News & announcements

Happening Now! 3rd Annual Drunken Clock Silent Auction is live!

November 18, 2019

Our Auction is open for bidding! Find amazing tickets, entertainment, gift cards, one-of-a-kind gifts and more here: https://www.32auctions.com/DrunkenClock2019

Introducing Brickyard

October 29, 2019

by Adebe DeRango-Adem Voice. The utterance. A performance of vocal sound. The oral/oracular tradition in the literary arts has been around for centuries, across geographies and cultures. One major influence would be the vast sweep of African and Caribbean vocal and musical traditions, which form the basis of modern iterations of dub and spoken word…

2019 Book Awards: Winners Announcement

June 15, 2019

The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2019 Book Awards Winners, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. The winners – who will each receive $2000 thanks to funding from Canada Council for the Arts , Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Canada Book Fund – will be announced…

NPM19: Announcing a new award from the League of Canadian Poets!

April 30, 2019

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

April 12, 2019

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.…