I'm resurrecting my old list of Young Writers' Markets because there are so many young writers who are not eligible to submit to the Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest. What are they to do with their awesome stories, poems, and comics? Well... If you are a young writer in Canada with no… Continue reading Young Writers’ Markets
The Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest is back! Young writers of the nation's capital, get to work on your poems, short stories, and comics. You could win publication, glory, cold hard cash! The contest opened on January 10th and it closes on February 24th. Learn all the details from the Awesome Authors… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2023 is on!
Updated February 2023 (with links to a new children's story, "Balloon Party," a fresh take on "Stone Soup" published on the Blue Met website). Back to the 2022 post....I'm resurrecting my old list of Canadian litmags because it's just so handy for short story writers to know the word limits at a glance. Since I'm… Continue reading Stories and Litmags
Summer 2022 update: Winners of this year's Awesome Authors contest are announced here on the Ottawa Public Library's YouTube channel. 🙂 *Original Post: The Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest is back! Young writers of the nation's capital, get to work on your poems, short stories, and comics. You could win publication, glory,… Continue reading Awesome Authors 2022 is on!
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 with reading lit mags all my life, I only recently resumed… Continue reading Canadian Literary Short Fiction Markets (A-E)
Catherine Austen 