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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A Reading by Sue Sorensen and Ariel Gordon

Sue Sorensen
POSTED: Jan 29, 2025

Literary Reading or Event

You're invited to a reading by Winnipeg authors Sue Sorensen (author of the poetry collection ACUTELY LIFE) and Ariel Gordon (reading from FUNGAL: FORAGING IN THE URBAN FOREST), on Thursday February… More

Spring launch, As Good a Place as Any, Guernica Editions

Rebecca Papucaru | POSTED: Jan 27, 2025

New Publication

Rebecca Păpucaru’s debut novel, As Good a Place as Any, will be published by Guernica Editions in Spring 2025, and is available for pre-order.  More

Magic Lies: An Evening with W.O. Mitchell

Orm Mitchell
POSTED: Jan 27, 2025

Literary Reading or Event

Performed by Martin JulienA fond & funny remembrance of the life and work of beloved Canadian writer W.O. Mitchell. A delightful and enriching staged reading full of tall tales, Canadiana,… More

A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Libations

Licia Canton | POSTED: Jan 27, 2025

New Publication

A LITERARY HARVEST: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Libations (2025) Eds. Licia Canton, Giulia De Gasperi & Decio CusmanoContemporary Canadian society has an ambivalent relationship with… More