2025 Bronwen Wallace Award shortlist interviews: Cicely Grace, Dora Prieto + Nicole Mae,

In case you hadn't caught over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, I've spent the past few weeks working interviews with the three shortlisted poets for this year's RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, poetry category, as run by the Writer's Trust of Canada, all of which have now posted--Vancouver poet Cicely Grace, Vancouver poet Dora Prieto and Southern Saskatchewan poet Nicole Mae--and all of whom you should be paying attention to, I think, no matter which of them wins the final prize today. And did you see the interviews I conduced last year with two of the three 2024 shortlisted poets? Toronto poet Ashleigh A. Allen and Montreal poet Faith Paré, the latter who did the most stellar reading last fall as part of VERSeFest, I'll have you know. It is good to be paying attention to what them emerging writers are up to.