Quebec Writing Competition open for entries
The annual Quebec Writing Competition, supported by Maisonneuve and CBC Canada Writes, is accepting submissions for its 2013 awards. Entries may be fiction or non-fiction, previously unpublished, with a maximum of 1200 words. Participation is limited to residents of Quebec. The submission deadline is May 1.
The first-prize winner will receive a cash prize of $1500, have their work published in Maisonneuve and broadcast on CBC Radio’s Cinq à Six; the second-prize winner will receive $1000, have their work published on Maisonneuve‘s website and broadcast on CBC.
There will also be one Readers’s Choice winner who will receive $300 and a broadcast of their work. All three winners will be published in a CBC Canada Writes anthology.
The winners will be announced at the QWF Literary Awards Gala in November, 2013.
Vote for your favourite British magazine cover
The United Kingdom’s Professional Publisher’s Association is marking its 100th anniversary with a magazine covers contest open to public vote.
While there are only ten finalists from which to choose (rather disappointing, considering the thousands of titles and hundreds of thousands of magazine issues that have been published since 1913), the small selection is spread across generations and broad topics, from the world wars to technology, from the first issue of Cosmo to the legacies of Churchill, Chernobyl and Darth Vader.
This blogger was drawn to the 1941 Harper’s Bazaar cover featuring plump, almost Atari-like bombs falling around St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a brilliant yellow streak of fabric drawing the eye up through a blood-red bow to the helmeted dress form. The absence of cover lines makes a lasting impact, and the inherent nostalgia of the price line (“two shillings and sixpence”) probably swayed me, too. A magazine cover for its time and all time. (Or so says one voice. What do you think?)
Click here to view the finalists and vote. Voting closes on the distant date of September 30, 2013, and the winner will be announced on November 21, the exact one-hundred-year anniversary of PPA’s establishment.
{Tip o’ the hat: Canadian Magazines blog}
Maisonneuve Writing Contest seeks Fables & Parables
[This post has been updated] Maisonneuve magazine — Canada’s Magazine of the Year — is presenting its second-annual genre fiction writing contest. This year’s theme is Fables & Parables.
The winner will receive a $300 prize and publication in the award-winning magazine; two runners up will receive $100 each and publication online.
From the contest creators:
Send us your finest original interpretations of these ancient storytelling traditions! Moral lessons, animals, mythical creatures—you know the deal. You could be the next Aesop!
The entry fee is $25 and includes a subscription to the quarterly magazine of arts, opinion and ideas. Word limit: 1200 words. Deadline March 31, 2013 April 8, 2013.
More info at maisonneuve.org.
Related posts:
Your Guide to Winter/Spring 2013 Magazine Writing Contests
Get familiar with Maisonneuve: Canada’s Magazine of the Year
Maisonneuve Redesign
Alberta Views Magazine presents Photography Contest
Alberta Views, the political and social affairs monthly which was named Canada’s Magazine of the Year for 2008, is looking for a new view of the province, and thus presenting a Photography Contest in which the winner will receive $1000 and publication in the magazine.
The deadline for entries is February 28, 2013.
One entry costs $30 and includes a one-year subscription to the magazine (subsequent entries cost $15, and include subscriptions you can offer your friends and family).
Check out Alberta Views for all the details.
Your Guide to Winter/Spring 2013 Magazine Writing Contests
[This post has been updated] Do these long, dark, cold Canadian winters leave you shivering with creative unrest?
If winter teases out your inner Mowat, Mordechai or Munro, you’re probably searching for a creative outlet in the form of a Canadian magazine writing contest, such as these great offerings from some of Canada’s best literary periodicals and competitions.
CBC Canada Writes Creative Non-Fiction Prize
Section: Non-fiction (1200-1500 words)
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Prize: $6000 + publication in enRoute + Banff Centre residency (1st); $1000 each to 4 runners up
Entry Fee: $25
Details:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/literaryprizes/nonfiction/index.html
Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest
Section: Very short fiction or non-fiction (500 words)
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Prize: $500 (1st); $250 (2nd); $150 (3rd); publication
Entry Fee: $20; includes subscription
Details: http://www.geist.com/articles/postcard-contest/
Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Contest
Section: Poetry
Deadline: February 1, 2013
Prize: $5000
Entry Fee: $32; includes subscription
Details: http://arcpoetry.ca/2012/11/29/poem-of-the-year-contest-2/
The New Quarterly Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest
Section: Poetry
Deadline: February 28, 2013
Prize: $1000 + publication (1st); other prizes for runners up
Entry Fee: $40 (for first 2 poems; $5 each for additional); includes subscription
Details: http://www.tnq.ca/contests
Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition
Section: Non-fiction
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Prize: $2500 + assistance with publication
Entry Fee: $29
Details: http://www.writersunion.ca/short-prose
The New Quarterly Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest
Section: Non-fiction
Deadline: March 28, 2013
Prize: $1000 + publication
Entry Fee: $40; includes subscription
Details: http://www.tnq.ca/contests
Narrative Magazine Winter 2013 Short Story Contest
Sections: Non-fiction and Fiction
Deadline: March 31, 2013
Prize: $2,500 (1st); $1000 (2nd); $500 (3rd); $100 (finalist)
Entry Fee: $22; includes 3 months access to Narrative Backstage
Details: http://narrativemagazine.com/node/194590
Notes: Entries may be short fiction or literary nonfiction, including essays, memoirs, or any other form of unpublished manuscript, with a word limit of 15,000. All are judged in the same pool.
Maisonneuve Genre Fiction Contest: Fables & Parables
Sections: Short fiction (1200 words)
Deadline: March 31, 2013
Prize: $300 + publication (1st prize); $100 + publication (each of 2 runners up)
Entry Fee: $25 (includes subscription)
Details: http://maisonneuve.org/contest/maisonneuves-genre-fiction-contest-fables-and-para/
Grain magazine Short Grain Writing Contest
Sections: Fiction; Poetry
Deadline: April 1, 2013 April 8, 2013
Prize: $1000 (1st); $750 (2nd); $500 (3rd)
Entry Fee: $35; includes subscription
Details: http://www.grainmagazine.ca/contest.html
Event magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest
Section: Non-fiction
Deadline: April 15, 2013
Prize: $1500 in total cash prizes
Entry Fee: $34.95; includes subscription
Details: http://eventmags.com/contest-3/
Quebec Writing Competition
Section: Fiction or Non-fiction
Deadline: May 1, 2013
Prize: $1500, publication in Maisonneuve magazine, broadcast on CBC (1st); $1000 (2nd); $300 reader’s choice award
Entry Fee: $15
Details: https://qwf.submittable.com/submit
The New Quarterly Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award
Section: Fiction
Deadline: May 28, 2013
Prize: $1000 + publication
Entry Fee: $40; includes subscription
Details: http://www.tnq.ca/contests
Did we miss one? Send us a note or grab us on Twitter @MagAwards.
Find more awards, prizes and contests for magazine journalism on the Industry Resources page of the National Magazine Awards Foundation website, or check out the Awards and Contests pages of this blog, including:
Your Guide to Summer Magazine Writing Contests
Your Guide to Fall Magazine Writing Contests
Keep writing. Keep reading. Love magazines!
Deadline approaches for the Writers’ Trust Emerging Poet Award
January 30 is the deadline for submissions to the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
The Poetry Prize is awarded to a young (under 35) Canadian poet, previously published in a magazine or anthology, but unpublished in book form.
The grand prize includes $5000, while two honourable mentions will receive $1000.
Submissions must consist of a manuscript of unpublished poetry, 5-10 pages in length.
Full details at the Writers’ Trust of Canada website. Deadline January 30, 2013.
National Reading Campaign kicks off with Twitter contest
Launching today, the National Reading Campaign is encouraging Canadians to tell each other about what they’re reading right now–books, magazines, poems and more–for a chance to win one of ten Kobo eReaders preloaded with a bunch of great books.
From now until December 31, anyone who tweets their current reading habits to @readingcampaign with the hashtag #WhatDidYouReadToday will be entered to win one of the prizes.
See what your National Magazine Awards blogger-tweeter is reading at @NatMagAwards. And if you’re reading magazines, share it with us, too!
Here’s a tip: Check out the NMA Archives for award-winning magazine content. Or download our eBook app.
Happy reading!
NMA Winner Patrick Lane to judge Freefall Writing Contest
Patrick Lane
Two-time National Magazine Award-winning author and poet Patrick Lane will serve as the guest judge for the 2012 FreeFall Magazine annual prose and poetry writing contest.
The competition is open to submissions in poetry and short fiction, with $1100 in prize money to be awarded, including $300 to the winners in each category.
The deadline for entries is December 31, 2012.
Patrick Lane won 2 National Magazine Awards for his poetry in Border Crossings and Canadian Forum, and the most recent of his 20 books of fiction, non-fiction, literary criticism and poetry is titled The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane (Harbour Publishing).
Check out other magazine writing contests from our ongoing series.
Related post: Poetry and Pain, as told by NMA Winner Patrick Lane
Deadline approaches for The Walrus-CIC long-form contest
The long-form, general interest magazine The Walrus magazine (winner of 93 National Magazine Awards since 2003) has teamed up with the Canadian International Council to support a competition for the best pitch of an internationally focused, long-form journalism story.
The winner will develop the pitch with a Walrus editor into an investigative article of 5000-7500 words, to be published by the magazine next year. And the cash prize is $7500.
The competition is open to graduate students, journalists, academics, former public policy figures, or members of NGO and business communities. It has two objectives:
- to promote an investigative, reported, or analytic article of the highest quality by a Canadian or resident of Canada who is involved in international research;
- to raise the profile of a salient issue in international political affairs within Canada and worldwide.
Submissions deadline is October 26, 2012.
Guidelines and more information at the CIC website.
Your Guide to Fall Magazine Writing Contests
[This post has been updated]
Autumn, for many, is a fertile time of mind. Anticipating that, many of Canada’s great literary magazines and organizations are hosting creative writing contests for emerging journalists and literary artists.
Building on our Guide to Summer Writing Contests we present those competitions open to the general public coming up this fall. We also carry an exhaustive list of awards, contests, funding and other opportunities in the Professional Resources section of our website. If we missed one, let us know.
The Walrus | CIC International Long-Form Competition
Sections: Non-fiction
Deadline: October 26, 2012
Prize: $7500 + publication
Entry Fee: None
Details: http://www.opencanada.org/competition/
Notes: Entrants submit a detailed pitch for an investigative story with an international focus; the winner will work with a Walrus editor to develop and publish the piece.
CBC Canada Writes Short Story Prize
Sections: Short fiction
Deadline: November 1, 2012
Prize: $6000 + publication in enRoute + Banff centre residency (winner); $1000 to each of 4 runners-up
Entry Fee: $25
Details: http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/literaryprizes/shortstory/
Notes: CBC Canada Writes also hosts Creative Non-fiction and Poetry competitions with deadlines in 2013. Details to come.
The Malahat Review Open Season Awards
Sections: Fiction; Poetry; Creative non-fiction
Deadline: November 1, 2012
Prize: $1000 to the winner in each section + publication
Entry Fee: $35 (includes subscription)
Details: http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/contests/open_season/info.html
Amprosia | WCDR Prose Competition
Sections: Creative non-fiction
Deadline: November 1, 2012
Prize: $1000 (1st); $400 (2nd); $200 (3rd); publication in anthology
Entry Fee: $20
Details: http://wcdr.ca/wcdr/2012-amprosia-the-wcdr-prose-competition/
Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition
Sections: Fiction; Non-fiction
Deadline: November 3, 2012
Prize: $2500; assistance with publication
Entry Fee: $29
Details: http://www.writersunion.ca/short-prose
PRISM International Creative Writing Contests
Sections: Literary non-fiction; Short fiction; Poetry
Deadline: November 28, 2012 (non-fiction); January 25, 2013 (fiction & poetry)
Prize: $1500 (1st); $300 (2nd); $200 (3rd); publication in magazine
Entry Fee: $35 (includes subscription)
Details: http://prismmagazine.ca/contests/
Prairie Fire Creative Writing Contests
Sections: Creative non-fiction; Short fiction; Poetry
Deadline: November 30, 2012
Prize: $1250 (1st); $500 (2nd); $250 (3rd); publication in magazine
Entry Fee: $32 (includes subscription)
Details: http://prairiefire.ca/contests.html
Briarpatch Creative Writing Contest
Sections: Creative non-fiction
Deadline: December 1, 2012
Prize: $750 in total prizes
Entry Fee: $25 (includes subscription)
Details: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/announcements/view/creative-writing-contest
The Fiddlehead 22nd annual Literary Contest
Sections: Poetry; Fiction
Deadline: December 1, 2012
Prize: $2000 (winner); $200 each for 2 runners-up; publication in magazine
Entry Fee: $30 (includes subscription)
Details: http://www.thefiddlehead.ca/FHcontest.html
FreeFall magazine Poetry and Prose Contest
Sections: Poetry; Fiction
Deadline: December 31, 2012
Prize: $300 (winner); $150 (2nd); $75 (3rd); publication
Entry Fee: $21 (includes subscription)
Details: http://www.freefallmagazine.ca/contest.html
Alberta Literary Awards
Sections: Travel Writing (unpublished); Essays (unpublished); Short Fiction (published); Non-fiction (published); plus book awards
Deadline: December 31, 2012
Prize: $700 (winner in each section)
Entry Fee: $25
Details: http://www.writersguild.ab.ca/Alberta-Literary-Awards.asp
Other contests on the horizon for 2013:
The New Quarterly literary contests
CBC Canada Writes non-fiction & poetry contests
Grain magazine Short Grain writing contests
Event magazine non-fiction contest
Writers Union of Canada various contests
Geist magazine various contests
Arc Poetry Magazine various contests
Know of other literary contests coming up this fall/winter? Leave a comment on this blog or holler at us: staff [at] magazine-awards.com or twitter.com/natmagawards.
Cottage Life wants your photos (and your kids’ photos, too)
Venerable Cottage Life magazine is holding a series of photography contests this summer, looking for the most exquisite images from your cottage life.
Categories include Action, Life at the Cottage, Landscapes & Nature, and Photos by Kids (15 and under).
One grand prize winner and first-, second- and third-place winners in each category will receive various prizes courtesy of Nikon and Lowepro, plus publication in the Winter 2012-2013 issue of Cottage Life.
The deadline for entries is September 10. Get more contest details here.
Up Here magazine hosts photography contest
Going north this summer? Really, really north? Then hone your photography skills and consider entering Up Here magazine’s summer 2012 photo contest.
There are 4 categories (Science & Nature; People & History; Travel & Adventure; Arts & Culture) and the grand prize is an iPad. Winners (it’s unclear how many) will also be published in the October 2012 issue of Up Here, Canada’s premier outdoor magazine for the north (and a former winner of the National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year).
The deadline for entries is September 1. Photographs must be taken in Canada’s north (by which they probably mean Nunavut, the Northwest Territories or the Yukon).
Your Guide to Summer Magazine Writing Contests
Summer is here and so are the writing contests. Quite a number of great magazines are hosting contests, awards and other opportunities for writers new and seasoned. Naturally, the chance of winning should not be your sole motivation; just by entering you’ll acquaint yourself with (and probably get a subscription to) a great magazine, plus you’ll enjoy the satisfaction of having put your hard work, creativity and talent out into the world.
Matrix Magazine: LitPop Awards
Sections: Poetry; Fiction; Creative Nonfiction
Deadline: July 1, 2012
Prize: Round-trip ticket and accommodation to POP Montreal Festival in September; publication in Matrix
Entry Fee: $25
Details: http://www.matrixmagazine.org/litpop/
This Magazine: Great Canadian Literary Hunt
Sections: Fiction; Poetry; Creative Nonfiction
Deadline: July 31, 2012
Prize: $750 plus publication for winners; prize packs for second and third place
Entry Fee: $25 (includes subscription)
Details: http://this.org/contribute/great-canadian-literary-hunt/
Also: This Mag editor talks about Creative Nonfiction and the workshops included with this year’s GCLH.
The Walrus: Poetry Prize
Sections: Poetry, juried prize and people’s choice prize
Deadline: July 31, 2012
Prize: $5000 and publication (juried winner); $1000 (people’s choice winner)
Entry Fee: $25 (includes subscription)
Details: http://walrusmagazine.com/poetryprize/
Antigonish Review: Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize & Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest
Sections: Poetry; Fiction
Deadline: July 31, 2012 (Fiction); August 31, 2012 (Poetry)
Prize: $600 (first); $400 (second); $200 (third); publication
Entry Fee: $25 (includes subscription)
Details: http://www.antigonishreview.com/
Malahat Review: Constance Rooke Nonfiction Prize
Sections: Creative Nonfiction
Deadline: August 1, 2012
Prize: Publication in Malahat Review; interview with winning author
Entry Fee: $35 (includes subscription)
Details: http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/contests/creative_non-fiction_prize/info.html
Also: Malahat Review has a number of writing contests throughout the year
Geist: Erasure Poetry Contest
Sections: Poetry (in an unusual way)
Deadline: August 1, 2012
Prize: $600 (first); $250 (second); $150 (third); publication in Geist; prize packs for HM
Entry Fee: $20 (includes subscription)
Details: http://www.geist.com/articles/erasure
Other contests, further on the horizon for 2012 and 2013:
PRISM International: Writing contests
Prairie Fire: Writing contests
Fiddlehead: Literary contests
WCDR Amprosia prose competition
CBC Literary Prizes
The New Quarterly: Writing contests
Grain: Writing contests
Event Magazine: Writing contests
Writers Union of Canada Awards
