Toronto
Star free Short Story Contest
$8,000 in
prizes. No entry fee. Maximum 2,500 words
Three prizes will be awarded:
First Prize: $5,000,
plus the tuition fee for The Humber School for Writers 2016 Correspondence
Program in Creative Writing. Approximate retail value: $3,000.
Second Prize: $2,000.
Third Prize: $1,000.
Dear
Brian,
Love
is strange, love is beautiful, love is dangerous...
I'm
one of the editors of a new literary website called Don't Talk to Me About Love. I'm sending this letter to you personally in the hopes
that you will peruse our site and spread the word to fellow writers and friends
about our debut contest, offering $1,000.00 each in fiction, non-fiction and
poetry for pieces about love. (Note that the contest deadline is Valentine’s Day!)
Best Regards,
SamHiyate
P.S. If you enjoy the site, please subscribe
to the website. (It's free.) You can also like us on Facebook or tweet about
us. Happy New Year!
Note: Winning
entries also receive a critique from The
Rights Factory and both winners and honorable
mentions will be published on Don’t Talk
to Me About Love. Entry fee is $20. Full contest details here.
Don’t Talk
to Me About Love also accepts regular submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry
and artwork and pays $50, but there is a $3 admin fee for submissions. Full
details here.
Hello, Brian.
Might
you list the Spadina Literary Review, our online
mag which has been publishing since 2011?
Here
are our details:
The Spadina Literary Review is
published three times yearly, online only. We are interested in short
fiction and short non-fiction (500 – 3,500 words), as well as reviews of
nonfiction books. We are interested in Toronto-based civic issues. We run
one or two poems each issue. No payment at this time. We’re always open
for material. Submit by email to: spadlit@gmail.com
Thanks
for taking the time, and thanks for any help you can give.
Ian Allaby
Editor-publisher
Writers'
Federation of New Brunswick annual Writing Competition
Details: The competition awards $2,600 in cash prizes. It
is open to all New Brunswick residents and members of the Writers’ Federation
of New Brunswick.
The prize
purse includes the David Adams Richards Prize, awarded for a collection of
short stories, a novella, or a substantial part of a longer novel.
The Writing Competition
recognizes outstanding work in other genres through the Douglas Kyle Memorial
Prize for short fiction, the
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for poetry manuscripts, the Dawn Watson Memorial Prize
for a single poem, and the Fog Lit Books for Young People Prize.
The
Federation also offers prizes in creative non-fiction categories. Writers of
ages 13 to 18 can enter their poems or stories into the Sheree Fitch Prize
category for teen writers.
Entry fee
is $35.
Entries must be postmarked by February 29,
2016. Contest guidelines and entry
details here.
This contest welcomes published and unpublished
work. Your poem may have up to 250 lines.
Deadline:
April 1.
$2,250 in prizes, including a top prize of
$1,000. There is no submission fee.
Submissions here.
See Brian Henry’s schedule here, including
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Park, Alton, Barrie,
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Don't ever miss a post on Quick Brown Fox. Fill in your email in the box to the right under my bio, and get each post delivered to your Inbox. Also, if you’re not yet on my newsletter, send me an email, including your locale, to: brianhenry@sympatico.ca ~ Brian
can any one participate in this contest .
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