Contests
Geist magazine invites entries for the Jackpine Sonnet Contest. First prize: $500. Entry fee: $10 (includes digital subscription) Deadline: July 1, 2010. Winners will be published in Geist magazine, Poetry Is Dead magazine and the Tyee. More details...
The Writers' Union of Canada is hosting its 2010 Postcard Story Competition. Grand prize: $500. Accepting fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and prose. Length: 250 words (excluding title). Deadline: February14, 2010. More details...
Memoirs Ink's Elements Writing Contest is accepting entries of short personal essay, creative non-fiction, poemoir or vignette. Theme: Air/wind/space. Deadline: April 2010). Length: 750 words max. Prizes: US$500, US$250, US$125 + publication. Entry fee: US$10 first entry. More details...
SFU's The Writer's Studio and Anvil Press (BC) are looking for original, book-length manuscripts (one winner each in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry), by emerging Canadian writers who have not previously published a book. Entry fee: $55. Deadline: May 31, 2010. More details...
Entries of memoirs, personal essays, and creative non-fiction stories are invited for the Memoirs, Ink. Annual Personal Essay Contest. Any topic. Length: 3000 words max. First prize: US$1000. Entry fee: US$15. Deadline: August 14, 2010. More details...
Entries of memoirs, personal essays, and creative non-fiction stories are invited for the Memoirs, Ink. Half-Yearly Personal Essay Contest. Any topic. Length: 1500 words max. First prize: US$1000. Entry fee: US$15. Deadline: February 14, 2010. More details...
Entries are invited for the Coffee Shop Author writing contest. Authors must secure the endorsement of their favourite coffee shop then write the bulk of a novel, creative non-fiction work, or short story or poetry collection at the coffee shop between November 2009 and April 2010.
First prize: trip for two to Fernie and tuition in the Fernie Writers Conference. Registration deadline: March 15, 2010. More details...
The Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors Association invites entries for its 11th annual "Ten Stories High" Short Story Competition. First prize: $300. Top ten finalists will be published in an anthology. Ontario residents only. 1000-3000 words. Entry fee: $15. Deadline: March 31, 2010. More details...
The Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors Association invites entries for "The Saving Bannister" 25th Annual Poetry Anthology Contest. Ontario residents only. Prizes: $200, $100 and $50. Winning and selected entries published in an anthology. Entry fee: $15 for 3 poems; $4 each additional poem. Deadline: May 31, 2010. More details...
The Ontario Poetry Society is accepting entries for The Arborealis Prize for Poetry. First prize: $200 + 2 anthology copies. Winners and selected entries to be published in perfect bound anthology. Open theme. Length: 36 lines max. Entry fee: $15 (3 poems). Open to all Cdn. poets. Deadline: June 30, 2010. More details...
The Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW) invites entries for the 2010 Short Story Writing Contest. First prize: $500. Length: 2500 words max. Submissions accepted in English, French, and Italian. Entry fee: $20. Deadline: February 1, 2010. More details...
The Ontario Poetry Society is accepting entries for the "Emerging From the Shadows Poetry Contest". Open to Canadians who have never won First Prize in a Poetry Contest. Prizes for top three poems. Entry fee: 3 poems for $5. Deadline is April 15, 2010. More details...
UPSTREET (US) seeks fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction for its sixth issue. Payment: Copies. Deadline: March 1, 2010. More details...
Writers from Canada and around the world are being invited to enter a monthly short story competition run by Certys Limited (County Durham, England). Prizes: £100 for the monthly competition; £250 for the annual competition. Entry fee: £5. Deadline: ongoing; last day of each month. More details...
