Sponsor a poet

Help us fund our 30th season! Do you want to make an immediate and concrete contribution to Victoria’s arts community? Sponsorship money goes directly to paying the poet’s honorarium, and/or travel expenses. And of course, all donations over $25 will receive a tax receipt.

Sponsorship details:

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HONORARIUM SPONSORSHIP:
Honorarium Sponsorship for ONE featured poet is $148. This offers an industry-standard honorarium to one poet in a double reading (a double reading = two featured poets at a single event).
Honorarium Sponsorship for BOTH featured poets is $296: This offers industry-standard honoraria to BOTH poets in a double reading.
Honorarium Sponsorship for a poet reading at New Horizons is $148. This offers an industry-standard honorarium to one poet giving a solo reading of up to 15 minutes.

FULL SPONSORSHIP:
Sponsorship for one BC POET is $548* or $748**. This covers the honorarium and travel costs for one poet visiting from Vancouver, or from a rural area in the province of BC.
Poets with an ASTERISK next to their names are traveling from Vancouver, and poets with TWO ASTERISK next to their names are traveling from further away in the province.
Sponsorship for an OUT-OF-PROVINCE POET is $948***. This covers a poet’s honorarium and (all or most of) the travel costs for a poet visiting from another province. Poets with THREE ASTERISK next to their names are traveling from another province.

To sponsor a poet, please CLICK HERE.

If you choose to sponsor a poet, you or your business will be thanked publicly at our Friday night reading and named as sponsor in the poet’s social media publicity. You will also receive a copy of the poet’s most recent book, signed if possible (as wells as the gratitude of the poet, Planet Earth Poetry, and our community).

You can of course choose to remain anonymous—just let us know!

If you need additional information please EMAIL US and put Sponsor in the subject line.

Please note that as the season unfolds, planned readers on this list may change or be rescheduled. However, if you choose to sponsor a specific poet, we will be sure to keep you up to date about their reading.