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:
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.
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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first i quote thee….””When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Annual General Meeting
Book Fair in Foyer – 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
AGM in the Buchwald Room – 3:30 p.m.
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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 …
January 19, 2011 WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE UPDATE
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Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Writing for Newspapers with David Jón Fuller - This workshop is presented in partnership with the The Writers’ Collective of Manitoba!
Date: January 22, 2011, Saturday
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Location: Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3, Phone: 204-943-7555.
Event: Emerging Writer Workshop Series: Writing for Newspapers with David Jón Fuller
Cost: $30 or $100 for all four workshops (WC members pay $25), contact or 943-7555 to register.
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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…
November 12, 2010 Weekly Writers Collective Update:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Aqua Landsdowne Series Reading – in partnership with Aqua Books and the Writers’ Collective – featuring Slam poet Skip Stone, with Aaron Simm and Nereo II
Date: November 25, Thursday
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3, Phone: 204-943-7555.
Event: Aqua Landsdowne Series Reading
Cost: Free!
The Aqua Lansdowne is Manitoba’s largest poetry prize. Based around the award and hosted in conjunction with the Writer’s Collective, this series celebrates the
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