Deadline: Postmarked by December 1, 2009 $1,000 for the Best Short Fiction; $500 each for the Two Honourable Mentions $1,000 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem; $500 each for the Two Honourable Mentions The winning entries will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of The Fiddlehead (No. 243) and on our web site. The…
Category: Awards and Contests
The Poetic Licence Contest for Canadian Youth 2010
The League of Canadian Poets, a national not-for-profit poetry organization founded in 1966, invites Canadian youth to participate in its Poetic Licence Contest. 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…
Writers International Premier Screen Talent: First Judge Announced
Wipst Premier Screenwriting Competition 2009 ‘From page to screen’ Writers International Premier Screen Talent: First Judge Announced Vibe Tv are pleased to announce the first judge on the Wipst juding panel – John Rhys Thomas John Rhys Thomas is a graduate whose career spans education and the arts. As a university student he performed regularly…
PAT LOWTHER AND GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDS
The League of Canadian Poets is now accepting submissions for our annual book awards for titles published in 2009! The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is given for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year, and is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by…
Pen & Inkling Festival : Event Details
Pen & Inkling Festival The Prince Edward Island Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) turns twenty this year and are celebrating with the Pen & Inkling Festival on the weekend of September 18 – 20, 2009. This three-day, three-county event will celebrate Island writers through the Island Literary Awards ceremony, a conversation about poetry between John Smith and David…
The Malahat Review Open Season Awards
The Malahat Review Open Season Awards Deadline: November 1, 2009 Submit work in any of our three marquee genres: poetry, short fiction, or creative non-fiction. Poetry: up to three poems per entry (max. 100 lines each); Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: one piece (max 2500 words) Fees: $35 CAD for Canadians $40 USD for US…
Grain Magazine 2009 Short Grain Contest Results
July 6, 2009 — Winners of Grain Magazine’s 21st Short Grain (with Variations) Contest The results for Grain Magazine’s 2009 contest, Short Grain (with Variations) are in. Judges for this year’s contest were Elise Levine, Fiction, and Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Poetry. Winning entries and judges’ comments will be published in Grain’s Winter issue, 37.2. Congratulations…
Dawn Brennan and Roberta Smith Win John Hobday Awards in Arts Management
Ottawa, April 21, 2009 – The Canada Council announced today that Dawn Brennan, general manager of SHAPE (Safety and Health in Arts Production and Entertainment) and Roberta Smith, associate director of artistic administration, education at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are the 2009 winners of the John Hobday Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievement in the field of…
Enfield & Wizenty Fiction Contest
This year Enfield & Wizenty launches a fiction contest to celebrate our own survival, as we go into our third season as a national fiction imprint of Great Plains Publications. For this champagne-soaked third year, Enfield & Wizenty is offering a $5,000 advance for the most outstanding submission of literary fiction that we receive. We will…
The Great Canadian Literary Hunt
The hunt is on … For talented Canadian writers to submit their unpublished gems to This Magazine’s annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt. For 13 years this national event has attracted hot new Canadian talent seeking a chance at fame and a $750 cash prize for first place. The top three entries in both the fiction…
The Writing Pool 