Carolyn Marie Souaid

Carolyn Marie Souaid is a Montreal-based writer, editor and painter. She is the author of nine poetry collections and the novel, Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik, winner of the Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction at the NYC Independent Publisher Book Awards. She has performed at literary festivals and events in Canada, Europe and the U.S., her work garnering a top prize at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin and appearing on shortlists for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Throughout her career, she has worked extensively to build bridges between linguistic and cultural communities in Quebec, including a decades-long involvement with the Inuit. Souaid's work has appeared in print and online journals, nationally and internationally, and has been featured on CBC-Radio. Her literary papers (1967-2022) are housed at Rare Books and Special Collections of the McLennan Library of McGill University.

Signature Editions Highlighted at McNally Robinson

Posted on: Wednesday, July 5, 2023

McNally Robinson Booksellers currently has a display highlighting several Signature Editions titles. This display is part of McNally Robinson’s ongoing celebration of work from Manitoba publishers, co-presented with the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers.

Manitoba Book Awards 2023 Shortlist

Posted on: Monday, May 15, 2023

We were thrilled to find out that Shop Class Hall Pass: Facing the Buried Trauma of Sexual Assault by Karin Martel and This Side of Light: Selected Poems (1995-2020) by Carolyn Marie Souaid have been shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher.

Farkas & Souaid media darlings in Slovenia

Posted on: Saturday, April 18, 2015

Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid are discovering that poets receive much more attention in Europe than in Canada. Here's a clip promo'ing their upcoming TV interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36fqflo5FA

Carolyn Marie Souaid Spotlighted on Poetry Quebec

Posted on: Thursday, December 27, 2012

Poet Carolyn Marie Souaid, author of Blood is Blood, Snow Formations, and October, is interviewed and profiled on Poetry Quebec. Read the full interview here.

BLOOD IS BLOOD Winner at the ZEBRA International Poetry Film Festival

Posted on: Thursday, November 15, 2012

Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid were declared winners at the ZEBRA International Poetry Film Festival which took place October 18th to 21st in Berlin, Germany.

Their videopoem, Blood is Blood, won in the category “Best Film for Tolerance” a prize worth 3,000 EUR created this year and sponsored by German Federal Foreign Office. The videopoem, which speaks to the ongoing turbulence in the Middle East, beat out El Sakia (The Water Wheel) from Egypt and the Turkish entry, Limewashed House in the Dark.

The ZEBRA festival is the largest and most important poetry film festival, biennially attracting film makers, poets and artists from around the world to Berlin. Of the 870 films submitted from 63 countries this year, the program committee nominated 33 for the various competitions.

BLOOD IS BLOOD Made a Selection for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

Posted on: Monday, July 23, 2012

Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas' video poem Blood is Blood has been selected for this year's programme at the 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, taking place in Berlin. Blood is Blood is a collaborative book-length poem for two voices, dealing with the bloodshed in the Middle East, a version of which was commissioned for CBC Radio in 2006. For more information, and to view the trailer, check out the Blood is Blood book page.