Contests
2026 Far Horizons Award for Poetry
Judge: Kevin Irie
Kevin Irie is a third generation Japanese-Canadian poet from Toronto. In 2024, he won first prize in Grain Magazine’s poetry contest, second prize in Prairie Fire’s poetry contest, third prize in The New Quarterly’s poetry contest and Honourable Mention in Grain’s experimental writing contest. In 2025, he was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize and was on the committee for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2026 (Biblioasis 2025) and The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket Books 2025). In 2026, he published a new poetry collection, Evacuations, available now from University of Alberta Press.
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