Workshops

We’re beyond thrilled to announce the next component in CV2’s 50th Anniversary year of special programming: CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series!

In 2025 CV2 will offer 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.

We’re thrilled to announce that the first of these five workshops will be hosted by the brilliant, award-winning author and CV2 poetry editor, John Elizabeth Stintzi!

JES’s two-part workshop will take place March 22 & 29 at 1:00pm – 4:30pm Central Time, 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 March 7, 2025, at 5:00pm Central Time.

This workshop is open to emerging poets who seek to grow their writing practice and meet other writers in the Canadian literary community. Priority will be given to applicants who identify as one or more of the following: a trans 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 Saturday workshops.

Successful applicants will be contacted via email by Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Follow this link to apply, and stay tuned for the announcements of the four additional workshops we’ll be offering this year!

John Elizabeth Stintzi (they/she) is a writer, cartoonist, and editor who grew up on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. Their poetry has been awarded the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, The Malahat Review’s 2019 Long Poem Prize, and has been longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, while their fiction has received the Sator New Works Award, and has been shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. JES is the author of the new short story collection Bad Houses, as well as the novels My Volcano and Vanishing Monuments, the poetry collection Junebat, and three chapbooks of poetry (Flamingoes in the Greenhouse, Plough Forward the Higgs Field, and The Machete Tourist). They live and work in the United States.