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The Union is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the 2026 Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers.
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Ian Williams
Poet and Fiction Writer (Photo: Justin Morris)
More than ever, as isolation threatens to become the norm, I appreciate how the Writers' Union preserves a community of writers.
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Jun. 23 2026
Toronto Poetry Festival
The Toronto Poetry Festival is a celebration of multilingual poets, centred on the theme of intellectual freedom. The 2026 festival will take place on September 12th, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you are a poet, you may read your work in your own language. There is no registration fee to…
