News from the League

LCP Annual General Meeting 2023

Save the date! The 2023 Annual General Meeting for the League of Canadian Poets is Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 2pm EST. This meeting will be held online, via ZOOM.

Winners Announcement of the Very Small Verse and Broadsheet Contest: coming soon! Look out for the next Between The Lines newsletter on March 21 for the winners of our Cold Moon Contests

Book Awards Announcements

Coming soon

Save the date! Longlists for the 2022 Book Awards will be announced on April 6.

National Poetry Month 2023: JOY

NPM is just around the corner! Visit LCP’s NPM base for ways to celebrate, downloadable Joy graphics, NPM fun and more! Visit NPM 2023

The Jessamy Stursberg

Poetry Prize for Canadian

Youth was established to foster a lifelong relationship between Canadian youth and the literary arts, specifically poetry. The prize is supported through a generous donation from the Stursberg family and other donors in honour of Jessamy Stursberg. The prize accepts submissions from young poets all across Canada, with three prizes awarded in both the Junior (grades 7 to 9) and Senior (grades 10 to 12) categories: Winner: $400, Second Place: $350, Third Place: $300. Selected winning poems and runners-up will be published in a special edition of the League of Canadian Poets chapbook series! Deadline is April 30, 2023. Find out more.

P.K. Page Mentorship Program

- Applications are open! - PK Page mentorship sessions run twice annually, from September to December, and from January to March. Applications for mentors and mentees are accepted yearround, and will be processed prior to the next closest session. Mentees and mentors will meet every other week (likely digitally) for two hours to discuss a poetry work-in-progress as agreed upon prior to the mentorship start date. Learn more

Funding: Now open! Poetry Consultation and Workshops

Fund: Receive up to $1,500 in funding and build new poetry connections! LCP This fund will offer financial support for professional poets who are offering workshops or consultation sessions. Learn more today and apply.

OAC relaunches touring support and shares market development research

The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is fully relaunching its support to touring activity with a new component to support tour capacity. In preparation for this, OAC commissioned a market development report from Nordicity, examining the current and future state for touring artists. The modified program, Touring and Circulation Projects supports tour building activity with two categories – one for small to mid-scale tours and another for large-scale tours – each with two deadlines a year. The program funds performing arts tours as well as literary presentations and visual and media arts exhibitions. It is focused on building relationships with presenters and offers opportunities to develop the tour when it is at the “idea” stage. The tours must have a minimum of three engagements planned and at least one confirmed. Market development, artistpresenter networking and audience-building activities are eligible as long as they are connected to a confirmed presentation or exhibition outside the applicant’s home base. This same principle applies to an artistic residency, eligible only if at least one public presentation is part of the residency. Consideration will be given to environmentally sustainable tours. Learn more.

The LCP Chapbook Series LCP Chapbook Series

New titles are now available! Pick up your copy today.

-Adventitious Sounds: A chapbook for medical practitioners, learners and poets, edited by Zamina

Mithani

-Spectral Lines: a visual poetry anthology, edited by Kyle Flemmer

-The Next Generation: Volume III selected poems from the 2022 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth

-The Compassionate Poet: an Exploration – 2022 Feminist Caucus Living Archives chapbook, edited by Renee

Sarojini Saklikar

Order a chapbook!

Guide to LCP Communications for Members

Are you a member of the League who may need a refresher on what the LCP can do to help promote your poetry and build a bigger and better poetry community? We love to support our members in every way we can! Check out this webpage for a low-down of 12 great ways to get involved.

LCP Community Committees

Join a Community Committee of the League!The League of Canadian Poets is excited to invite active members of the League to sign up for committees that align with their interests and passions. Learn more and join a community committee.

Member News

The League has simplified the process to submit member news for St@nza and social media promotion. If you are a member and have news you would like shared, fill out this quick form. The next issue of St@nza will be out in March.

Suggestion Box

Do you have a great poetryrelated idea that you think the League might be interested in? Do you have any ideas that may broaden or enhance our current programming and projects? Let us know via the Suggestion Box! Let us know about your suggestion

In Memoriam

When we lose a member of the poetry community, that loss is felt deeply and with great love. The LCP has created a webpage where all are invited to remember, reflect and share memories of those from the poetry community who have recently passed. Visit our In Memoriam page.

Poetry Pause

Poetry Pause is the League’s daily digital poetry dispatch program and it’s growing every day! We deliver a daily poem an audience of over 1200 subscribers and we are always accepting submissions of published or unpublished poems! Poetry Pause is a great way to introduce new readers to your work. Submit your poetry today!

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