Contest launched to celebrate 2011 Intergeneration Week

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI — Islanders are encouraged to participate in Prince Edward Island’s premier celebration of Intergeneration Week, says Minister of Community Services, Seniors and Labour Janice Sherry. “Intergeneration Week is an opportunity to concentrate on the importance of blended generations,” said Minister Sherry. “Unifying Islanders is imperative to our goal of becoming a One Island Community.”…

Malahat Review 2011 Creative Nonfiction Prize Deadline Approaches

There are two weeks left for you to send in your creative nonfiction entries to our 2011 Creative Nonfiction Prize!! *NOTE: The Canada Post strike is now over. Please feel free and confident to send in your entries. As long as they were put in the mail by August 1st, they will be accepted as entries.  …

The Malahat Review’s 2011 Creative Nonfiction Prize

Deadline: August 1, 2011 (postmarked) Prize: $1000 CAD Entry fee: $35 CAD for Canadian residents $40 USD for residents of the US $45 USD for entries from elsewhere (entry fee includes a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review) No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply. Submit a personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, cultural criticism,…

New Canadian Publisher Seeks Authors

We are The Workhorsery, a brand new press based out of Toronto. We put out our first novel You and the Pirates by Jocelyne Allen in September 2009, and were delighted by the warm reception it got: shortlisted for the first annual Canada Also Reads competition put on by the National Post and up for Best English Book in…

Call for Papers: A Symposium on Manitoba Writing

Call for Papers: A Symposium on Manitoba Writing to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba May 10-12, 2012, organized by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild. In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild (MWG), you are invited to take part in a Symposium on Manitoba Writing in spring 2012. Proposals for papers on all aspects of…

Strike Fire for New Authors

In the fall of 2011 Hagios Press will celebrate a publishing milestone as we release our 50th title. Hagios Press has been the home of many books by first-time authors, and to celebrate the arrival of our 50th title we are launching a new book series: Strike Fire New Author Series. Hagios Press takes pride…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

THE ISLAND FICTION READER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW FICTION Prince Edward Island’s Acorn Press invites writers to submit unpublished short stories for a new anthology of fiction by PEI writers, to be published in spring 2012. Potential contributors must have a significant Prince Edward Island connection, for example: born or raised in Prince Edward Island,…

SHYNESS ANTHOLOGY WELCOMES SUBMISSIONS

Deadline: September 15 Naomi K. Lewis and Rona Altrows are compiling an anthology, SHY. They are looking for personal essays of up to 5000 words, poems and visual artworks  that deal in an honest , fresh and non-preachy way with the creator’s experience of being shy. For essays, please send us a double-spaced Word attachment….