Calling for Emerging Indigenous Poets

Requirements to apply:
1. Be part of an Indigenous community of Canada (Inuit, Métis, First Nations).
2. Be a poet, and be able to demonstrate a substantial enough body of work to support a writing residency and sustain the international tour.
3. Have published no more than three books of poetry or prose.
4. Write in English.
5. Be willing and available to write and tour with a French poet, in Canada and France, in the Spring of 2019 from April 25 – May 8 and from May 17 – 23, 2019, and to participate in the workshops, readings and interviews linked to the writing residence and tour.

If you are interested in this open call and meet the eligibility criteria, please send:
• a cover letter,
• a resume, and
• three pieces of your literary work (maximum 10 pages in total)

to Camille Cloarec, the Book and Debates Officer for the cultural service of the French Embassy in Canada of Toronto, by September 23, 2018: camille.cloarec@diplomatie.gouv.fr.

Red Rising Magazine, the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Cultures at the University of Manitoba, La Maison Gabrielle-Roy, Alliance Française du Manitoba, Double Change (Paris), the Maison de la Poésie de Nantes, the Institut Français, the Centre Culturel Canadien and the cultural services of the French Embassy in Canada are partnering to offer this writing residence and reading tour.

by Guest Contributor

Calling for Emerging Indigenous Poets

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