$300 for greeting card poems; short stories wanted for contest; prose, poetry, essays, music reviews and travel wanted

Entries are invited for the Tagore-O.Henry Short Story Contest 2014. Prize: $1000. Stories must be original “with a punch at the end.” Length: 1,500 words max. Entry fee: $10.

Deadline: November 19, 2014.

Blue Mountain Arts is interested in reviewing writings suitable for publication on greeting cards. Looking for highly original and creative submissions on friendship, family, special occasions, positive living, and other topics one person might want to share with another person. Submissions may also be considered for inclusion in book anthologies.

Pays $300 per poem for all rights to publish it on a greeting card and $50 if the poem is used only in an anthology. Request writer’s guidelines (which include contact/submission information) by sending a blank e-mail to writings@sps.com with “Send Me Guidelines” in the subject line.

Online literary magazine The Steel Chisel welcomes prose and poetry submissions from Canadian writers.

Deadline: Rolling, on 6th of the month. Guidelines here. 

Trueblue Magazine (BC) is an independent, on-line magazine that believes in free and honest expression. Currently accepting submissions for their Weekly Issues (essays, music reviews, arts, culture, recreation, travel).

Deadline ongoing. Submit your piece or your pitch here.

See Brian Henry’s schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Collingwood, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara on the Lake, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Stouffville, Sudbury, Toronto, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.