The 2025 Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize is open to Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance artists working in English in any form of performative writing, including poetry, story, monologue, hip hop, dub, sound poetry, and experimental and interdisciplinary work, who:
- Write and perform original work; and
- Have a history of public presentation that includes a minimum of three spoken word performances of different texts in front of a live audience, in person or online.
The text you submit to the prize does not have to be one of the texts you have previously performed for an audience.
• On 10 November 2025, QWF will award one to three prizes totalling $3,000 to honour excellence in spoken word as a literary art.
• All finalists will be invited to perform at a showcase co-presented by SpokenWeb and their performances will be preserved online via the SpokenWeb Archive of the Present
Residency Requirement
The author/performer must be alive and have a residence in Quebec at the time of submission. A person who has been living outside of Quebec continuously for the past five years will be considered ineligible.
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Enquiries about submissions should be directed to the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Please always refer to their website for complete details and information.
Please note, this competition is run by the Quebec Writers’ Federation not the Commonwealth Foundation.
