CV2 magazine

02/06/2025

✨💥We’re hiring!💥✨

CV2 is looking for a dedicated, arts-minded individual living in Winnipeg to join our small but mighty team as Assistant Managing Editor!

The Assistant Managing Editor works in collaboration with the rest of the CV2 staff on managing the day-to-day tasks of running the magazine, while also contributing to the broader creative and structural goals of the organization through collaborative decision-making practices.

Tasks include:

• Managing the CV2 website, social media pages, and newsletter
• Soliciting and editing reviews of recent poetry collections
• Assisting with CV2 launches, workshops, and events
• Managing email inquiries from contributors, subscribers, and readers

Salary: $20/hour for 8 hours/week. Part-time, flexible hours following a hybrid in-office and work-from-home model.

Start date: July 2, 2025

We’ll be accepting applications until 11:59 pm on Sunday, June 15th, and will be holding interviews June 17-20. Please email your resume and a cover letter detailing your interest in this position to [email protected].

CV2’s staff is made up of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, a diversity we are committed to maintaining and growing as we hire new team members. CV2 encourages applications from members of equity-seeking communities, including, but not limited to: members of the BIPOC community; persons with disabilities; persons across the spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities; and persons from diverse economic and educational backgrounds.

CV2 is committed to hiring on merit and to removing barriers in employment policies. Should you require any kind of accommodation during the application and interview process, please include this in your application and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Follow the link below for the full job description, and feel free to email us with any questions you may have. We look forward to reading your applications!✨

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B1aplzcAyVX9kR-z03Kh2HxlRh-sPEcXbPlGzGCB-Jk/edit?usp=sharing

ID: Text graphic with black and white writing against a sepia toned photograph of the Artspace building in Winnipeg. Text: We're Hiring. Contemporary Verse 2 is looking for an Assistant Managing Editor. Love poetry? Let's work together? More info: link in bio.

01/06/2025

💫 Calling all emerging poets! The 2025 Foster Poetry Prize is officially open for submissions! 💫

The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the single best poem submitted to the contest. Second and third place winners and an honourable mention will receive publication in CV2 and $350, $250, and $150 respectively.

The Foster Poetry Prize is open to emerging poets, which we classify as anyone who has not yet published a full-length collection of poetry (chapbooks are fine).

Submit by October 1st and you can include an extra poem in your submission, free of charge! More poems = more chances to win. Final deadline to submit is November 1st. Full contest details at the link below 💫

https://contemporaryverse2.submittable.com/submit/328935/the-foster-poetry-prize-2025

The Foster Poetry Prize is funded in part by generous funding from the Manitoba Arts Council.

ID: Text graphic with a dark green background and the following text in a pink font. Text: The 2025 edition of the Foster Poetry Prize is open for submissions. Early bird deadline: October 1. Final deadline: November 1.

26/05/2025

✨Announcing the next in CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series: a free, two-part poetry workshop with Clarise Foster and Winnipeg’s new Poet Laureate Jennifer Still! ✨

In 2025 CV2 is offering five free, generative poetry workshops for emerging poets, each hosted by CV2 poetry editors past and present.

With a capacity of 10 people per workshop, we’re excited to offer 50 emerging writers the chance to work closely with our editors and their fellow workshop attendees to hone their craft, and to build meaningful connections within the literary community.

We’re thrilled to announce that the third of these five workshops will be hosted by poets and CV2 editors past, Clarise Foster and Jennifer Still!

Clarise and Jennifer’s two-part workshop will take place Saturday, June 7th, and Saturday, June 14th, in person at 100 Arthur Street in Winnipeg. As space is very limited, we require interested participants to apply using the application form linked in our bio. Applications are open now and are due by June 2, 2025, at 5:00pm Central Time.

As space is very limited, priority will be given to emerging writers who also fall under one or more of the following categories: a writer who is a member of an equity-seeking community; a writer with no post-secondary education (such as university, college, etc); a writer with no post-graduate education in writing (such as an MA or MFA degree).

There is no registration fee for this workshop intensive. We ask that all successful applicants commit to attending the entirety of both workshops; priority will be given to those who are able to attend both of the two workshops.

Only successful applicants will receive a response to their applications, and will be contacted via email by Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Follow the link below to apply, and stay tuned for the announcements of the two further workshops we’ll be offering this year!✨

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2IVTM_gwTlqTJ_P2Mlvo0CJ-dRtsZNhK3J6MhDGUh5sturQ/viewform?usp=preview

What do you write with?

Feeling the poem with Clarise Foster and Jennifer Still

In this two-part workshop, we will engage in writing and revision exercises that connect us to our most valuable writing tools: who we are, where we're from and the feelings and experiences we write with.

There are a million ways to write a poem, but ultimately the success of a poem is determined by how you engage with it---the feelings you write it with and how you feel about it when it is done.

We will explore poetry as a mode of understanding ourselves and what language reveals to us, through meaningful, purposeful practice.

Please bring a cell phone (for taking a photo or two), a pen and a notebook, and be prepared for an outdoor excursion!

ID slide one: Text graphic with a blue sky background and featuring cut-out photos of Jennifer Still and Clarise Foster smiling into the distance. The graphic features the following text in black and white fonts: Poetry workshops with Clarise Foster & Jennifer Still. June 7 & 14, 2025. Open to emerging poets. 1pm - 4pm CT. Free.

ID slide two: Text graphic with a blue background and a beige text box, featuring the following text in black and white fonts: Announcing CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series. Five unique poetry workshops to take your writing practice further. Small workshop cohorts for a more intimate and focused experience. Hosted by CV2 poetry editors past & present. Application required, free to participate. Limited spaces available (10 per workshop)

29/04/2025

✨🌸🔥 Tonight! ✨🌸🔥

Join us on zoom as we launch our spring issue with readings from contributors! Advance registration required - follow the link below to register!

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/A1ezJ4XUQm-dhWYbBLJlXA

✨🌸🔥Check out that reader list!✨🌸🔥

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, April 29th, at 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET on Zoom as we launch our Spring Issue with readings from contributors Maleeha Farooq, Van Osborne Zimrose, Andrea Scott, Misha Solomon, Shayna Stock, and Jess Tran!

The event is free to attend and open to all, but we do require advanced registration in order to attend. Register now at the link below! 🔥

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/A1ezJ4XUQm-dhWYbBLJlXA

We prioritize making our launches as accessible as possible. Access measures in place for this launch will include live ASL interpretation, closed captions, and access texts. If you’d like to attend and have access needs we can accommodate, please let us know✨

ID: Text graphic with a green background, featuring the cover of the spring 2025 issue of CV2, and the following text in black, blue, and yellow fonts. Text: Save the date: Spring Issue Launch. Tuesday, April 29, 2025. 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET, Online & free to attend, featuring readings by Maleeha Farooq, Van Osborne Zimrose, Andrea Scott, Misha Solomon, Shayna Stock, and Jess Tran!

28/04/2025

✨🌸🔥Check out that reader list!✨🌸🔥

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, April 29th, at 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET on Zoom as we launch our Spring Issue with readings from contributors Maleeha Farooq, Van Osborne Zimrose, Andrea Scott, Misha Solomon, Shayna Stock, and Jess Tran!

The event is free to attend and open to all, but we do require advanced registration in order to attend. Register now at the link below! 🔥

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/A1ezJ4XUQm-dhWYbBLJlXA

We prioritize making our launches as accessible as possible. Access measures in place for this launch will include live ASL interpretation, closed captions, and access texts. If you’d like to attend and have access needs we can accommodate, please let us know✨

ID: Text graphic with a green background, featuring the cover of the spring 2025 issue of CV2, and the following text in black, blue, and yellow fonts. Text: Save the date: Spring Issue Launch. Tuesday, April 29, 2025. 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET, Online & free to attend, featuring readings by Maleeha Farooq, Van Osborne Zimrose, Andrea Scott, Misha Solomon, Shayna Stock, and Jess Tran!

24/04/2025

✨Beyond thrilled to announce the next in CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series: a free, two-part poetry workshop with Selina Boan! ✨

In 2025 CV2 is offering five free, generative poetry workshops for emerging poets, each hosted by CV2 poetry editors past and present.

With a capacity of 10 people per workshop, we’re excited to offer 50 emerging writers the chance to work closely with our editors and their fellow workshop attendees to hone their craft, and to build meaningful connections within the literary community.

We’re thrilled to announce that the second of these five workshops will be hosted by the wonderful, award-winning author and CV2 poetry editor, Selina Boan!

Selina’s two-part workshop will take place Saturday, May 17, & Sunday, May 18, over Zoom. As space is very limited, we require interested participants to apply using the application form linked in our bio. Applications are open now and are due by May 9, 2025, at 5:00pm Central Time.

Priority for this workshop will be given to applicants who identify as one or more of the following: an Indigenous writer; a writer living in Manitoba; a writer with no post-secondary education credentials; a writer with no post-graduate education in writing (such as an MA or MFA degree).

There is no registration fee for this workshop intensive. We ask that all successful applicants commit to attending the entirety of both workshops; priority will be given to those who are able to attend both of the two workshops.

Successful applicants will be contacted via email by Monday, May 12, 2025

Follow the link below to apply, and stay tuned for the announcements of the three further workshops we’ll be offering this year!✨

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZHJpRnZZezKM3SkNTtqqUk68GEIVwCrC6prB2UgvCpGJzQw/viewform?usp=header

Selina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer and educator living on the traditional, unceded territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples. Her debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours won the 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the 2022 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. Her work has been published widely, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She is a poetry editor for CV2.

ID slide one: Text graphic with a blue sky background and featuring a cut-out photo of Selina Boan smiling at the camera. Selina is sitting with her hands in her lap. Her hair is in two long braids, and she’s wearing glasses and a black t-shirt with a wolf on it. The graphic features the following text in black and white fonts: Poetry workshops with Selina Boan. May 17 & 18, 2025. Open to emerging poets. 1pm - 4pm CT. Free.

ID slide two: Text graphic with a blue background and a beige text box, featuring the following text in black and white fonts: Announcing CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series. Five unique poetry workshops to take your writing practice further. Small workshop cohorts for a more intimate and focused experience. Hosted by CV2 poetry editors past & present. Application required, free to participate. Limited spaces available (10 per workshop)

23/04/2025

✨🌸🔥Launch time!✨🌸🔥

Join us on Tuesday, April 29th, at 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET on Zoom as we launch our Spring Issue with readings from contributors Maleeha Farooq, Van Osborne Zimrose, Andrea Scott, Misha Solomon, Shayna Stock, and Jess Tran!

The event is free to attend and open to all, but we do require advanced registration in order to attend. Register now at the link below! 🔥

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/A1ezJ4XUQm-dhWYbBLJlXA

We prioritize making our launches as accessible as possible. Access measures in place for this launch will include live ASL interpretation, closed captions, and access texts. If you’d like to attend and have access needs we can accommodate, please let us know✨

ID: Text graphic with a green background, featuring the cover of the spring 2025 issue of CV2, and the following text in black, blue, and yellow fonts. Text: Save the date: Spring Issue Launch. Tuesday, April 29, 2025. 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET, Online & free to attend, featuring readings from contributors!

22/04/2025

🔥🌸✨She’s on fire✨🌸🔥

Introducing the Spring 2025 issue of CV2! Featuring glorious, Winnipeg-themed cover art by .iwasaki.art✨ Winnipeggers, head to the comments and share with the class what this image references!

We’ll be launching this issue next Tuesday, April 29th, on Zoom, with readings from six of this issue’s contributors. 7pm central. Free to attend, but registration is required.

Follow the links below to register for the launch and to buy your copy of the issue! 🔥🌸

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/A1ezJ4XUQm-dhWYbBLJlXA

https://contemporaryverse2.ca/

ID: Photo of the Spring Issue of CV2 against a light wood table. The cover of the issue is mainly white, with a colourful image of a burning cathedral atop the back of an imaginary creature.

21/04/2025

✨Last call to register for this year’s 2-Day Poem Contest!✨

Registration closes tonight at 11:59pm (central). Head to the link below to sign up for two days of writing, stressing, and building community - or, as one of our followers on bluesky put it: SCRIPTURA ~ PRESSURA ~ COMMUNITAS. Carve that on our tombstone 😍✨

https://contemporaryverse2.ca/2-day-poem-contest/

The 2-Day Poem Contest awards cash prizes and publication in CV2 to the writers who craft the best poems over the course of just two days, using ten words we supply on the first night of the contest.

This year, participation in the contest will include access to our online Discord server, where you’ll get to chat not only with your fellow participants about things like which words are causing you the most grief, but also with the CV2 staff and board.

And, because it’s our 50th anniversary, we have a few more special surprises in store for this year’s contest. Register now at the link above!

ID: Text graphic with a yellow background and the following text in blue and white fonts. Text: Last call to register for Contemporary Verse 2’s Annual 2-Day Poem Contest!! A weekend of wordy fun! 48 Hours, 10 words, 1 poem.

18/04/2025

✨Procrastinators rejoice!✨

Forgot to sign up for the 2025 2-Day Poem Contest? We’re giving you one last weekend to register! You now have until 11:59pm this upcoming Monday to sign up for two days of writing, stressing, and building community. Register now at the link below✨

https://contemporaryverse2.ca/2-day-poem-contest/

The 2-Day Poem Contest awards cash prizes and publication in CV2 to the writers who craft the best poems over the course of just two days, using ten words we supply on the first night of the contest.

This year, participation in the contest will include access to our online Discord server, where you’ll get to chat not only with your fellow participants about things like which words are causing you the most grief, but also with the CV2 staff and board.

And, because it’s our 50th anniversary, we have a few more special surprises in store for this year’s contest…

ID: Text graphic with a yellow background and the following text in blue and white fonts. Text: Deadline Extended! Monday, April 21, 2025 @ 11:59pm. Contemporary Verse 2’s Annual 2-Day Poem Contest. A weekend of wordy fun! 48 Hours, 10 words, 1 poem.

15/04/2025

✨Deadline approaching!✨

This is your last week to register for next week’s 2-Day Poem Contest! While the contest itself takes place April 25th-27th, registration closes April 17th, which is *checks watch*….very soon! Head to the link below to register now!

The 2-Day Poem Contest awards cash prizes and publication in CV2 to the writers who craft the best poems over the course of just two days, using ten words we supply on the first night of the contest.

This year, participation in the contest will include access to our online Discord server, where you’ll get to chat not only with your fellow participants about things like which words are causing you the most grief, but also with the CV2 staff and board.

And, because it’s our 50th anniversary, we have a few more special surprises in store for the contest this year! You won't want to miss it. Register now at the link below ✨

https://contemporaryverse2.ca/2-day-poem-contest/

ID: Text graphic with a blue background and the following text in a yellow font. Text: Last week to register! CV2’s Annual 2-Day Poem Contest. A weekend of wordy fun! Enter for your chance at publication, glory, and a sweet, sweet cash prize! Registration deadline: April 17th. 48 hours, 10 words, 1 poem

07/04/2025

🦋💙If you previously followed us on the bird app, we hope you’ll join us in our new home in the sky!🦋💙

If you’re registered for the 2-Day Poem Contest, the sky app is where we’ll be doing things like answering questions and terrorizing you about the trickiest words on the weekend of 😈 you won’t want to miss it! Follow us there 💙🦋✨

ID: text graphic with a blue background and a blue butterfly, with the following text in a white font. Text: Bye, bye birdie! .bsky.social ...a new place to find us!