I am back after a 2-month blogging break, and I'm bringing the best intentions of posting weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, or whenever I remember from this point onward. (To those who wonder, "If I lay off blogging and Facebook for 2 months, will I free up enough time to write a masterpiece?" my guess is "No, but you… Continue reading Spring Contests for Writers
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Writing Contests with Looming Deadlines
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 for Canadian Youth in one of two age categories: junior (grades 7-9)… Continue reading Writing Contests with Looming Deadlines
Be a Bard: CBC’s Shakespeare Selfie Challenge
Do you have immortal longings in you? Is there no creature loves you? Could you be bounded in a nutshell and count yourself a king of infinite space were it not that you have bad dreams? Now's your chance to tell all. To celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday this month, CBC Canada Writes is hosting a "Shakespeare… Continue reading Be a Bard: CBC’s Shakespeare Selfie Challenge
Quebec Writing Competition
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 for Quebec writers. And if you think it's unfair that Quebec… Continue reading Quebec Writing Competition
Emerging Writer Opportunities
Knock knock. Who's there? Opportunity. Opportunity who? It's not a joke. Opportunity is walking away shaking its head right now. Here are a few timely contests for emerging Canadian writers bold enough to try their luck. The Writers' Union Short Prose Competition. Check it out here. It's open to all Canadian writers who do NOT have book-length publications. There… Continue reading Emerging Writer Opportunities
Catherine Austen 