'Tis the season for the Ottawa Public Library's Awesome Author Contest! Local writers aged 9-17 have a couple of months to shine up their best poems and stories for the 2016 competition. If your work is already shiny, you can enter it right now. If you want some professional help in polishing your words -- or digging up words… Continue reading Ottawa’s Awesome Authors Contest
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Monday Markets: Upcoming Writing Contests and Calls for Submission
Looking for somewhere to submit your work? Fishing for a topic for your next story? Here are a few suggestions and opportunities coming up in September and October 2015. For Teachers and Students: The Ocean Trash Write-Away Short Fiction Contest: Writers under 25 are invited to envision solutions to the problem of ocean trash for… Continue reading Monday Markets: Upcoming Writing Contests and Calls for Submission
Spring Contests for Writers
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
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
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