RCLAS presents “Cogswell Award Winners Reading Event”

Date: Sunday February 3, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: #IheartNewWest  Community Art Space
(courtesy of Edgar Development) 
Unit 103 – 78 10th Street, New Westminster (in the  

Columbia Square plaza across from Cockney Kings.
Look for the hearts in the windows). Close to skytrain. Free Parking.

Free to attend. Everyone is welcome.

We are pleased to announce 2023 juror Joseph Dandurand will be joined by the Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry Award recipients for this afternoon reading event with host Elliott Slinn, Poet Laureate of New Westminster.

Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of poetry in this lovely gallery setting surrounded by beautiful artworks created by members of Artists in the Boro.

Featured Poets

Evelyn Lau,
Cogswell Award First Place Winner for
Cactus Gardens published by Anvil Press

Tolu Oloruntoba,
Cogswell Award Second Place Winner for
Each One a Furnace published by (McClelland & Stewart|Penguin Random House

Megan Fennya Jones,
Cogswell Award Third Place Winner for
The Program published by icehouse poetry|Goose Lane Editions

Inquiries can be sent to secretary@rclas.com

 View winners and longlist on our website here: https://rclas.com/2023-contest/

CONGRATULATIONS! 

We are very pleased to announce the Top 3 Winners for the
10th Annual Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry.

View on website here: https://rclas.com/2023-contest/

First Place Winner:
Cactus Gardens by Evelyn Lau (Anvil Press)

Second Place Winner:
Each One a Furnace by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart|Penguin Random House)

Third Place Winner:
The Program by Megan Fennya Jones (icehouse poetry|Goose Lane Editions)

With appreciation to our 2023 judge Joseph Dandurand for his diligence, dedication, and time.

RCLAS would like to thank all the poets and their publishers who submitted work.

Thank you for your support!

Due to unforeseen circumstances we did not announce our award recipients at a live zoom event as done in previous years. Instead  we wish to invite our judge and winners to participate in a reading event to be held in late January or early Feb. It is yet to be determined if it will be an in-person or online event. 

Best,
Janet Kvammen,
RCLAS President

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