominations are now open for Winnipeg's next Poet Laureate! Cruise on over to the Winnipeg Arts Council website for details! winnipegarts.ca/poet-laureat...

But don't cruise on without submitting to Scrivener! We'd appreciate photography that romanticizes the weather and mends the pot-hole that is 30cm of snow. scrivenerreview.com/submit

We're looking for more copy editors to join our team! If you're passionate about speculative fiction, have a strong grasp of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and consistency, come apply! Deadline is March 3. More details on duties and how to apply are on our website: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

Applications are open now for Writers in the Classroom! The Spring 2025 season will provide 12 free author visits to schools across Metro Vancouver, between April–June 2025. Help us spread the word to the teachers and educators in your life! #BookSky writersfest.bc.ca/youth#writer...

The 2025 X Page Workshop is now accepting applications! Submit you application by February 28th: tnq.ca/x-page/join/

Submit to our monthly poetry competition! We are awarding a small honorarium of $50 + a live performance opportunity at one of our salon events! Details: fireandashpublishers.com/salonsubmiss... #poetrycommunity #toronto #poetrycompetition #poetrycontest #torontopoets #canlit #poetrysalon #livemusic

Love what we do and want to be part of it? khōréō is looking for First Readers! First Readers must be available for a few hours a week, three times a year. Deadline for applications is February 17! More details on duties and how to apply are on our website: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

Virtual exhibitor booths are back at #FOLD2025 from April 27- May 4! If you’re a literary or publishing organization, apply for one of our virtual booths by March 10. Apply today at thefoldcanada.org/exhibitors

Atlantic Legacy Award 2025 nominations now open! Submissions and Guidelines: atlanticbookawards.ca/the-atlantic... Image feating out 2024 Winner: Gloria Ann Wesley

Announcement: We are extending the deadline for submissions for our Poetry Salon Competition to February 14th, at 11:59PM! Share your best poems with us! fireandashpublishers.com/salonsubmiss... #poetrycommunity #toronto #poetrycompetition #poetrycontest #torontopoets #canlit #poetrysalon #livemusic

Living Hyphen endorses the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. We call on orgs within our cultural sector to support the work of BDS + PACBI movements to end Israeli occupation, settler-colonialism, and apartheid. livinghyphen.ca/blog/2025/1/... #FreePalestine

Want to learn more about Palestine and understand the horrors of apartheid and occupation? This book list is all about Palestine and Palestinians, and the connections between Canada and Palestine. 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #CanLitResponds #CanLit #FreePalestine

Qwerty 50: Cornerstone submissions are officially open! This issue is open exclusively to writers and artists based in our hometown of Fredericton, NB, or who work for Fredericton-based publications (eg @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @gooselane.bsky.social ) Details at qwertymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Register now for our upcoming FOLD Academy workshop at foldacademyhudsonlin.eventbrite.ca

This is a massive win for #CanLit! Boycotts work! 👏🏽 Many thanks to @wawog.bsky.social and so many authors for their leadership in boycotting the Giller Prize! #FreePalestine

January is coming to a close, but we aren't ready to wrap up the Poem of the Year Contest yet. So, we are now accepting submissions our annual contest until February 15! There won't be another extension so you'd better submit today! More details here: buff.ly/45YdiC4

New openings for first readers have opened up at khōréō! First readers must be available for a few hours a week, three times a year. Deadline for applications is February 17, 2025. More details on duties and how to apply are on our website: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

So many excellent #litmags! Additions welcome. go.bsky.app/B3jEBFu

And finally, we have two sponsored residencies provided by WFNS that are open to all writers in Nova Scotia. ✏️ Apply by Feb. 6! writers.ns.ca/jampolis/spo...

Calling Indigenous writers from across Atlantic Canada! This residency is for you :) writers.ns.ca/jampolis/spo... 5/6

Are you looking for a funded opportunity to get away and write? To finish your book or move forward on a project? Look no further! We are accepting applications for month-long sponsored residencies at our home-away-from-home at Jampolis Cottage. Apply by Feb 6! writers.ns.ca/jampolis/spo... 🧵1/6

Reminder! Submit your #poetry to the Fire and Ash Poetry Salon Competition! Deadline = February 7th, 2025 at 11:59 PM. www.fireandashpublishers.com/salonsubmiss... #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #toronto #artsandculture #poetrycompetition #poetrycontest #torontopoets #canlit #poetrysalon #livemusic

Calling all authors, publishers, photographers and designers. Submissions are now open for the 2025 City of Vancouver Book Award! Submit by March 5 at 4pm. vancouver.ca/people-progr....

Job posting: @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social is hiring a Director of Operations and Development. Learn more and apply: bcyukonbookprizes.com/2025/01/27/h...

We at Living Hyphen are a community made up of people from diasporas from all around the world, as well as Indigenous people from many nations. Our aim is to reshape the mainstream and to turn up the volume on voices that often go unheard. livinghyphen.ca/solidarity

Hi Bluesky, we're Living Hyphen and we've arrived! We are a community that explores what it means to live in between cultures as "hyphenated Canadians" – that is, anyone who calls “Canada” home but with roots elsewhere. Learn more at www.livinghyphen.ca.