Great-West Life and London Life recently contributed $25,000 to the Frye Festival in Moncton, NB. Through their national corporate citizenship program, the companies have contributed a total of $125,000 over the past five years as sponsors of the Frye Festival’s annual Great-West Life and London Life Writing Contest for high school students and the Frye… Continue Reading
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2012 Far Horizons Award for Poetry Call for Entries
The Malahat Review invites emerging poets from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter the Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Eligible poets have yet to publish their poetry in book form (a book of poetry is defined to have a length of 48 pages or more). One prize of $1000 (CAD) is awarded. Poets… Continue Reading
Frye Festival 24-Hour Playwriting Competition Starts Today
The Frye Festival is inviting amateur and established playwrights to take part in a unique 24-hour competition. From 4 pm today to 4 pm tomorrow, individuals will have the chance to prove their writing skills as they write a short play about Northrop Frye and/or his ideas. Participants will be fed, caffeinated and encouraged, and… Continue Reading
Win a Fishing Trip for Two at Larry’s Gulch
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton is pleased to offer a chance to win a fishing trip for two at Larry’s Gulch on the beautiful Restigouche River near Kedgwick, New Brunswick. Politicians, celebrities and professional athletes, such as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, President George H. W. Bush and late baseball player, Ted Williams, have all… Continue Reading
Summit Studios Story Contest
At Summit Studios, we like to think that we take humour seriously. So seriously, in fact, that we’ve decided to organize another story contest with the hope that you will write to us with your funniest and most outrageous tales of misadventure. How to encourage you? How about the $3,000 in cash prizes we’re giving… Continue Reading
Book Winners Announced
Recently Bread ‘n Molasses magazine held two different contests where winners were awarded a signed copy of Doug Underhill’s most recent book, Salmon Country. Before the holidays we asked our followers on Facebook and Twitter to sign up for our email updates and we would pick one winner from all our online subscribers. Congratulations to… Continue Reading
Emerging Writers’ Contest
Ploughshares is pleased to announce that in 2012 the Emerging Writer’s Contest is expanding to include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The winner in each genre will be awarded $1,000. Login to our submission manager here to submit. (https://www2.pshares.org/submit/) SIGN UP to get contest alerts and updates. Since 1971, Ploughshares has been committed to promoting the… Continue Reading
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth 2012
The League of Canadian Poets, a national not-for-profit poetry organization founded in 1966, invites Canadian youth to participate in its Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth. 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… Continue Reading
Fiddlehead Literary Contest
The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal 21st Annual Literary Contest $1,500 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry $500 Each for Two Honourable Mentions Entries must be original and unpublished elsewhere. No simultaneous submissions. Do not put your name and address on your manuscript. Include a cover page that has on it the entry’s title(s), the… Continue Reading
Win Author Signed Book!
With our recent shift of focus back to our online roots we’ve promised more contests, more fun, and so here we go! One of our lucky subscribers to our weekly online email will win an autographed copy of Miramichi author Doug Underhill’s most recent book, Salmon Country. Entering is easy! All you have to do… Continue Reading
