Summer Issue launch! The new issue is here and she is 🌼VIBRANT🌼 Our online poem party carries zero risk of sunburn and will feature readings from some of this issue's fantastic contributors! Tuesday, Aug 11th at 7pm CDT on Zoom. Free to attend. Get your invite: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The 2026 2-Day Poem Contest Winners!! We're thrilled to announce this year’s winners, as selected by our judge Sarah Wolfson, our editors, one of our editors' moms, and you! Congrats to Dessa Bayrock, @cincinnatusc.bsky.social , @jadeyuliu.bsky.social , Natalie Rice, Hayley Clin, and Tea Gerbeza!

It's true - it really could be you 👀 Give us the honour 🎖 submit your work! There’s plenty of time to submit by the Early Bird Deadline: October 1st.

Announcing: the nominees for the 2026 2-Day Contest People's Choice Award! We need your help to choose a winner for the People's Choice category! Follow the link to read the four finalists and pick your favourite. Voting closes Friday, July 17th at 11:59pm CT. contemporaryverse2.ca/vote-for-the...

“If this paratactic process is notable for having a sort of punk rock accessibility, it won’t surprise readers to find there is both a strong anticapitalist momentum and a thrilling musicality permeating the collection” Read a great review of Cam Scott’s MANOR’S RANSOM in the latest issue of CV2

CV2 Magazine@cv2magazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy spring, readers The world is a mess, but that’s nothing new Luckily, we still have poetry And luckily, the poetry still has you Thank you, poets Thank you, readers We love you all CV2 Join us on Zoom June 2nd @ 7pm CST for the launch of the Spring Issue! Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

✨️New review!✨️ "We are the children of love stories; we are also the children of migration shaped by geopolitics. Always both at the same time." Aris Keshav reviews Qaf's People by Sadiqa de Meijer. Read it here! contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/qafs...

The Foster Poetry Prize @cv2magazine.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: The Foster Poetry Prize

The Foster Poetry Prize @cv2magazine.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/contest/the-foster-poetry-prize-25664 #amwriting

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Don't miss the Spring Issue launch! We're celebrating our beautiful new issue with readings from our wonderful contributors: Hajer Requiq, talah ezzedin, Kennedy Willier, Max Maclean, Ain Khan, and Zoe Dickinson! Free. June 2nd at 7pm CST on Zoom. Get your link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for the launch of the Spring Issue! The new issue is full of fresh poetry and reviews and includes the winners of the 2025 Foster Prize! Celebrate with us June 2nd at 7pm CST on Zoom. Free to attend - follow the link below to get your invite! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy spring, readers The world is a mess, but that’s nothing new Luckily, we still have poetry And luckily, the poetry still has you Thank you, poets Thank you, readers We love you all CV2 Join us on Zoom June 2nd @ 7pm CST for the launch of the Spring Issue! Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Take a look at these gorgeous totes we screen printed! You can pick one up at our poetry party this Friday in the Exchange! Join us for live music, poetry readings, and cake! Friday, May 1st 6:30PM doors / 7:00PM readings Video Pool - 2nd Floor, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg

And that is a WRAP on the #2DayContest2026 ! Thank you so much for your participation, and we hope to see you again next year!!

my poetic assistant is really sleeping on the job as i give this year's #2daycontest2026 poem my last polish! but she's full of pizzazz so i guess it's alright. thanks for another fun weekend @cv2magazine.bsky.social! i think this one might've been the hardest one yet!

Hazel’s favourite sounding word is “zugzwang”--also because she often blocks us from moving with her long body. Her writing advice includes multiple visits to the patio & maple worship. She also suggested I clean the filthy mat under her feet. @cv2magazine.bsky.social #2DayContest2026

#2DayContest2026 The deadline is inching closer! Which of the 10 words did you find the most challenging this year?

This is Newton, my 'writing buddy' @cv2magazine.bsky.social. So far his only advice for the #2DayContest2026 has been 'maybe try napping.'

What have I signed up for @cv2magazine.bsky.social? #2DayPoem2026 #zugzwang

This is my 5th year participating in the #2DayPoem2026 contest @cv2magazine.bsky.social. I somehow managed an accomplished draft. Happier already than last year’s hot mess. Some years are simply better than others. I’ve learned to just go walk the dog. Time to do just that.

Attention poets!! Where in the world are you working from? Share your workstation for the #2DayContest2026 !

This is my third year participating in the #2DayPoem2026 contest with @cv2magazine.bsky.social . I've got a solid first draft so think I will have a walk to let it simmer, then come back to tweak for a second draft.

woke up early, looked at the @cv2magazine.bsky.social 2-day poem words, decided to go back to sleep. i wasn’t ready for this shit.

I planned to get up early. My older dog beat the alarm by 15 minutes. Laundry, dishes, coffee, and now settling in to the @cv2magazine.bsky.social #2daypoemcontest. I had a few ideas over the week, I think one of them'll work with the words.

Ready, set, WRITE! The 2026 2-Day Contest has begun! This year's words are zugzwang, deipnosophist, ululation, solivagant, pizzazz, funk, sniffishness, express, clam, and bone. #2DayContest2026 Good luck 😈 and get writing!!!

Ready for the 10 words to drop for CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest in about 90 minutes. @cv2magazine.bsky.social #Poetry

Announcing: the readers for our Poetry Month Wrap Party! We're so happy to be joined on May 1st by some of the wonderful Winnipeg-based contributors whose work appeared in CV2 this past year! Friday, May 1st 6:30PM doors / 7:00PM readings Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg

I am participating in the 2-Day Poem Contest this weekend! I will do my best to represent the mountain time zone.

CV2 Magazine@cv2magazine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💭When you're in the thick of the fever dream that is writing - it can get pretty lonely!💭

Registration for the 2-Day Contest is now closed. We'll see you all this weekend! Words will be posted as well as emailed out. In the meantime, you may want to take some inspiration from last year's second place winner, kerry rawlinson! @kerryrawli.bsky.social shares her process below.

Last-minute tips from our contest judge! Sarah Wolfson won first place in 2025 and, as per tradition, will be judging this year's contest! Today is the last chance to sign up! Don't miss out! contemporaryverse2.ca/2-day-poem-c...

2-Day Contest insight from @sarahens.bsky.social ! Read Sarah's advice below, and sign up for the contest by April 13th to participate! contemporaryverse2.ca/2-day-poem-c...

✨️Contest tips from a 2-time 2-Day champ!✨️ Dessa Bayrock won the coveted Editor's Mom’s Choice Award in 2025, and First Place in 2022! You can read Dessa's most recent winning poem in the Fall 2025 issue or on our website!