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Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 ✨ https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
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ID: "Announcing our 2025 Foster Poetry Prize judge: jaye simpson. Final Deadline: November 1." Green backdrop with a headshot of jaye and two of her poetry books.
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The Foster Poetry Prize is open to emerging poets, which we classify as anyone who has not yet published a full-length collection of poetry (chapbooks are fine!) Follow the link in our bio to submit.

The Foster Poetry Prize is funded in part by the Manitoba Arts Council @mbartscouncil
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The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the single best poem submitted to the contest. Second and third place winners and an honourable mention will receive publication in CV2 and $350, $250, and $150, respectively.
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she is a displaced Indigenous person resisting, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver.
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They appear in: Hustling Verse (2019), Love After the End (2020), The Care We Dream Of (2021), and Queer Little Nightmares (2022). Their 1st poetry collection, it was never going to be okay won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in EN. a body more tolerable, is her 2nd book of poetry.
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jaye simpson (she/they) is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating utopia.
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✨We are so fortunate to announce that this year’s Foster Poetry Prize judge is the brilliant and luminous jaye simpson! ✨
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One month until the early bird deadline!

Are you an emerging poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection? The Foster Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 to the 1st place winner!

Submit by Oct. 1st to include an extra poem. More info: contemporaryverse2.ca/foster-poetr...
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Summer Issue Launch TOMORROW!!

We're so excited to announce our line-up of readers for the launch of the Summer 2025 Issue of CV2!

Join us August 28th at 7pm Central Time for this free online event. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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✨In honour of our 50th anniversary issue, we’ve been wandering through the archive. This issue brings back gems from M. NourbeSe Philip, Larissa Lai, and many more brilliant voices. ✨
📖 Join us this Thursday at 7pm for the launch! Register through the link in bio!
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Can you believe our 2025 Fiction Contest closes in less than a month?! Don't miss your chance to submit!

This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
A purple graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Fiction Contest. From top to bottom the graphic says: Spin the tale only you can tell. Enter our 2025 Fiction Contest. Deadline September 2, 2025! Enter via Submittable. Judged by Anuja Varghese. $2000 Prize plus publication. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/contest/fiction or email fiddlehd@unb.ca. In the background is a picture of loop of purple rope and in the lower right corner is a picture of Anuja Varghese.
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You're invited to the launch of the Summer issue! This special extended issue features archival poems from CV2's first 25 years and new work from emerging poets celebrating their first print publication!

Aug. 28th, 7pm CT on Zoom. Free, but registration is required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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You’ll notice that poets in both 1981 and 2025 write about the sea. You’ll note that poets will never stop writing about the moon. We’ve given the poets past the first word and the poets present the last, but it’s not over: our fall issue will share more archival poems, beginning with the year 2000.
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As you move through the issue, you’ll read one archival CV2 poem, followed the new work of a poet, and so on. You’ll find poems by Emily Riddle, Bob Hicok, and Frances Boyle sitting right snug up against poems by bpNichol, Bronwen Wallace, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the founder of CV2, Dorothy Livesay.
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Beginning with our first year of opera­tion, 1975, all the way up to the dawn of the new millennium, 1999, we received the kind permission of twenty-five CV2 poets past, their family members, and publishers, to share their work again.
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This issue is the result of a special project undertaken to celebrate CV2’s 50th an­niversary. Longtime CV2 editor Clarise Foster rejoined our team to help select one poem from each of CV2’s first twenty-five years of operation, to republish alongside the new work that we share in all our issues.
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The Summer 2025 issue of CV2 is here! Featuring beautiful, Winnipeg-summer-celebratory cover photography by Julio César Assis, this expanded issue is unlike anything else we’ve ever published. Get your copy here: contemporaryverse2.ca/issues/summe...
More details about this special issue below!
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I am so grateful to CV2 for this delightful lexical challenge. And to the friends who encouraged and wrote alongside me. And to Hollie Adams who selected my strange animal- and grief-filled poem as the winner.
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We’re thrilled to announce the 2-Day Poem Contest winners, chosen by our judge Hollie Adams; our editors; our editor’s mom; and you!

These poets crafted stunning poems using a dastardly ten-word list, and you’ll get to read them in our Fall issue! The winners: contemporaryverse2.ca/2025-2-day-p...
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We’re thrilled to announce the 2-Day Poem Contest winners, chosen by our judge Hollie Adams; our editors; our editor’s mom; and you!

These poets crafted stunning poems using a dastardly ten-word list, and you’ll get to read them in our Fall issue! The winners: contemporaryverse2.ca/2025-2-day-p...
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Submit here: contemporaryverse2.ca/foster-poetr...

ID: Text graphic with a dark green background and the following text in a pink font. Text: The 2025 edition of the Foster Poetry Prize is open for submissions. Early bird deadline: October 1. Final deadline: November 1.
The Foster Poetry Prize – Contemporary Verse 2
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It’s true! Submit by our October 1st Early Bird deadline and you can increase your chances of winning the grand prize of $1000 & publication in CV2, at no extra cost! After October 1st, additional entries will cost $16 each.
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Inspiration is abundant this summer and lucky for you - there’s plenty of time to submit by our Early Bird Deadline: October 1st!

💫 Did you know that if you submit to the Foster Poetry Prize in the month and a half, you can include an extra poem in your submission, free of charge? 💫
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Last chance to vote for the People's Choice Award!

Follow the link to read the poems and vote for one of the four finalists!

Voting closes TODAY, Monday, August 11th, at 11:59pm CT. Stay tuned: the winners in all categories will be announced later this week!

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Announcing the shortlist for the People's Choice Award in the 2025 2-Day Poem Contest!

Follow the link below to read the four finalists and pick your favourite! Voting closes Monday, August 11th at 11:59pm CT.

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The 2025 2-Day Poem Contest People’s Choice Award! – Contemporary Verse 2
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