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Writing competitions by
deadline date January 31: Prism Fiction Contest Maximum length 25 pages Current UBC creative writing students
cannot enter Fee $25 for one story, $7 for each
additional story More info http://prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests/fiction.htm January 31: Short Grain Contest Genres Dramatic monologue, postcard
prose, prose poem Fee $28 for up to two entries per
category Prizes 12 prizes of $500 each More info http://www.grainmagazine.ca/contest.htm February 14: Writers
Union Postcard Story Competition Maximum length 250 words Prizes $500 first prize Entry fee $5 More info http://www.writersunion.ca/ April 15: Event Creative
Non-Fiction Contest Maximum
length 5000 words Fee
$25 per entry; multiple entries are allowed Prizes
$500 each for top three entries More
info http://event.douglas.bc.ca/contest.html Recent
winners Nancy Mauros The Grillers Guide to Love and Loss and Susan
Oldings At Lingyin Si won in 2004 May 1: Commonwealth
Broadcasting Association ( Maximum length 600 words Fee none Prizes first prize is $5000; 25 runners-up have
their stories recorded on a CD distributed throughout the Commonwealth More info http://www.cba.org.uk/competitions/short_story_rules.htm May 1: Malahat Review "Far Horizons" Fiction (emerging
writers only) Maximum length 3500 words Fee $25 per
story: Prizes $500 More info: http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/farhorizonsfiction.htm May 20: Subterrain Lush
Triumphant Contest Maximum length fiction (3,000 words), poetry (3
poems per entry, max 45 lines each), creative non-fiction (4,000 words) Fee $20 per entry (no limit) Recent winners: Nancy Mauros story, Lost,
was runner-up in the fiction category, 2004 More info http://www.subterrain.ca/subterrain/contests/Lush%20guidelines.htm May 16: Writers Digest
annual writing competition ( Genres fiction and non-fiction Maximum length 4,000 words Fee $15 Prizes $1000, $500 and $250 for top three in each category;
grand prize winner gets $2500 and free trip to NYC and meetings with agents
and editors More info http://www.writersdigest.com/contests/annual/74th/ May 31: Antigonish
Review "Sheldon Currie prize" Fiction Maximum
length 3500 words Fee
$25 Prizes $600, $400 and $200 for top three stories More
info http://www.antigonishreview.com/contest.html June 30: Arc Poem of
the Year contest Enter
up to 4 poems Fee:
$21 Prizes:
$1000, $750 and $500 for top 3 poems More
info http://www.arcpoetry.ca/contests/ July 1: Federation of BC
Writers literary competition Genres
fiction Maximum
length 2500 words Fee
$15 for federation members, $20 for non-members Prizes
$500, $300 and $150 for top three stories Notes
Winners announced in September 2005 More
info http://bcwriters.com/literarywrites/ July 1: This Magazine Great Canadian Literary Hunt Genres
fiction and poetry More
info http://www.thismagazine.ca/fictionandpoetry/ September 8: Genres
fiction, non-fiction, poetry Maximum
length 5,000 words (fiction), 1500 words (non-fiction) Fee $15 per story Prizes $1000 Notes winners informed October 15 More info http://siwc.ca/contest/guidelines.php October 1: Zoetrope
All-Story Short Fiction Contest (US) Maximum
length 5,000 words Fee $15 US per story Prizes $1000, $500 and $250 for top three stories Notes winners announced December 1 on the web site More info http://www.all-story.com/contests.cgi October
15: Geist Literal Literary Postcard Short Story Contest Maximum length 500 words Prizes First prize $500; top three stories
published in Geist Fee $20 for first entry; $5 for each additional
entry More info http://www.geist.com//contest.php October:
Maximum
length fiction 1500 words; poetry 500 words Fee
$10/entry Prizes $350 first prize, $250 second prize, plus
publication in SubTERRAIN More
info http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/index.htm Nov 3: Writers Union Short Prose Competition for
Developing Writers Genres
fiction and non-fiction Maximum
length 2500 words Fee
$25 per entry Prizes $2500 in prize money Notes writers must not be published in book form
and not have contract with a publisher More info http://www.writersunion.ca/spc.html Nov 15: CBC literary competition Genres
travel, fiction and poetry (up to 2500 words) Fee
$20/entry Prizes
first prize $6,000, second prize, $4,000 More
info http://www.cbc.ca/literaryawards/english/index.html Nov 30: Prairie Fire Genres:
poetry (up to 3 poems), fiction (up to 15,000 words), creative non-fiction
(up to 5,000 words) Fee:
$27 Prizes:
$1,000 (first), $500 (second), $250 (third) More info: http://www.prairiefire.mb.ca/contests.html Recent winners Susan Olding,
non-fiction, Brenda Leifso, poetry (2004) Dec 31: Maximum
length 2500 words Fee
$5 More
info http://www.thestar.com (click on
Contests) Dec 31: Fiddlehead
Annual Writing Contest Genres: poetry (up to 5 poems), fiction
(up to 25 pages, 1 story) Fee: $24 Prizes: $1000 for fiction and poetry,
two $100 runners-up More info: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Fiddlehead/contest.html |
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