Rebecca Hirsch Garcia lives in Ottawa, Ontario.  An O. Henry award winning author, her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review , PRISM ...

The arts don't just enrich cities; they build them. As we head into the municipal election, we're bringing together artists, cultural workers, organizations, and residents to advocate for the investm...

Bywords publishes poetry, a Calendar of Literary Events, and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Its aims are to publish emerging and established poets who reside, study or work in Ottawa.

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I place my sister in this place and wait.  Sun, glittered pools, rock. A depression the shape of my family.  She does not move and...

Explore The 30/30 Project, a poetry challenge supporting Tupelo Press. Sponsor poets writing 30 poems in 30 days and embrace the power of poetry.

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Nadia Bozak lives in Ottawa and teaches at Carleton University. Her latest novel, Fret , has recently been published by ECW. Q: How long ...

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span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:      the ottawa     small press     book fair autumn 2026 : will be held on Satur...

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Bywords publishes poetry, a Calendar of Literary Events, and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Its aims are to publish emerging and established poets who reside, study or work in Ottawa.

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I was interviewed on-stage by Kyeren Regehr (Victoria, British Columbia's seventh poet laureate, by the way, who I interviewed as part of t...

Drawing a map of what’s been taken might seem like a contradiction at first. Maps are often used for wayfinding or as instruments of...

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Elegies for the Fish Prince of Arkansas Lea Graham $6   January 16, 2024     your face in the evening schools of longing             --Audre...

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poems and other writing by IAN MARTIN.

Submissions for the 2026 Diana Brebner Prize are open until September 1! Attention Ottawa writers who haven't published a full-length book o...

Okay, so I know you already know I had a poetry book out a couple of weeks back, but did you know Spuyten Duyvil just published a book-lengt...

To Be Gibraltar , James Wilson Morrice, c.1913. Oil and graphite on wood.   It dominates.   A massive gold rock     shaped like a ...

Look Out, Yellow Umbrella Jason Heroux $6 Can U help me, yellow umbrella? Yellow umbrella, can U tell me? Come here, yellow umbrella, come i...

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Submissions for the 2026 Diana Brebner Prize are open until September 1! Attention Ottawa writers who haven't published a full-length book o...

You probably already know that July 9th was the thirty-third anniversary of above/ground press , yes? And that first ever above/ground press...