Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
The Humber Literary Review (HLR) and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society (CNFC) have joined forces to bring you a Canada-wide creative nonfiction contest.
We want your clever, surprising and dizzying reversals––be it through character, plot or formal elements!
We’re looking for pieces about hauntings, and welcome or unwelcome visitations from beyond the grave.
We seek to push the bounds of modern writing, and find a haven in the oddities that result from expanding one's craft
All work should reflect the theme of History as you interpret it.
We are wide open to weirdness and we want to have fun — invite us into your labyrinth.
Essays, humor, satire, personal experience, and features on topics relating to women are our primary editorial focus.
Ev0king the Question: Why do you think cats have historically been the most popular familiar for Western witches?
How does being in profound relation to place change everything between, around and about us?
If a wildflower could write a poem, what would they have to share? What would they say?
We prefer articles rooted in the author’s own experiences of the divine and poems that use image and metaphor to recreate an experience for the reader
We favour works that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre.
The Short Grain Contest celebrates poetry and fiction from across Canada and Internationally.
Seeking engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging writing.
Dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard.
Mothers have a lot to say about mothering. Trust us, we know. We’re dedicating the month of May to telling those motherhood stories.
We like work that asks questions, explores mystery, and seeks to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and those whose voices have been silenced.
The leisure principle has rendered the world a pleasure garden – for those who can afford it – of interminable excess and consumption without end. We’re looking for work that addresses the question of how we came to cede so much, and at such a price, just to amuse ourselves to death.
We want work that asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, and is forward thinking.
Borders, streets, cities, monuments, memories. Tell me your dreams and I will tell you mine.