The Plaza Prizes

27/06/2025

A review of one of the finest novels ever written. Cortazar is a genius.

Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar – a review by Richard Skinner

27/06/2025

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31/05/2025

Read this dang collection. It's a winner! And Barbara Black is one of our Plaza Prizewinners.

I'm super pleased to be the winner of the Short Stories (Fiction) category in the 2025 Indie Reader Discovery Awards. Woo hoo! Little Fortified Stories is making its way through that magical place called book land. Thanks to my publisher, Caitlin Press.
https://indiereader.com/.../announcing-the-2025.../
Caitlin Press

19/05/2025

Here at the Irish Cultural Centre, we invite you to check out Elaine Feeney: Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way Launch. Book your tickets today!

16/05/2025

A fabulously talented poet, writer, singer-songwriter was the winner of US$5000 in The Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines)., as judged by Natalie Diaz.

Jaye Kranz.

For more info: got to: https://theplazaprizes.com/jaye-kranz-winner-of-the-plaza-poetry-prize-60-lines/

07/05/2025

The Plaza Audio Poetry Prize Judge, Anthony Joseph, will be perform at the Philharmonie de Paris on May 17th. I wish I could be there.

Dr Anthony Joseph, Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English, will perform a retrospective of his work titled ‘The Caribbean is everywhere’ at the Philharmonie de Paris on 17 May.

05/05/2025

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02/05/2025

Judging The Plaza Audio Poetry Prize this year - the multi-talented, Anthony Joseph.

25/04/2025

Get to know our judge, TS Eliot Prizewinner, Georges Szirtes, in this interview.

Visible Communities translator in residence Csilla Toldy, sits down with poet, translator and winner of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry George Szirtes.

16/03/2025

Barbara Black's stories are amazing. She is really talented. She has won one of our contests. She is now our Flash Fiction judge. ENTER The Plaza Flash Fiction Prize 2025.

PLR cheque time!! As a Canadian author, I'm so grateful for the Public Lending Rights program that brings us compensation for published works accessed by the reading public in library collections. Thank you, Canada Council for the Arts! And thank you, readers, for supporting our work.

Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

13/03/2025

One of former judges - Rory Waterman. Recommended reading.

Come Here To This Gate (Carcanet Poetry)