Literary arts

Announcing the third year of The Prairie Grindstone Prize — a $50,000 literary award that acknowledges a hardworking, engaged prairie writer. This annual prize, funded by an anonymous donor committee, alternates between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This year, the prize will be awarded to an Alberta writer. The Prairie Grindstone Prize recognizes prairie writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction with a cash prize of $50,000 that will enable the writer to focus on their work for a year or more.

Writers’ Guild of Alberta Employment Opportunity: Communications Coordinator (Full Time,
Head Office, Edmonton)
Reports To: Executive Director of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.

WordsWorth 2025: OURTIME is open for registration!

Week 1 (ages 11 – 14): July 13-18, 2025
Week 2 (ages 15 – 19): July 20-25, 2025

Early Bird rate: $630
Regular rate: $655

Location: Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB
 

Building on the impactful presentations and dialogues held at the 2023 Prairie Art Institute in Regina, we are excited to announce the upcoming Prairie Art Network Institute, scheduled for June 25–27, 2025, in Calgary.

Writers’ Guild of Alberta Summer Employment Opportunity: Summer Program and Digital Media Assistant

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) invites applications from post-secondary students interested in meeting writers, promoting literary works by Albertans, and gaining experience in arts administration.

Edmonton’s Poet Laureate Shima Robinsson (AKA Dwennimmen)  invites you to come down to The Aviary for An Evening With The Poet Laureate.  This 2025 Edmonton Poetry Festival finale event will feature samplings of Dwennimmen’s unique flow and form, including: insight and presentation of works commissioned during her Laureate tenure; and a musical, collaborative exploration of Dwennimmen’s earlier work such as her first book Horn.

C’est le 10e anniversaire du French Twist, présenté dans le cadre du Edmonton Poetry Festival !

Pierrette Requier animera la soirée dans les deux langues officielles, créant un pont linguistique et culturel, pour en faire une vitrine par excellence des diverses voix artistiques francophones, qu’ils soient dramaturges, musiciens, ou poètes.

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It’s the 10th anniversary of the French Twist, presented as part of the Edmonton Poetry Festival!

Literary Editions is co-hosted by the Edmonton Poetry Festival.

This annual poetry event will feature online readings from UAlberta Press’ newest collections: This Sweet Rupture by Omar Ramadan, When Whales Went Back to the Water by Lisa Baird, and Python Love by Shannon Arntfield, all hosted by Aaron Kreuter. 

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The Edmonton Poetry Festival Society  is proud to present, to feature, to showcase, to provide for your viewing and aural pleasure a curated evening of poetics, politics, dance, & culture such as you are not likely to see the likes of any other place but at The Lorne Cardinal Theatre on April 19 as part of Theatre Networks’ celebrated Phoenix Series.