Poets Rose Després, Marie-Andrée Gill and Hector Ruiz were part of the jury for the 2022 Radio-Canada Poetry Prize.
The three jurors must select the best poem or group of unpublished poems to be submitted to this year’s competition.
The particularity of this competition, open to anyone writing, whether novice or professional, is that the texts are judged blindly (names are not visible in the texts).
The last day to submit an essay is May 31, 2022. The results will be released in November 2022.
THE 2022 RADIO-CANADA POETRY PRIZE JURY
Poet and translator, Rose Despres was born in Cocagne, New Brunswick. He has been active for 40 years in the world of literature and collaborated on the foundation ofAnchors, an Acadian journal of creative writing. Author of seven collections of poetry, she won the Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie prize in 2001 for wonderful life, and the Éloizes Prize for SI have been a long time in 2010. He published, last March, Stay in Belle-Cote.
From Mashteuiatsh, Marie-Andree Gill is a poet Innu. His three collections of poetry – gaping (2012), Spawning (2015) at Heat the outside (2019)-everyone won him a Poetry Prize at the Salon du livre du Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean. He was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Poetry Award in 2013 and for the Émile-Nelligan Award in 2015. He hosts a podcast let me tell you : the twisted story, in which he defined 11 significant words for Aboriginal people. Along with poet Joséphine Bacon, she co-hosted The language is Josephine. Together they discovered the meaning of the words in Innu-aimun.
Professor of Literature at Collège Montmorency, Hector Ruiz was born in Guatemala. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Who arranged? (2008), Domestic gestures (2011), desert and desert fox (2015) at Roots and fiction (2019). He was awarded the Award for Innovation in Teaching Poetry at the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival, co-sponsored by Dominic Marcil, in 2011. He also co-authored two books including the latter: national taverna hybrid of genres between poetry, letter and historical narrative, and an essay, Read on the street, walk in poetry.
A real springboard for Canadian writers, the Prix de la création Radio-Canada is open to anyone writing, whether novice or professional. Each year, they award the best stories (story experiences), short stories and unpublished poems submitted to the competition.
Did you write poetry? Send us your unpublished poems before May 31, 2022!
Source: Radio-Canada