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Very Small Verse 2019 Winner: A Haiku by kjmunro
Congrats to kjumnro, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest. A Haikuby kjmunro low winter sunthe mistfrom a mandarin Originally from Vancouver, Canada, kjmunro moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991. She founded & facilitates ‘solstice haiku’, a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse. She has two leaflets with Leaf Press, & co-edited the…
Broadsheet Contest 2019 Winner: It Didn’t Happen Here by Eleonore Schönmaier
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…
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! BC writer Jacquie Pearce is celebrating National Haiku Writing Month with the League of Canadian Poets as the winner of the League’s inaugural National Haiku Contest. Chosen by guest jurors Terry Ann Carder and Naomi Beth Wakan, two of Pearce’s poems were selected through blind…
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…
2018 National Broadsheet Contest Winner: Leah Maclean-Evans
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…
2018 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners
Join the League of Canadian Poets in celebrating the six winners of the 2018 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize!
