Poets, get your collections ready!

Biblioasis will be opening for submissions of poetry manuscripts on Wednesday, May 1st, and will remain open until Friday, May 31st, or we reach two hundred submissions—whichever comes first🖤

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Happy World Poetry Day! A good time to read CREE HOMO 🌾's first suite of poems as our poetry editor, with beautiful illustrations from Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun hazlitt.net/category/poetry

His new collection of short stories, “Coexistence,” offers an expansive view of intimacy that resists colonial expectations.

Why everyone should read Billy-Ray Belcourt, writes Jackie Wong.

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2024 OPEN CALL FOR MENTORSHIP & PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY
For an unpublished BIPOC writer who is a Canadian citizen / permanent resident, living in Canada.
Comes w/ a publishing contract w/ VS. Books & Arsenal Pulp Press!
Info: vsbooks.ca
Deadline: Sept 3, 2024
Please share!

We are reading for Poetry and Fiction full lengths!!! Go to yesyesbooks.submittable.com for details!!

Save money—submit now. Early Bird entry fee discounts are in effect until March 31. Our Far Horizons Award for Poetry contest is specifically for emerging writers who have yet to publish a book of poetry.

This year's judge is Patrick Grace.

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ndn girls book club and friends are bringing 10,000 books to the navajo nation i think that is noteworthy and also we would appreciate if u shared!

ndngirlsbookclub.org/donate-1

more info on the instagram!!!!!!!!

'When I stand on stage or at the entrance of every poem I’ve written, the fact of my body, its myriad histories, deep histories are inscribed there too.'

- Liz Howard

There is a certain thrill of discovery to reading CREE HOMO 🌾. His writing feels like a secret: something important, something to be shared. Learn more about the Georgia Straight's Breakout Author here: straight.com/living/breakou…

Thank you to @kwantlenu for supporting this series.

Very happy that my novel, A MINOR CHORUS, is on this illustrious longlist! Thank you to the Ottawa and Winnipeg Public Libraries for their nominations (love you forever)!

LET ME IN I NEED TO SEE MELINDA

Canadian writers and poets, The Fiddlehead's submissions are currently open to you!

Send us your best poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction by March 31. thefiddlehead.ca/submit

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📍Open to “residents of Canada who are writers from Black, Indigenous, or other racialized communities and who have not previously published a book-length collection of poetry.”

my dear friend jaye simpson has been charged with mischief for participation in a solidarity action for Palestine. her community of writers, activists, booksellers, and so on is calling for the charges to be dropped

'...I held so many

of you close   despite not meeting

thank you for your beauty...'

Happy to publish this beautiful Andrew McMillan poem over at Hazlitt

hazlitt.net/feature/honour

the grief the grief the grief the grief

Taking a mental health break today to read CREE HOMO 🌾 “coexistence” (out May 2024), while my kid runs around go bananas. I have two hrs of uninterrupted time 🤗

'Gaza is ‘running out of time’ UN experts warn, demanding a ceasefire to prevent genocide' shar.es/agXUmX

Read, reread, and amplify prologue for now - Gaza by Dionne Brand. jewishcurrents.org/prologue-for-n…

Writers Against the War on Gaza is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Join 700+ writers, artists, and others in signing our open letter, and find out more: writersagainstthewarongaza.com