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The 2010 EVENT Non-Fiction Contest
Three winners will each receive $500 (plus publication payment).
Publication in EVENT 39/3 (December 2010). Other manuscripts may be
published. Preliminary judging by the editors of EVENT. Read the rest of this entry »

Building on the success of the summer Readers & Writers Festival, the Denman Island Arts Centre announces the first annual Winter Writer’s Retreat, when three established writers will offer workshops over a two-week period in February 2010.

Join Ivan Coyote, Matt Rader and Heidi Greco for hands-on writing workshops and intimate salon readings.

For more information and registration go to www.artsdenman.com or leave a message at the Denman Island Arts Centre (250) 335-1224. The Denman Island Arts Centre is a short walk up the hill from the ferry. Classes are small so register early! Read the rest of this entry »

Creative Nonfiction is promoting their MFA Program-Off, a chance for MFA students (in any genre, and any type of program–though submissions must be nonfiction) to compete for a chance to be published!

1.CONTEST: End of Life Stories
postmark deadline Dec. 31, 2009

2.CONTEST: MFA Program-Off
postmark deadline: January 28, 2010

3.UPCOMING THEME and CONTEST: Animals
postmark deadline April 2, 2010

For complete contest details and guidelines please visit:�http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm#programoff

Creative Non-Fiction Contest on the Topic of “Migrations”.  

The prize is  $250 and publication in LAKE: A Journal of Arts and Environment.  The deadline has been extended to February 1, 2010. 
Length:  2500 words maximum
Entry fee is  $20, includes a one year subscription to LAKE starting with issue #4. 
Creative non-fiction forms include personal essay, lyric essay, narrative essay, and memoir.
Send to Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment, Dept. of Creative Studies, UBC Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna BC, V1V 1 V7. 
See website:  www.lakejournal.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.

We’re looking for 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 will be available after December 1, 2009 at: www.thewritersstudio.ca.

Manuscripts must be postmarked before May 31, 2010.

Bankrupt Magazine — a newly launched Vancouver online literary magazine — has placed a call for submissions for short fiction and literary non-fiction:

Bankrupt Magazine is a place for up-and-coming Vancouver writers to share their work with the world.

Our stories are written for readers, not just other writers. We believe reading should be exciting; it should grab you and say: “Hold on tight, this is going to be wild.” It should be accessible, not elitist. Anyone should be able to pick up a piece of good writing and say: “You were right, that was one hell of a ride.”

We welcome submissions from residents of Metro Vancouver, Canada. We accept all genres of short fiction and all forms of literary non-fiction.

Visit their site for full details: http://bankruptmag.com

Vancouver author Andreas Schroeder will read from his newly published autobiographical novel — Renovating Heaven — on March 26th at Robson Square.

Tracing the history of Mennonite life in BC from the 50’s to the 70’s, Renovating Heaven follows Schroeder and his family as they settle on a small Fraser Valley farm and proceed to try to make sense of the perplexing behaviour and values of “The English” who surround them. New Yorker writer Edith Iglauer has called this book “a masterpiece”.

Schroeder is the author of 22 books, and holds the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Nonfiction in UBC’s Creative Writing program.

Event Details

Thursday, March 26 (7PM)
UBC Bookstore @ Robson Square
800 Robson Street, Vancouver
(Between Hornby & Howe)

Vancouver journalist Cori Howard has launched The Momoir Project, an online magazine that teaches moms how to write their own stories and gives them an opportunity to publish on the website.

The site includes a new online workbook for those with neither the time or money for classes, and a student-led blog to keep all writer/moms connected and writing.

Visit the site at: http://www.themomoirproject.com/

PRISM International magazine has released its Literary Non-Fiction Contest issue.  Visit www.prismmagazine.ca to explore the new issue, order a copy online and read sample excerpts.

Featuring :

- literary nonfiction contest winner “The Death of Pedro Iván” by Amanda Hale
- interview with contest judge Patrick Lane, plus work by our two runners-up

And new work by:

- poetry and fiction by Maureen Hynes, Julian Gobert, Lindsay McNiff and more
- stunning cover art by Emma SanCartier

PRISM international is also excited to announce its incoming editorial team for 2009-10:

Rachel Knudsen - Fiction Editor
Elizabeth Ross - Poetry Editor
Nadia Pestrak - Executive Editor - Circulation & Promotion
Dan Schwartz - Executive Editor - Finance

Congratulations to these fabulous MFA candidates! It’s going to be another great year.

Add Prism Mag as a friend on Facebook, e-mail them at prism@interchange.ubc.ca, or knock on the door of room Buchanan E465 at UBC to say hello and snag an issue.

The Tyee has placed a call for submissions for their Big Ideas 2009 series:

Think big. Then share your thinking with us.

This is an open invitation to help Canada (and the rest of the world) brainstorm a better future by pointing The Tyee community to the best important ideas for 2009.

Have an idea so original it hasn’t been floated on the web anywhere else yet? You are invited to submit an article laying out your thinking. We ask you to substantiate your ideas with facts and clear, reasoned arguments. (No rants please). And please understand that the article would run under your byline — your real name, not your Tyee commenter’s nickname. Send your submission to: editor@thetyee.ca and make the subject line: Big Idea for 2009.

Pretty much every area of life is fair game. Come up with a bright new approach to education, the arts, medicine, government, activism, business, family life, religion, sex… you name it.

Full details at The Tyee.