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A community and multi-media platform exploring what it means to live in between cultures. #livinghyphen
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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.

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Get to Know our Kingfisher Judge: Jude Neale - PULP Literature
A Place for Short Poems Our 2025 Kingfisher Poetry Prize is now open! For this contest, we are delighted to welcome back the multitalented Jude [...]
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July 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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
March 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📣🚨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...
Call for Performers: Living Queer History | Living Hyphen – A Community for Racialized Storytellers
CALL FOR PERFORMERS
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March 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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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.
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Cash prizes + publication in the VWF newsletter will be awarded to the winners!
March 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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...

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February 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Nominations are now open for Winnipeg's next Poet Laureate!

Cruise on over to the Winnipeg Arts Council website for details!

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February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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
February 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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/
February 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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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

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February 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The 2025 X Page Workshop is now accepting applications! Submit you application by February 28th: tnq.ca/x-page/join/
February 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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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...
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Poetry Salon Competition — https://www.fireandashpublishers.net/
A poetry competition for local Toronto poets to present their works in a warm setting with food, drink and music. Hosted by Fire and Ash Publishers, this event seeks to promote poetic talent at all st...
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February 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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/
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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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
February 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Atlantic Legacy Award 2025 nominations now open!

Submissions and Guidelines: atlanticbookawards.ca/the-atlantic...

Image feating out 2024 Winner: Gloria Ann Wesley
February 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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...
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February 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
Living Hyphen Endorses PACBI | Living Hyphen – A Community for Racialized Storytellers
Living Hyphen endorses the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). PACBI leads the cultural, academic, and sports boycotts of Israel’s 76-year-old regime of se...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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
Writing Palestine · Lists · 49th Shelf
Books about Palestine and Palestinians, and Canada-Palestine connections.
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February 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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
Qwerty Magazine Submission Manager
Did you know? Qwerty Magazine and Canadian literary powerhouse The Fiddlehead are both based out of Fredericton, the capital city of New Brunswick, but we've never done a collaboration before! With Th...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Register now for our upcoming FOLD Academy workshop at foldacademyhudsonlin.eventbrite.ca
Heads Up: The FOLD Webinar: Introduction to Self-Publishing with Hudson Lin. February 15, 2025. Free thefoldcanada.org/webinars-act... @thefoldcanada.bsky.social
Intro to Self-Publishing with Hudson Lin - The FOLD
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February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
Huge news! 🎉

Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer.

BDS works! We have power wherever we are.

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Giller Foundation, lead sponsor Scotiabank end partnership
The foundation that administers the Giller Prize didn’t say why the partnership ended, but the sponsorship has recently come under fire over a Scotiabank subsidiary’s investment in an Israeli arms com...
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February 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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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
January 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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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/
January 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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So many excellent #litmags! Additions welcome.
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January 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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And finally, we have two sponsored residencies provided by WFNS that are open to all writers in Nova Scotia.

✏️ Apply by Feb. 6!

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January 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM