Creative Writing
Posted on January 16, 2017 by Catherine Austen
I wrote short stories in my youth and published a dozen in Canadian literary journals–long defunct ones like Writ and Quarry, and still-going-strong ones like The Windsor Review and The New Quarterly (it really was a new quarterly back then). Though I’ve kept up… Continue Reading “Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (A-E)”
Posted on January 9, 2015 by Catherine Austen
Attention young writers! The Ottawa Public Library’s annual Awesome Authors contest is now accepting poems and stories from Ottawa-area youth aged 9-17. Deadline February 16th. Not in Ottawa? No worries. If you’ve got your act together RIGHT NOW, you can enter the Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest… Continue Reading “Writing Contests with Looming Deadlines”
Category: authors, contests, writing, young writersTags: children's writing, essay contest, poetry, short stories, writing contests
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Catherine Austen
If you are a writer in Quebec, you have about ten days left to submit your short prose masterpiece to this year’s Quebec Writing Competition, brought to you by the CBC and its exceptional provincial partners. (It’s like the regular CBC short story competition, but just… Continue Reading “Quebec Writing Competition”
Category: writers' markets, writingTags: national poetry month, QWC, short stories, writing contests