2025 NB Writing Competition

Writers' Federation of New Brunswick | POSTED: Feb 12, 2025

Contest or Award

Dig that manuscript out of the desk drawer and sharpen your pencil! The 2025 NB Writing Competition opened January 1 and runs until March 31. Open to all New Brunswick residents (English Only), as… More

SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors: Call for Entries

SCWES | POSTED: Feb 12, 2025

Contest or Award

Calling all British Columbia indie book authors and publishers, including small presses, indie publishers, university presses, and self-published authors who have a book released in 2023, 2024 or… More

Call for Expressions of Interest

The Gallery Of Human Migration Literary Award | POSTED: Feb 12, 2025

Call For Submissions

The Gallery Of Human Migration (The Gallery) is thrilled to announce the inaugural Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award, a celebration of the transformative power of migration through… More

Creative Writing Atelier in Vasto, Italy – June 21-28, 2025

| POSTED: Feb 12, 2025

Workshop or Retreat

Join us for a transformative week of creative writing in the charming town of Vasto, Italy, nestled along the Adriatic Coast. From June 21-28, 2025, Canadian authors Léa Clermont-Dion and Jean-Luc… More

Creative Writing Workshop in Vasto, Italy – September 6-13, 2025

Vasto Arts Workshop | POSTED: Feb 12, 2025

Workshop or Retreat

Vasto, a historic town on Italy’s Adriatic Coast, hosts a week-long creative writing workshop with Canadian authors Chris Di Raddo and Carolyn Marie Souaid. Held from September 6-13, 2025, sessions… More

Italian Residency

Vasto Arts Workshops | POSTED: Feb 12, 2025

Workshop or Retreat

Villa Monteferrante, home to the Vasto Arts Workshops, is offering two writing workshops in 2025. Additionally, the Villa is available as a residency for independent writers and artists focused on… More

The 2025 Poet in Residence Program

Upstart & Crow | POSTED: Feb 10, 2025

Call For Submissions

Applications for Upstart & Crow’s 2025 Poetry Residency are currently open until Tuesday, February 18. This residency offers a $4,000 grant, access to a beautiful writing studio on Granville… More

Book Launch: New and Selected Poems

David Waltner-Toews
POSTED: Feb 5, 2025

New Publication

On March 21, at 7 PM, CMU Press in Winnipeg will be launching David Waltner-Toews's New and Selected Poems, edited, with an introduction by professor Nathan Dueck from the College of the Rockies. The… More

Finding Your First 100 Readers: A Simple Strategy for Fiction Authors

Elizabeth F. Shearly
POSTED: Jan 30, 2025

Workshop or Retreat

Workshop Description:Ready to connect with your ideal readers and grow your audience? Join award-winning speaker and marketing coach Laurie Cooper for this info-packed virtual webinar, where she’ll… More

The Canadian Book Club Award for fiction

Susan Wadds | POSTED: Jan 29, 2025

Congratulations

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