Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers present: Bliss Carman Poetry Award - Judge: Sylvia Legris Short Fiction - Judge: Marilyn Bowering Creative Non-Fiction - Judge: Lawrence Scanlan. $6,000 in prizes. 1st prize in each category $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250. Deadline: Postmarked November 30, 2011. Entry fee…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: October 31st for the January - May 2012 Program The Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program pairs emerging writers with established, professional writers to work together one-on-one for a five month period. During the program, the emerging writer is encouraged to utilize the expertise of the professional writer in the…
Read MoreLazy Miscellaneous Post Alert! CreCommers Reading Amanda Hope of The Hope Files is organizing an all-CreComm reading over at Aqua Books at 4 pm, Saturday, Feb. 26. Sign up to read if you haven't already! Talk to Amanda. And if you don't want to read, come out to support everyone--a…
Read MoreStudents! If you have a story, poem or piece of creative non-fiction you are proud of, and can spare the $32 entry fee, this is a well-regarded local contest with real live cash prizes! Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers 2010 Writing Contests: 3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!…
Read MoreThis coming long weekend is the venerable 3-Day Novel Contest. It started with a group of Vancouver writers in 1977 who wondered if it were possible to write a novel over a weekend. And they found out that yes, it is. The contest has been handled by a number of…
Read MoreGraduating Students of the Awesome Writer Variety! You should apply for this if you haven't already been snapped up in gainful employment for the summer: Call: Aqua Books Emerging Writer-in-Residence Aqua Books' successful Writer-in-Residence program has included such local luminaries as writer/thespian Carolyn Gray, film writer Kier-La Janisse, and, most…
Read MoreLast term's creative writing instructor, Sally Ito, put me on to this one. Want your short story to appear via iPhone Application? And by "short" I mean real short. Narrative magazine has a call for submissions for six-word stories. Six words. That tell a story. I'd say a complete arc…
Read MoreI've been on Second Life, but I don't completely get it yet. I mean, I get the potential, but I haven't had an ah-ha moment. And I understand why I haven't. I don't know anyone there. Like a really, really elaborate social networking platform, SL has pretty much no point…
Read MoreDo you have it in you to hammer off a poem about the prorogation of parliament? The Mansfield Press is putting out an instant poetry anthology on the matter. They plan to publish it right around when parliament reconvenes in March. And they need your poems. Fast. As in by…
Read MoreRe-posted from Ariel Gordon: On March 20th, Theatre by the River is putting on a celebration of firsts - first tastes of wines you've never tried and first tastes of Canadian writings no one has ...ever seen. We've received short shots of new works by some of Canada's best writers…
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