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March 9th, 2010 | Posted in Contests & Competitions, Creative Non-Fiction, UBC |
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.
Final Judge: Lynn Coady is the author of the novels Strange Heaven
(1998), Saints of Big Harbour (2003), and, most recently, Mean Boy
(2006). She has also published a short story collection, Play the
Monster Blind (2000). Her non-fiction has appeared in magazines and
newspapers across Canada. She has been nominated for the Governor
General’s Award for Fiction, as well as the Rogers Writers’ Trust
Award, and is a recipient of the Dartmouth Book Award, The Canadian
Authors Association Jubilee Award and the CAA Award for Authors under
Thirty. In 2005 she received the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn
Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and in 2007 she
received the Writers Guild of Alberta George Bugnet fiction prize for
Mean Boy. She lives in Edmonton.
Myrna Kostash, Andreas Schroeder, Sharon Butala, Tom Wayman, Di Brandt,
Terry Glavin, Karen Connelly, Charles Montgomery and Timothy Taylor are
some of our past judges.
Writers are invited to submit manuscripts exploring the creative
non-fiction form. Check your library for back issues of EVENT with
previous winning entries and judges’ comments. Contest back issues are
available for $9 (includes GST and postage; US$9 for American residents;
CAN$13 for overseas residents).
Note: Previously published material, or material accepted elsewhere for
publication, cannot be considered. Maximum entry length is 5000 words,
typed, double-spaced. The writer should not be identified on the entry.
Include a separate cover sheet with the writer’s name, address, phone
number / email, and the title(s) of the story (stories) enclosed.
Include a SASE (Canadian postage / IRCs /US$1). Douglas College
employees are not eligible to enter.
Entry fee: Multiple entries are allowed, however, each entry must be
accompanied by a $29.95 entry fee (includes GST and a one-year
subscription; make cheque or international money order payable to
EVENT). Those already subscribing will receive a one-year extension.
American and overseas entrants please pay in US dollars.
Deadline for entries: Postmarked April 15, 2010.
Send entries to: EVENT Non-Fiction Contest
P.O. Box 2503
New Westminster, BC
Canada V3L 5B2
Tel.: (604) 527-5293
email: event@douglas.bc.ca
http://event.douglas.bc.ca
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