Brucedale is a small press with a cool contest

The Brucedale Press

Box 2259
Port Elgin, Ontario N0H 2C0

https://www.brucedalepress.ca/  

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The Brucedale Press is a small independent publisher that produces books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, historical, and pictorial works with a strong focus on the Queen's Bush (the area between Waterloo County and Lake Huron) and the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. Brucedale publishes books both for children (up to grade 5) and adults. All books must be from Canadian authors and illustrators. 

Unless responding to an invitation to submit, query first by Canada Post with outline and sample chapter for book-length manuscripts. Send full manuscript for work intended for children. A brief resume of your writing efforts and successes is always of interest, and may bring future invitations, even if your present offering is not accepted for publication.

See Brucedale’s full submission guidelines here.

Brucedale also publishes The Leaf, a twice-yearly literary journal. The Leaf presents poetry, short fiction, reviews, essay, and author profiles from the Bruce Peninsula & Queen's Bush, traditional territory of the Saugeen Anishinaabek. Read more about The Leaf here.

Finally, Brucedale holds one of the coolest writing contests in Canada – their annual Acrostic Contest, which requires you to write a story in 26 sentences. For this year, you must begin with the phrase: X-rays cannot show… Then use 25 more sentences to tell your story, going through the alphabet in reverse order. So your second sentence begins with a W, and so on. After A, then a sentence beginning with Z, and ending your story with a sentence that begins with Y.

Entry fee is $5 for each story. First prize: 25% of the entry fees; second prize: 15% of the entry fees; third prize: 10% of the entry fees. The judge may award up to three honorable mentions. Authors of all published stories will receive a one-year subscription (two issues) of The Leaf.

Deadline: You must submit by mail and your entry must arrive by January 31, 2025

See the full contest guidelines here.

Note: If you’re interested in meeting an agent and in getting published, don’t miss our upcoming “How to Get Published” workshop. Details here.

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