Category Archives: Writing in General

Competition opens: March 1, 2013 Deadline to submit: May 1, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ET This prize is awarded once a year to the best original, unpublished, poem or poetry collection submitted to the competition. All Canadians can participate. The competition is blind. A jury composed of well-known and respected Canadian authors will select a 1st place winner and 4 runners-up. The First Prize winner will receive $6,000, courtesy of read more…

Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick invites writers to enter 2013 Literary Competition Over $2,000 in cash prizes to be awarded to top submissions of prose, poetry Moncton (NB) January 8, 2012 – If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to promote your writing resolve to enter the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick’s 2013 Literary Competition. The pieces you pen may earn you a bit of fame and fortune with read more…

Thanks to a generous donation from the Kyle family of Bathurst, New Brunswick, there is a new addition to our literary competition.  Beginning with our 2013 competition, which is officially opening today, December 17, our short fiction prize is now the Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize for Short Fiction.  This is an important step in our goal of finding sponsors for all of our competition’s prizes and we are thrilled to have the support of the read more…

$2,000 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem $250 each for Two Honourable Mentions $2,000 for Best Story $250 each for Two Honourable Mentions The winning entries will be published in the spring 2013 issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 255) and on our web site. The winning authors will be paid for publication in addition to their prizes Contest Rules: Deadline: Postmarked by December 1, 2012 Entries must be original and read more…