Quebec Writers’ Federation Workshops STARLING VOICE / LYRIC EAR – A POETRY WORKSHOP Mondays, 6 to 8pm — March 1 to April 19 Led by Peter Richardson Full description here:  http://qwf.org/workshops/spring2010/richardson.html   Special intensive Saturday workshops: NON-LINEAR NARRATIVES & MULTI-MEDIA POETICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC LITERATURE Two Saturdays, 10am to 4pm — March 6 and March 13, Led by J. R. Carpenter Full description here: http://qwf.org/workshops/spring2010/carpenter.html PROJECTING ON THE AUDIENCE’S IMAGINATION – A SPOKEN WORD WORKSHOP Two Saturdays, April 10, 11am to 5pm and April 17, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and an evening show Led by Ian Ferrier Full description here: http://qwf.org/workshops/spring2010/ferrier.html

 

Deadline for the May issue: March 15, 2010 carte blanche call for submissions www.carte-blanche.org Montreal-based online literary magazine carte blanche. Send your odes, sonnets, free verse, short stories, memoirs, personal essays, or literary journalism. Under 3500 words. Translations: English translations of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written in French. See www.carte-blanche.org/submissions.html for complete submission guidelines. Please include a bio.

 

15 February to 1 May 2010 Public Lending Right   The Public Lending Right program’s registration period will be open from . Are you registered?   Yes. If you have moved recently, you must update your address with the PLR Commission. Send us your change of address by mail, fax, telephone or e-mail, indicated below.   No. If you are an author, co-author, editor, translator, illustrator, photographer or anthology contributor, you may be eligible for a PLR payment for the service of your books held in Canadian public libraries. For further information, visit our website at www.plr-dpp.ca or contact us by using one of the methods indicated below.   For more info: Public Lending Right Commission / Commission du droit du prêt public, 350 Albert, P.O. Box 1047 / C.P. 1047, Ottawa ON, K1P 5V8. Tel: 1 800 521-5721 or Fax: (613) 566-4418 or E-mail: plr@canadacouncil.ca or www.plr-dpp.ca

 

Deadline: March 1, 2010. ARC POETRY MAGAZINE PRESENTS THE DIANA BREBNER PRIZE FOR OTTAWA WRITERS Prize: $500. Arc invites emerging Ottawa writers to be recognized for their talent through a special award for poets who have not yet been published in book form. The prize is named in honour of the late Diana Brebner, an award-winning, Ottawa-based poet who was devoted to fostering literary talent among new local writers. New deadline:  More info: http://www.arcpoetry.ca/mag/contests/diana_brebner_prize.php

 

Deadline March 15, 2010. carte blanche is looking for submissions for Spring 2010! The Montreal-based online literary magazine, www.carte-blanche.org is looking poets,  from across the country and around the world. We publish high-quality, cutting edge and good old fashioned great writing from both emerging and established writers. New for 2010, carte blanche has been invited to submit fiction for the Journey Prize award. Send us your odes, sonnets, free verse, If it's under 3500 words and well written, we'll consider it. Translations: We accept English translations of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written in French. See www.carte-blanche.org/submissions.html for complete submission guidelines. Please include a bio.

 

Vallum Award for Poetry 2010 Deadline: March 31, 2010 www.vallummag.com    Winners will be published in the Spring / Summer issue of Vallum: contemporary poetry. 1st prize is $750, 2nd and 3rd prizes are $250 each. Honourable Mentions may be selected and published but are not eligible for cash prizes.    ENTRY FEE: $20 CDN for Canadian residents, $20 U.S. for international entrants.  Includes a free one-year subscription to Vallum.   CONTEST RULES:   1. Submit up to six (6) poems of no more than 60 lines each. Do not label your poems with your name or address; instead include a covering letter with all pertinent information.   2. All submissions must arrive through regular mail (no electronic submissions).   3. Poems may be on any theme or subject, but must be original and not previously published.   4. To have your manuscript returned, please enclose a SASE with sufficient Canadian postage or an IRC.   For more information, please visit Vallum‘s website   Please mail your entry to: Vallum: contemporary poetry Attn: contest PO Box 598, Victoria Stn. Montreal, QC H3Z 2Y6

 

Deadline: May 1 Two new contests from The New Quarterly The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest ($1000) The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest ($1000) How to enter: www.tnq.ca/contests/how_to_enter Info about both contests: www.tnq.ca/contests

 

The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry Deadline: May 1, 2010   Authors who have not yet had their poetry published in book format (a book of 48 pages or more) can submit up to three poems per entry, max. 60 lines each.   Fees:    $25 CAD for Canadians             $30 USD for US entries             $35 USD for entries from elsewhere   For more information: http://www.malahatreview.ca/far_horizons_poetry/info.html Enquiries: malahat@uvic.ca

Writer's Studio of SFU’s Writing and Publishing Program   Deadline: May 31, 2010 www.thewritersstudio.ca    The Writer's Studio of the Writing and Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University celebrates its tenth year with the 1st Book Competition, in collaboration with Anvil Press.   They seek original, book-length manuscripts (one winner each in the categories of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry), written in English by emerging Canadian writers who have not previously published a book.   Submissions will be judged anonymously and upon merit alone.  Judges’ decisions are final.  No electronic submissions. Entry fee $55.   Complete entry requirements and entry form are available online.

Poetry is Dead Magazine is looking for submissions for its premier issue. is looking for Canadian poets with a style for the current, relevant, topical, political, smart, hilarious and brilliant. Exactly in that order. The theme for the first issue is death/rebirth. The first issue will be distributed across BC and Canada. If your poems are chosen, on top of publication we post them on our website to share with the rest of the world. Publication of your poems will be paid for with a copy of the issue. Please, no poems on your recounts of a beautiful walk through a Canadian park. We have enough coasters, and we don't need any more. For more information about submissions head over to http://www.poetryisdead.ca/about.html. If you are interested in writing editorial for Poetry Is Dead Magazine and have interesting/new angles on Canadian poetry, please feel free to email editor@poetryisdead.ca with your pitches. Sure poetry is dead, but we’ve been taking tips from the movie Weekend At Bernie’s, and no one will notice. Sincerely, Daniel Zomparelli Editor-In-Chief Poetry Is Dead Magazine editor@poetryisdead.ca

    

Deadline: June 1, 2010 GRITLIT LITERARY FESTIVAL’S CHALLENGE OF THREE- SEEKING SUBMISSIONS Hamilton's literary festival, gritLIT seeks three outstanding works of short fiction and three suites of poems. We want to be impressed, thrilled, and entertained. (Your immortality will come later.) We solemnly swear to • provide cold hard cash prizes (see below) • publish the top three entries of fiction and poetry in a handsome chapbook • supply each of three finalists in each category with three free copies of that chapbook The gritLIT Challenge of Three is open to writers in Canada and abroad. Stories and suites of poems must be written in English and not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted story may be up to 3000 words, on any subject. A suite of poems may be up to 300 lines, on any subject. The submission may be made up of a single poem or multiple poems (up to 15) so long as the total number of lines in the submission is 300 or less, including titles. Fiction Prizes: First place $200 // Second place $100 // Third place $50 Entry Fee $20 per story submission. Poetry Prizes: First place $200 // Second place $100 // Third place $50 Entry Fee $20 per submission of up to 300 lines of poetry. More info: http://www.gritlit.ca/pages/writing-competition

Deadline April 1, 2010 GRAIN MAGAZINE'S 22ND ANNUAL WRITING CONTEST Grain Magazine's 22nd Annual Writing Contest, is accepting entries until April 1, 2010 (postmarked). Grain still awards $6000 in cash prizes! The entry fee is still $30.00 which includes a one year subscription! Our judges are counted among Canada's finest writers! One entry fee allows you to enter a maximum of two entries in either of two categories: Poetry in any form to a maximum of 100 lines; Short Fiction in any style to a maximum of 2500 words. Judges are: Jennifer Still, Poetry, and Lee Henderson, Short Fiction. Four prizes will be awarded in each category: 1st prize=$1,250, 2nd prize=$750, 1st and 2nd runners up=$500 each. Consult Grain's website, www.grainmagazine.ca for complete rules or contact grainmag@sasktel.net. About our contest judges: Jennifer Still's second poetry collection, Girlwood, the manuscript of which won the 2008 John V. Hicks Award, is forthcoming with Brick Books in spring, 2011. Her first book, Saltations (Thistledown), was nominated forthree Saskatchewan Book Awards. She is the recipient of the 2008 Saskatchewan Emerging Artist Award; also in 2008 she was a finalist (twice) for the CBC Literary Awards. Co-founder of JackPine Press, Jennifer now lives in Winnipeg. Lee Henderson is the author of the award-winning short story collection The Broken Record Technique and the novel The Man Game. He is a contributing editor to the art magazines Border Crossings and Contemporary and has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals. His fiction has twice been featured in the Journey Prize Anthology. He lives in Vancouver.

Deadline June 30, 2010 II FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL ECO-POETRY, PERU “For the universal integration of all poets in defense of life” organized by UNIVA between 4 and 8 of August 2010 in Tumbes-Peru Participation in the II Festival International of Eco-Poetry Tumbes/Peru: There is a small fee to be paid by the participants, in order for the organizers to offer better conditions of lodging and food for the guests at the festival. The festival will edit a book of eco-poems written by the participants, therefore you must confirm your participation and send 3 eco-poems, a short bio and a photo until the 30th of June 2010. Also the same deadline applies to those who want to participate with reading an essay no bigger than 20 minutes, which has to do with eco-poetry or with aspects of the ecologic protection of our planet. You must send a resume no larger than one page A4, aerial 12 font, and a maximum of 12 slides in Power Point. After the deadline has passed, you can still participate in the Festival only as an attendant with the possibility to read your eco poems only if there is time, and your participation will be personal, without the responsibility of the organizers to provide you with room and board or local transportation. Please contact us at poetasuniva@gmail.com for additional info.

Deadline: June 16, 2010 Young Reviewers Competition www.lrb.co.uk/young-reviewers Each entrant should submit one review, praising or un-praising, between 2000 and 2500 words long, of any work of fiction or poetry published after the beginning of 2009. The review must be original, unpublished work (exceptions will be made for student periodicals). Entrants must be under the age of 26 at the closing date. Please send submissions, along with contact details, to competition@lrb.co.uk (as an attachment), or by post to: The Editors, London Review of Books 28 Little Russell Street London WC1A 2HN UK