Contest

100 words about 5 minutes of your life, on the theme of AWAY. Interpret any way you’d like.

The prize is only open to short fiction, but it can be in any fiction genre and you may write about any subject you wish.

“Changing My Mind,” might refer to trying to change the minds of others, something you changed your mind about, or a subject you wish you could look at differently.

Submit a story that responds to or somehow reflects the theme “Endings.”

We carry no expectations for the content or tone of submissions.

What lies underneath the weight of regret?

To make a long story short: we want your stories!

The winner of the contest will be awarded $1,000.00 USD

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.