Each year Tree hosts Hot Ottawa Voices, a special reading to recognize upcoming poets without a trade collection.
Poets who have been recognized as Hot Ottawa Voices are:
2012: David Blaikie, Guy Simser, Shai Ben-Shalom, Carol Stephen
2011: Bardia Sinaee, Kathryn Hunt, Frances Boyle
2010: Cameron Anstee, Christine McNair, Gillian Wallace
2009: Chris Jenning, Gwendolyn Guth, Sean Moreland
2008: Amanda Earl, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost
2007: Emily Falvey, Jacqueline Lawrence, Marcus McCann, Sandra Ridley
2006: Jesse Ferguson, Gwendolyn Guth, Robyn Jeffrey, Nicholas Lea