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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth 2012
The League of Canadian Poets, a national not-for-profit poetry organization founded in 1966, invites Canadian youth to participate in its Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth. There are two age categories, junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades 10-12). First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize of $350, second place winners will receive $300 and third place winners will receive $250. All winning poems will be published read more…
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Colophon Prize for Fiction Contest
Colophon Prize for Fiction Contest Enfield & Wizenty is offering the third annual Colophon fiction prize: a $5,000 advance and 2012 book publication for the most outstanding novel or short story collection that combines literary and commercial appeal. Deadline is Dec. 1, 2011.Novel submissions should include a bio, synopsis, and one or two chapters. Short story collections should have appeared extensively in Canadian literary magazines, and submissions should include one read more…
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Donna Morrissey Workshop Moncton
A CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP with Best-selling, international award winning author, Donna Morrissey Moncton For more information about Donna, visit www.donnamorrissey.com) The Workshop is a one day, six hour workshop designed around: Bringing Life to Scenes through Sensory Writing. Utilizing Setting to Bring forth Characters, Utilizing Characters to Bring forth Setting. Creating Tone and Mood. Learning to create original Metaphors and Extended Similes. Date: Saturday, December 3rd. Time: 10:00 – 4:00 read more…
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The Malahat Review’s East Coast Issue
Call for Submissions! The Malahat Review‘s East Coast Issue Deadline: May 15, 2012 In the fall of 2012, The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead will celebrate the writing of each other’s regions, with the former publishing an East Coast issue and the latter a West Coast issue. Writers with strong connections to either or both regions are invited to submit to the issue that will best provide their work the read more…
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$5000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
The $5000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (under the age 35) is now taking submissions. Deadline is January 30, 2012. For all the details click the link below. RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Call for Submissions
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Poetry Submission Call, Movie-themed
Call for Submissions I Found It at the Movies. Forthcoming anthology seeks new and previously published poems inspired by cinema. All styles and approaches welcome. We’re looking for poems that reference specific films or actors, genres of film, the act of movie-going or video-watching, or the intersections of movies and life. Editors: Ruth Roach Pierson and Sue MacLeod. Publisher: Tightrope Books (spring 2013). Please submit from one to five poems read more…
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Canada Reads, True Winter Tales
Call for submissions – True Winter Tales On November 2, 2011 11:42 AM Comments0Recommend3 Can you smell it in the air? Before long, winter will be here… As delighted – or dejected – as you may be by that statement, you must admit that Canadians feel passionately about the season. You either love it, or you hate it. And whether you were born in the snowy depths of a Manitoba blizzard, read more…
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Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers 2011 Writing Contests
Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers 2011 Writing Contests 3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes! Bliss Carman Poetry Award The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman’s silver and turquoise ring to the first-prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry) Judge: Sylvia Legris Short Fiction (one story read more…
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