Congratulations to Pujita Verma, winner of the 2022-2023 Broadsheet Contest! Pujita Verma is an Indo-Canadian Poet & Illustrator. She was Mississauga’s Youth Poet Laureate (2018-2020), a Poetry In Voice National Finalist, and was recently longlisted for Palette Poetry’s Love & Eros Prize. Her work embraces themes of resilience and silence, culture and connection, memory, and…

Congrats to Anna Yin, winner of the 2022 Broadsheet Contest. Listen to “The Hollow Tree” by Anna Yin: Anna Yin immigrated to Canada in 1999, authored five poetry collections and edited/translated Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions) in 2021. Anna won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTYs, two scholarships from USA and three grants…

Congrats to Kim Fahner, winner of the 2021 Broadsheet Contest. Listen to “Beekeeping” by Kim Fahner: Kim Fahner lives, writes, and teaches in Sudbury, Ontario. She was Poet Laureate of Sudbury from 2016-18, and was the first woman appointed to that role. Her most recent book of poems is These Wings (Pedlar Press, 2019). Kim is a member…

Congrats to Laura Cok, winner of the 2020 Broadsheet Contest. Originally from northern California, Laura spent time in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Waterloo, Ontario before settling in Toronto, where she now lives. She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto, where she won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Medal and the University of…

Congrats to Eleonore Shönmaier, winner of the 2019 Broadsheet Contest. It Didn’t Happen Hereby Eleonore Schönmaier i’m in the bus which is really just an old carand it’s night and pouring rain and i’mthirteen and the car is jammed withbodies and we’re about to headdown the long dirt road out tomy settlement and the drivershouts, don’t…

We are thrilled to reveal the winner of the League’s second annual National Broadsheet Contest: Leah MacLean-Evans! Her winning poem Name Me After a Fish was selected by this year’s judge and the winner of  last year’s inaugural contest, Doyali Islam for its “subtle vulnerabilities and playful humour.” Name Me After a Fishby Leah Maclean-Evans Goldeye…

Congrats to Doyali Islam, winner of the 2022 Broadsheet Contest. Doyali Islam’s poetry has been published in Kenyon Review Online and The Fiddlehead. She is the winner of Arc’s 2016 Poem of the Year Contest and CV2’s 2015 Young Buck Poetry Prize. Her poem “cat and door” won the League of Canadian Poets’ inaugural National…