The Winnipeg Free Press/Writers Collective Non-Fiction and Poetry Contests have been announced and more details will be coming soon! The contest entry form and full contest rules will be posted this week. If you would like to receive the contest entry form, please leave your email address in comments or email [email protected]…
Have you been over to the Malahat Review’s website lately?
I was going to do a post about their Non-Fiction prize, but they have 4 contests going on right now!
Here’s the skinny:
Open Season Awards
Prize money: $3000
Entries due every November 1 (postmarked)
Writers are encouraged to enter The Malahat Review’s newest contest in three categories: poetry, fiction, and/or creative nonfiction. Winners are published in the Spring issue and split the prize money three ways.
Novella Prize / Long Poem Prize…
Congratuations to the winners!
Winnipeg Free Press/Writers’ Collective
Short Fiction and Marie Barton Postcard Contests
ADULT CATEGORY
First Place -
She Was Waterton by Corina Liepert
Second Place -
The Race by Adriano Magnifico
Third Place -
Fireside Ramblings by Alex Kapkey
SENIOR STUDENT WINNERS
First Place - Christmas by Peter Heinrichs
Second Place - Montague Boy by Yeseul Kim
Third Place - Let the Rain Fall by Taylor Stoesz
Hon. Mention - The Killer Inside Me by Katelyn Cabral
JUNIOR STUDENT WINNERS
First Place
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writerly writerlies from our very own Kosmic Karen Energy Emilson:
first i quote thee….””When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Annual General Meeting
The Writers’ Collective
Sunday May 15, 2011
Winnipeg Millennium Library
Book Fair in Foyer – 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
AGM in the Buchwald Room – 3:30 p.m.
If you’d like to have your books on display for sale, please let us know as soon as possible so we can be
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OK this just sounds like fun! it’s a contest with a twist – for all the details of the Geist Magazine Erasure Contest – click HERE!!…
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 per entry, maximum 10,000 words)
Judge: Marilyn Bowering
Creative Non-Fiction
(one article per entry, maximum …
Stranger than Fiction contest, deadline Jan. 28th, theme “Unusual Childhoods”
250 Word MAX. Check them out -http://www.cbc.ca/books/strangerthanfiction/yourstories/childhood-enter.html…