Blue Metropolis Montreal Literary Festival
Blue Metropolis Foundation is a not-for-profit and charitable organization founded in 1997 that brings together people from different cultures to share the pleasure of reading and writing. The Foundation produces multilingual literary activities, such as ...
Ends: 2024-04-30 [Read More]
Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
The Festival of Literary Diversity is Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and storytellers, held in historic downtown Brampton. The FOLD provides one-of-a-kind events for kids and adults that engage readers, inspire writers, and empower educator...
Ends: 2024-05-05 [Read More]
Hexham Book Festival
Hexham Book Festival is a Not For Profit CIC and delivers an annual festival that takes place in and around Hexham in April/May each year. It has grown significantly since its first Festival in 2006 into an important part of the regional arts calendar. ...
Ends: 2024-05-05 [Read More]
Guernsey Literary Festival
The festival attracts speakers from a wide range of disciplines, from literature to politics, from history to sport, from the environment to food, from biography to travel. We also organise a full education and community programme, together with workshops...
Ends: 2024-05-05 [Read More]
Drexel Writing Festival
Since 2011, the Drexel Writing Festival has explored rock music, ritual, play, hunger and empowerment. Guests represent esteemed authors and editors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, news media and comic books. The event has also spotlighted Young Adult (YA...
Ends: 2024-05-08 [Read More]
Verses Festival of Words
The mission of the Verses Festival of Words is to celebrate the transformative power of words - written, spoken or sung; to engage diverse groups in cutting-edge, live performances as both audience and participants; to present influential artists from bot...
Ends: 2024-05-27 [Read More]
WOWFest
Throughout the entire month of May, our annual literature festival, WoWFEST, offers a programme of local, national and international writers, per...
Starts: 2024-05-01 [Read More]
Stratford Literary Festival
Since 2008 we’ve been bringing you an exciting mixture of debate, ideas, celebrity author events, workshops and humour in spring and winter. We...
Starts: 2024-05-01 [Read More]
Ottawa International Spring Writers Festival
Ottawa’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. We believe that a love of reading and learning should be nurtured throughout our lives and that literacy...
Starts: 2024-05-02 [Read More]
Bendigo Writers Festival
Bendigo Writers Festival gives you time out to tune in to the important things in life.
Five different venues will be running hour-long sessi...
Starts: 2024-05-02 [Read More]
Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference
Enjoy sessions with publishing experts who can provide career-advancing knowledge. Speakers on legal issues, short stories, writing for film, edi...
Starts: 2024-05-02 [Read More]
Montreal International Poetry Prize
Organized by McGill’s Department of English, the competition is held every two years and awards a prize of $20,000 to an original poem of forty line...
Deadline: 2024-05-01
Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction
Eligible authors have yet to publish their fiction in book form (a book is defined to have a length of 48 pages or more). One prize of $1,000 (CAD) is...
Deadline: 2024-05-01
Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest
Canada’s favorite micro-writing competition. Submit a story and a postcard-the relationship can be as strong or as tangential as you like, so long ...
Deadline: 2024-05-20
Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
The ethos of America is defined by its immigrants. Their stories have always been an essential component of the nation's cultural consciousness, ...
Deadline: 2024-05-31
California State Poetry Society Annual Contest
This contest is open to all poets, whether or not they are members of the CSPS. Entries must be in English and be the original, unpublished work of th...
Deadline: 2024-06-30