The Ottawa Poetry Podcast is online. Currently uploaded to the site are audio files of original poems read by Max Middle & Stephen Rowntree. In the coming days, the voices of other Ottawa poets will be added. In addition to studio recordings, an unedited live recording, documenting a reading given by Max Middle in the Tree Reading Series on 28 February 2006, has been posted to the site.

The Ottawa Poetry Podcast features a play menu at the top right of the home page screen as well as a direct download function.

The Ottawa Poetry Podcast is seeking submissions from Ottawa area poets. Send your queries to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

March 2006 is the tenth anniversary of Small Press Month in the US. Co-founded by the Small Press Center and the PMA, The Independent Book Publishers Association, National Small Press Month is a yearly celebration of independent publishing. The celebration looks to generate enthusiasm and action on all fronts of independent publishing—from the distributors to publishers to bookstores to writers. By involving different segments of the small and independent publishing community they seek to make more of a collective effort to raise public awareness of the important work published by small presses.

The Ontario government is recognizing the important role of the arts in Ontario with the province’s first ever Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Minister of Culture Madeleine Meilleur announced today on behalf of Premier Dalton McGuinty.

"Ontario is home to some of the best and most creative minds in the world," said Premier McGuinty. "This award will give more of our artists an opportunity to showcase their talent – and help ensure Ontario's cultural sector remains vibrant and competitive."

Span-o (the small press action network—Ottawa) presents the Ottawa small press book fair—spring edition

The event will take place on Saturday, June 17, 2006 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane). Click here for a map. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it at  to sign up for a table.

The Ottawa small press book fair runs from 12–5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors). Admission is free to the public. Tables are C$15 for exhibitors. Click here for payment info.

The March supplement to Word, Toronto's Literary Calendar supplement to is now available. You may download the PDF by clicking here.

Word provides a much-needed service to the Canadian literary scene, including reviews, comment and opinion. Word's writers and reviewers are among the most insightful and entertaining in the country.

Word's six content-heavy, thought-provoking issues per year appear as PDF files, easy to read online, free to the public and simple to print. Subscribers receive the Word Reader, packed with the best articles, reviews and writing about the world of books. The Word Reader is published three times per year, issues appearing as Winter/Spring, Summer, and Fall. Word's Toronto literary calendar of events appears online monthly as PDF files.

Source: Word: Toronto's Literary Calendar