DESCANT/Winston Collins Prize — Announcement & Celebration
Friday, February 19th, 2010 / 6-8pm
PageWave Graphics
533 College Street, Suite 402, Toronto
(on the corner of College and Euclid, three blocks west of Bathurst)

DESCANT is proud to present the poetry event of the season!

Join us for an evening of celebration dedicated to the public announcement of the Winner and Honourable Mentions for the 2010 DESCANT/Winston Collins Prize for Best Canadian Poem.

This free event is open to the general public and we encourage the entire DESCANT community to attend. Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served as the winners of this year’s contest share their striking new works with us.

2010 marks the fourth anniversary of this important prize for Canadian poets. One winner will be awarded $1000, and two honourary mentions will take home $250 each. They will be chosen by this year’s judges, writers Nora Kelly and Eric Wright, from the 100 submissions we received from poets across the country.

This prize was established in memory of Winston Collins, a writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto. The prize perpetuates his remarkable talent for encouraging self-expression through writing.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

For more information about this prize and event, visit:
http://descant.ca/contest.html

Watch for the publication of the winning poems in DESCANT 149 (our Summer 2010 issue)