Contest

Fiction and Poetry Writing Competition open to all Canadian authors with $700 in prizes and the chance to work with a professional editor and be published in an annual anthology!

​There is no specific theme for the current contest, so let your imagination run wild.

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life” - and he was right. And change comes in many shapes and forms, some planned but some unplanned and totally unexpected.

Events happen, often beyond our control, leading us to change our views. Of ourselves, of life, of others, irrevocably. Sometimes for the better. Sadly, sometimes for the worse. So, ‘change’ is a key word in everyday life.

Seeking poems that escape the confines of traditional nature writing.

It can be as grand as the moon or as mundane as the driveway, we just want to be there!

For this poetry contest, we are calling for poetry that engages with the experience of being in bodies.

So much fun stuff happened over a century of progress; have fun with it.

We latch onto novel language and images, skilled awareness of sound, visceral reactions. We want to remember your lines, days later. We want to be surprised and envious.

For this year's contest, we want submitters to go wild--or domesticated, or sentient, or whatever other form of beastly you're feeling. In other words: we're seeking work from any and all genres that involves non-human living creatures in some way, shape, or form. 

Water has the power to change landscapes, it can soothe and frighten us, but one thing is for sure, we can’t live without it.

For this contest, write a creative, compelling, well-crafted story between 1,000 and 5,000 words long in which some kind of vehicle plays an important role.

Submit 3 pieces of flash fiction of up to 1,500 words each OR a story of up to 4,000 words. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.

Submit 3 pieces of flash nonfiction of up to 1,500 words each OR an essay of up to 4,000 words. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.

Submit 1-3 poems. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.

The winning stories are featured in an anthology edition and the winning and shortlisted writers receive cash prizes.

What if the big bad wolf was a person who had a past? Or what if Snow White wasn’t so perfect on paper? 

Our simple definition for sense of place is: figuring out the reality of where you are, and how you perceive that reality, and what your perception of that reality means to you.

Whether you draw inspiration from folklore, sci-fi, the natural world, lived experiences, or the abstract, we’re desperate to know: what do(es) creatures conjure up for you? 

We’re looking for poems rich and robust in language, technique, and form that pay homage to the natural world and all of the small marvels that occur in nature. We’re also interested in poems that observe geography and the landscape of home.