We’re beyond thrilled to announce the next in CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series: a free, two-part poetry workshop with Selina Boan!
In 2025 CV2 is offering five free, generative poetry workshops for emerging poets, each hosted by CV2 poetry editors past and present.
With a capacity of 10 people per workshop, we’re excited to offer 50 emerging writers the chance to work closely with our editors and their fellow workshop attendees to hone their craft, and to build meaningful connections within the literary community.
The second of these five workshops will be hosted by the wonderful, award-winning author and CV2 poetry editor, Selina Boan!
Selina’s two-part workshop will take place Saturday, May 17, & Sunday, May 18, over Zoom. As space is very limited, we require interested participants to apply using this application form. Applications are open now and are due by May 9, 2025, at 5:00pm Central Time.
Priority for this workshop will be given to applicants who identify as one or more of the following: an Indigenous writer; a writer living in Manitoba; a writer with no post-secondary education credentials; a writer with no post-graduate education in writing (such as an MA or MFA degree).
There is no registration fee for this workshop intensive. We ask that all successful applicants commit to attending the entirety of both workshops; priority will be given to those who are able to attend both of the two workshops.
Successful applicants will be contacted via email by Monday, May 12, 2025
Follow this link to apply, and stay tuned for the announcements of the three further workshops we’ll be offering this year!
Selina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer and educator living on the traditional, unceded territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples. Her debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours won the 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the 2022 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. Her work has been published widely, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She is a poetry editor for CV2.