14th annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt

The 14th annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt has begun. For 14 years now This Magazine has surveyed this vast country for the best and brightest in Canadian new fiction and poetry and this year, just to keep things interesting, we’ve added a new category. For the first time, we’ll award a prize for best graphic…

CALL: Ranters, Ravers and Raconteurs

CALL: Ranters, Ravers and Raconteurs Deadline: March 26 Storytelling is a great talent, one that we are letting slip. This region has a rich background not only of oral history and formal narratives, but also of the kitchen table rant-and-rave. Storytelling at the root is a face-to-face interaction, an aspect of contemporary culture that is…

The BEACON AWARD for Social Justice Literature

The BEACON AWARD for Social Justice Literature Non-fiction can move a reader to take action on an issue of social justice through ideas and information. Fiction can use these channels plus feeling and imagination. Fiction can draw readers into a sympathetic connection with someone they would originally have perceived as very different from themselves. It can present struggles and alternative…

The Malahat Review Submissions Wanted

The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry Deadline: May 1, 2010 $500 Prize (plus $20/page upon publication) Authors who have not yet had their poetry published in book format (a book of 48 pages or more) can submit up to three poems per entry, max. 60 lines each. Fees:   $25 CAD for Canadians $30 USD…

carte blanche is looking for submissions for Spring 2010!

The Montreal-based online literary magazine, http://www.carte-blanche.org is looking for fiction, non-fiction and graphic fiction writers, poets, translators, and photographers from across the country and around the world.We publish high-quality, cutting edge and good old fashioned great writing from both emerging and established writers. New for 2010, carte blanche has been invited to submit fiction for the Journey Prize award. Submission deadline…

Summit Studios runs humorous short story contest

Summit Studios, owned by Matt Jackson and his wife, is a Vancouver-based publishing company that publishes a series of Travel & Outdoor Humour anthologies. The first book in the series was called Mugged by a Moose, which was released in September 2006. Summit Studios is running a story contest to collect more travel and outdoor stories…

CALL : Contributions for Edited Anthology

Deadline: Dec. 18 Latinas/os PRESENTES: Voice, Culture and Creativity in Nuestra (Our?) Canada. We are seeking submissions for an edited collection of Latina/o Canadian cultural work to be published in 2010 by Tightrope Books, under their new Zurita imprint and edited by Lorena M. Gajardo, a Latina and scholar of Latino/a Identity in Canada. This…

CANADIAN STORIES

We publish a literary folk magazine called CANADIAN STORIES. Examples can be purchased at the Bookmark in Charlottetown .   One of the regular features is the fact that we publish contributions from every province in every issue. CANADIAN STORIES comes out 6 times a year.   Although we have an abundance of material from…

Lion Lounge Press accepting submissions for Anthology

Lion Lounge Press is an independent publishing company based in Oxford and London, that specialises in creative writing, both short creative fiction and non-fiction, as well as poetry.  They are currently accepting submissions for their 2010 publications.   In August of this year, Lion Lounge Press published its first anthology of creative writing, ‘The Lounge Companion,’ in…