Got unpublished English haiku? The Haiku Canada competition is opening Dec 15 and running until the end of February. It may get a 2 week extension… Details on the Betty Drevniok Award.
Author Archives: Pearl
P.F. Yacht Club
The annual regatta reading is coming Dec 27th, an office party for Ottawa poets. A new venue, a coffee shop/art gallery showroom in the midst of residential neighbourhood. As usual lovingly hosted by our own rob mclennan,This time The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading will be at Anina’s Café, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way, OttawaSaturday, […]
Monday reading: Refusés
Salon of the Refused: Ottawa When: Monday, December 15, 2025 – 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Bytown Museum 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa REFUSÉS Salon of the Refused Jeremiah Bartram Frances Boyle Ann Cavlovic Gillie Griftin Doua Hreiche Jen Jakob Margo Lapierre Debra Martens Pearl Pirie Lauren Radey David Stymeist Amy Tector
Process of Chapbooks: for Farr’s
Each chapbook is its own path to read, or write, or publish. There are a lot of stages to publishing a chapbook. Most, if not all, are invisible from the outside. This fall I’ve been making Crime & Ornament by Tamsyn Farr, her debut chapbook. Most of the calendar-time was finding/lucking into writing that resonates. Then […]
Upcoming Events, this weekend and next month
Ottawa small press fairThis Saturday Nov 22, 12-5pm at Paul Brown Arena, near downtown, a book fair. Launching title of Tamysn Farr’s first chapbook Crime & Ornament at the phafours table. Salon the of RefusedSalon the of Refused at the Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa on December 15, 7pm-9pm, with locals Poetea orgsnizer Gillie Griffin, and Pearl […]