Nancy Huggett wins 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award
Nancy Huggett has won the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. For her winning submission, Revelation, she will receive a $3,000 cash prize and mentorship from a Canadian author. …
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Meet the jury for the 2024 New Voices Award
PEN Canada is now accepting submissions for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The award encourages new writing and provides a space where unpublished writers (age 17 and …
Submissions open for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award
PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished writers are …
Q&A with 2023 New Voices Award Winner Christine Wu
The author on her collection of poems, Hungry Ghosts, and “how food can bring together what trauma tears apart.”
New Voices Award 2023 open for submissions
Now accepting submissions for the RBC PEN Canada 2023 New Voices Award PEN Canada is now accepting original English language submissions for the RBC PEN Canada 2023 New Voices Award. …
You’re invited to the launch of Em Dial’s Virtual Poetry Exhibition THE BALL
In “The Ball,” poet Em Dial explores how the mythos of the overtly sexual and desperately self-loathing “quad***n” has been crafted by some of the most atrocious sides of science and history. Throughout this exhibition are poems, self-portraits, and artifacts through which an artist attempts to separate themself, their queerness, and their complex familial history from the disturbing resonance of the American imagination.
Down the Road, and a World Away – Poetry Readings by Canada’s New Voices in Toronto and Montreal — October 27 and 29
Down the Road, and a World Away — Join PEN Canada and Another Story bookshop as we celebrate an evening of creative writing by some of Canada’s most original new voices.
Q&A with 2022 New Voices Award Winner Fareh Malik
Fareh Malik is a spoken word poet from Hamilton, Ontario and the winner of the 2022 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. His new book Streams that Lead Somewhere is available from Mawenzi Press. In its citation the New Voices Award jury praised Malik’s “tenderness and throat-grabbing use of imagery” and his “wide range of voices and tones to convey a nuanced spectrum of emotions and a laser sharp critique of Canada’s blatant and covert systemic racism.”
Meet the Jury for the 2022 New Voices Award
Meet the Jury for the 2022 New Voices Award PEN Canada is now accepting submissions for the 2022 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The award seeks to encourage new …
New Voices Award 2022 open for submissions
Now accepting submissions for the RBC PEN Canada 2022 New Voices Award PEN Canada is now accepting original English language submissions for the RBC PEN Canada 2022 New Voices Award. …