Panel Discussion: How to Publish Your Poetry

Presented by The Oakville Literary Alliance

Join the us for a panel discussion with local poets focusing on how to get your poetry published.

Panelists Laurence Hutchman, Eva Kolacz, and Gordan Phinn are here to discuss the ins and outs of getting your poetry published. 

Laurence Hutchman grew up in Toronto and now lives in Oakville.  He has taught English at a number of universities including Concordia University, The University of Alberta, Western University and the Université de Moncton at the Edmundston Campus were he was a professor for 23 years. Hutchman has published 11 books of poetry, co-edited with Anne Compton, Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic Canada and edited In the Writers’ Words.  His poetry has received numerous grants and awards, including the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence.  His most recent book is The House of Shifting Time.  

Eva  Kolacz is an Oakville poet and artist.  She graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. and became an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists.  Her works can be found in private and public collections, including,  the archives of the Government of Ontario and the national museums of Poland.  Kolacz is a published poet and a member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario Poetry Society.  In 2019 she published her first book of poems Whatever We Are.

Gordon Phinn has been writing and publishing all his adult life, his first book of poetry being "Lyrical Shifts" in 1975  and his most recent "The Poet Stuart" (2019).  Many other titles, fiction and non-fiction, have also been issued and are listed on Amazon. Over the years he has ventured into fields of literary journalism, blogging and video blogging and retains an active presence in each.  His current project is finishing up his collected literary journalism, "It's All About Me - how criticism reveals the self" for a Spring 2020 release.

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