Digitization and the Future of Canadian Publishing “Could the printed page give way to the digital screen? Will print-on-demand become a must-have technology for publishers large and small? Is it time to close the book on the book? BookNet Canada brings together publishers, thought-leaders, retailers, and technology vendors to address the impact of digitization on the future of the Canadian book trade.”

Date: Toronto, Canada -- 20 & 21 March, 2007
Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.booknetcanada.com/events/index.html

“The Fernie Writers Conference brings established writers to work with writers of all levels in an intensive workshop setting. By encouraging positive critique of work—both in-progress and new—writers sharpen and refine their craft over the course of the Conference.”

Date: Annual. Last held Monday, July 23 through Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Fernie,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://ferniewriters.org/

From the call for papers: “… From at least F. R. Scott’s ‘The Canadian Authors Meet’ to vibrant contemporary spoken word movements, Canadian poets have made the connection between poetics and politics. Yet the roles of the poet in relation to public culture in a time variously described as postnational, globalized, diasporic, hypercapitalist have not yet been fully explored. Is this indeed a ‘time of Empire’ - either literally, or metaphorically in the various understandings of Samir Amin, Stuart Hall, Toni Negri and Michael Hardt, and others? What are the ways in which poetics and public culture are mutually implicated? How has the history of poetics in Canada helped shape the present moment?”

Date: Past. March 3-6, 2005
University of Western Ontario, London,  Ontario,  Canada
http://publish.uwo.ca/~kwarder/cfp.htm

“Our aim was, and remains, simple—to bring writers we like to Regina, and get them talking and reading to a mixed audience of students, writers, university faculty, and whoever else is interested. And, creatures of winter as we are in late March, we want these visiting writers to help inspire spring, somehow—hence the ‘spring festival of writers and writing’ subtitle to Talking Fresh.”

Date: Next festival: March 23-24, 2007.Talking Fresh 5: "Writing and Faith". Luther College. Regina.
Luther College, Regina,  Saskatchewan,  Canada
http://www.luthercollege.edu/default.aspx?DN=5169,6560,5128,1,Documents

The 6th Annual Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival, Aug 19th -29th, 2009

Date: August 19-29th 2009
Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.pandorascollective.com/sdrfestival.html

“Every two years, the E-Poetry series of Digital Poetry Festivals constitutes the most important digital literary gathering in the field. Authors and researchers worldwide meet and present their ideas and works. E-Poetry plays an essential role in the emergence of this new literary field, and provides a forum for the circulation of the ideas and the debates that animate it.”

Date: Every two years. Next:: Sunday, May 20 - Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at Université Paris VIII, Paris, France
International
http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/archive/index.html

“Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference in a different region of North America in order to celebrate the outstanding authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and small press publishers of that region. The Annual Conference typically features 250 presentations: readings, lectures, panel discussions, and Forums plus hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. The conference attracts more than 4,000 attendees and more than 300 publishers. It’s one of the biggest and liveliest literary gatherings in North America.”

Association of Writers & Writing Programs

Date: Annual. Next: February 28-March 3, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Location changes each year.)
United States
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/index.php

New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Insitutions, and Audiences, a conference at the University of Iowa, October 11-12, 2002, was the first of its kind “devoted exclusively to the critical study of this emerging literary practice.” Here, you can find abstracts of the papers presented as well as a gallery of new media sites.

University of Iowa, Iowa,  United States
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/

“The Centre’s mandate is to be nodal, catalytic, and non-censorial. Assisted by a team of international advisors who will guide and contribute to an ever-expanding (but not sprawling) exploration of inter and paradisciplinary creativity and theory… We’d like to encourage submissions from artists, interdisciplinarians, scholars, and initiates both in and outside academia.” Directed by Steve McCaffery.

State University of New York at Buffalo,  United States
http://www.nacip.net/