News & Announcements
NPM19: Announcing a new award from the League of Canadian Poets!
To close out National Poetry Month 2019, the League is very excited to announce something big that we’re looking forward to launching this year… a brand new $10,000 poetry prize! We couldn’t think of a better way to say farewell to #NPM19 than to share something for rising talents in Canadian poetry to look forward…
2019 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner: Andrea Thompson
and the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award goes to… Andrea Thompson Andrea Thompson is a poet, novelist, educator and editor at Brick Books. Her spoken word album One was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, her album Soulorations helped earn her a Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Excellence, and she is the recipient of the 2021 Leon E.…
Very Small Verse 2019 Winner: A Haiku by kjmunro
Congrats to kjumnro, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest.
Broadsheet Contest 2019 Winner: It Didn’t Happen Here by Eleonore Schönmaier
Congrats to Eleonore Shönmaier, winner of the 2019 Broadsheet Contest.
2019 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners
Join the League of Canadian Poets in celebrating the six winners of the 2019 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize!
2018 Haiku Contest Winner: Jacquie Pearce
Congratulations to Jacquie Pearce, winner of the 2018 Haiku Contest!
Celebrating University of Regina Press – Honourary Member of the League of Canadian Poets 2018
University of Regina Press is the 2018 recipient of the League of Canadian Poets’ Honorary Membership Award. Each year, the LCP presents this award to honour and celebrate leaders in Canada’s poetry community, who achieve and contribute to poetry in extraordinary ways. University of Regina Press is more than deserving of this award, as their…
The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award 2018 Winner: Dwayne Morgan
Congratulations to Dwayne Morgan, The Winner of the 2018 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award! 2018 SHERI-D WILSON GOLDEN BERET AWARD WINNER for lifetime achievement in Canadian spoken word poetry The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award is an annual literary prize crafted specifically to highlight the unique strengths and values of spoken word poetry. The Sheri-D…
