The Canadian Writers' Contest Calendar 2021 INDEX
Contest Submission Forms | Updates
Page numbers are removed. Formating for the print version and the ebook versions have quite different page numbers, and I felt having them here would be confusing. Listed here are Sponsor names, and contest or award names. If you know the name but not the deadline date, this enables you to find the contest or award information, in additon to seeing if they are included.
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A
A. M. Klein Prize
Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing
Acrostic Story Contest
Albert B. Corey Prize
Alberta Book of the Year Awards
Alberta Literary Awards
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
Golden Pen Award
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize
R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction
Alberta Playwrights' Network
Alberta Playwriting Competition
Alden Nowlan Award
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction
Alice Munro Festival
Alice Munro Writers & Readers Festival Short Story
Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
Angela Harrison Memorial Award for Best Crime First Novel
Ann Connor Brimer Award
Antigonish Review, The [TAR]
Anvil Press
Arc Poetry Magazine
Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry
Diane Brebner Prize
Poem of the Year
Arthur Ellis Awards
Angela Harrison Memorial Award for Best Crime First Novel
Best Crime Book Published in the French Language
Best Crime Novella
Crime Non-Fiction
Crime Novel
Crime Short Story
Juvenile Crime Book
Unhanged Arthur
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Askew's Word On The Lake Writing Contest
Atlantic Book Awards
Ann Connor Brimer Award
Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction
J. M. Abraham Poetry Prize
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Atlantic Journalism Awards
Award For Publishing
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Bancroft Award
Bannister Poetry Anthology Contest
BC & Yukon Book Prizes
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Prize
Best Crime Book Published in the French Language
Best Crime Novella
Best Illustrated Book of the Year
Betty Drevniok Award
Black & White Line Art
BMO Winterset Award
Book of the Year
Book Publishers Association of Alberta
Briarpatch Magazine
Creative Non-fiction
Poetry
Brucedale Press
Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest
Burnford Award
Burnt Head
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C.B. MacPherson Prize
Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Writes
Canadian Authors Association NCR
Poetry
Short Story
Canadian Authors AssociationNiagara Branch
Bannister Poetry Anthology Contest
Fifteen Stories High
Canadian Book Club Awards
Canadian Children's Book Centre
Frances E. Russell Grant
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Canadian Committee on Labour History
Eugene A. Forsey Prize
Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) Article Prize
Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History
Canadian Community Newspaper Association
Canadian Historical Association
Albert B. Corey Prize
Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) Article Prize
Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History
CHA Journal Prize
Clio Prizes Certificate
Eugene A. Forsey Prize
François-Xavier Garneau Medal
Hilda Neatby Prize - English Article
Hilda Neatby Prize - French Article
Hilda Neatby Prize in Women's History
Indigenous History Best Article Prize
John Bullen Prize
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Canadian Journalism Foundation
Canadian Newspaper Association
Canadian Playwriting Competition
Canadian Political Science Association
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers [CANSCAIP] 39, 40
Canadian Stories
Black & White Line Art
Creative Non-Fiction
Yes Stories
Lest We Forget
Fiction
Poetry-Rhyming
Poetry-Non-rhyming
First Honourable Mention
Second Honourable Mention
CANSCAIP see Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
CBC Literary Prizes
CBC Nonfiction Prize
CBC Poetry Prize
CBC Short Story Prize
CHA Journal Prize
Children's Literature Award
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize
City of Regina Award
City of Regina Writing Award
City of Saskatoon Award
City of Toronto Book Awards
City of Vancouver Book Award
Clio Prizes Certificate
Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Collins Writing Contest
Concordia University
Concordia University First Book Prize
Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
Contemporary Verse 2
Contemporary Verse 2 Two-Day Poem Contest
Young Buck Poetry Prize
Creative Non-Fiction Awards
Creative Nonfiction Collective
Creative Nonfiction Collective/ carte blanche Contest
Crime Non-Fiction
Crime Novel
Crime Short Story
Crime Writers of Canada see Arthur Ellis Awards
CV2 see Contemporary Verse 2
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Danuta Gleed Award
DAOwen Publications
Dartmouth Book Awards
Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards
David Adams Richards Prize
Dawn Watson Memorial Prize
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
Diane Brebner Prize
Digital Publishing Awards
Donald Smiley Prize
Donner Book Prize
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Douglas College Review
Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize
Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest
Dundurn Press
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Eden Mills Writers Festival
Eden Mills Writers Festival Children's Poetry Contest
Eden Mills Teen Poetry Contest
Editors Canada
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Eugene A. Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction
Event
Event Creative Non-Fiction Contest
Exile Publishing
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Fiction Award
Fiddlehead
Fiddlehead Contests
Fiddlehead Poetry Contest
Fifteen Stories High
First Book Award
First Honourable Mention
Flavelle Medal
Fog Lit Books for Young People
Frances E. Russell Grant
François-Xavier Garneau Medal
Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry
Freefall Magazine
FreeFall Magazine Contests (Fiction and Poetry)
Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
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Geist
Geist Erasure Poetry Contest
Geist Magazine Postcard Contest
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
Gettoknow Contest
Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award
Golden Pen Award
Governor General's Literary Awards
Grande Prairie Public Library
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest
Griffin Poetry Prize
gritLIT Writing Competitions
Grouse Grind Prize for Very Short Forms
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition
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Haiku Canada
Betty Drevniok Award
Halifax Public Libraries
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Hilda Neatby Prize - English Article
Hilda Neatby Prize - French Article
Hilda Neatby Prize in Women's History
Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prizes for Young Canadians
Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize
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IBBY Canada
In Places Between
Indigenous History Best Article Prize
Innis Gérin Medal
International 3-Day Novel Contest
Island Literary Awards
Creative Non-Fiction Awards
Poetry Award
Short Story Award
Marie Coyoteblanc Award for Indigenous Writing
Student Awards
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J. M. Abraham Poetry Prize
J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest
James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth
Jill Vickers Prize
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
John Bullen Prize
John Glassco Translation Prize
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
John L. Synge Award
John McMenemy Prize
John Spray Mystery Award
John V Hicks Long Manuscript Award
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize
Juvenile Crime Book
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K
Kouhi Award
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Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize
League of Canadian Poets
Lest We Forget
Lieutenant-Governor's Awards for High Achievement
Alden Nowlan Award
Pascal Poirier Award
Lionel Gelber Prize
Literary Non-fiction
Literary Translators' Association of Canada
Literature for Children Award
Lorne Pierce Medal
Love Lies Bleeding Anthology Contest
Lush Triumphant Literary Awards
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Magpie Award for Poetry
Malahat lite
Malahat Review
Malahat Review Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction
Malahat Review Long Poem Prize
Malahat Review Open Season Awards
Manitoba Book Awards
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction
Best Illustrated Book of the Year
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Awards
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction
Margaret Phillips Award
Marie Coyoteblanc Award for Indigenous Writing
Martyn Godfrey Young Writers' Award
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
McLaughlin Medal
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Awards
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction
Miroslaw Romanowski Medal
Munk School for Global Affairs
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National Capital Writing Contests
National Magazine Awards
National Magazine Awards Foundation
National Media Awards Foundation
National Newspaper Awards
New Quarterly, The [TNQ]
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest
Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest
Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award
Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
News Media Canada
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest
Non-Fiction Award
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Northern Ontario Poetry Competition
Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop [NOWW]
Burnford Award
Kouhi Award
Margaret Phillips Award
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Okanagan Short Story Contest
One Act Play Contest
Ontario Creates
Trillium Book Award / Prix Trillium
Ontario Honours and Awards Secretariat
Ontario Poetry Society, The [TOPS]
Love Lies Bleeding Anthology Contest
Spring Peepers Poetry Competition
Ultra Short Poetry Competition
Ted Plantos Memorial Award
Ottawa Book Awards
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P
Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest
Pandora's Collective
Pandora's Annual Poetry Contest
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize
Pascal Poirier Award
PEI Writers' Guild
Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award
Poem of the Year
Poetry
Poetry Award
Poetry-Non-rhyming
Poetry-Rhyming
Poetry
Polar Expressions National Poetry & Short Story Contests
Pottersfield Press
Pottersfield Prize For Creative Nonfiction
Prairie Fire
Prairie Fire Contests
PRISM International
Grouse Grind Prize for Very Short Forms
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest
Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest
PRISM International Creative Non-Fiction Contest
Prix d'excellence Tom Fairley
Prix du livre d'Ottawa
Prix du Livre Français
Prix Hilda Neatby en histoire des femmes
Prix Trillium
Pulp Literature Press
Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize
Magpie Award for Poetry
Raven Short Story Contest
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Q
Quebec Writers' Federation
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
QWF Prize for Playwriting
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R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature
Raven Short Story Contest
RBC-Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
Re:verse
ReLit Awards
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest In Places Between
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Room Magazine
Room Magazine Annual Fiction Contest
Room Magazine Annual Poetry Contests
Room Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest
Room Magazine Short Forms Contest
Royal Canadian Legion
Royal Canadian Legion Literary Contests
Royal City Literary Arts Society
Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry
Royal City Literary Society Write On Contest
Royal Society of Canada
Bancroft Award
Flavelle Medal
Innis Gérin Medal
J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal
John L. Synge Award
Lorne Pierce Medal
McLaughlin Medal
Miroslaw Romanowski Medal
Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry
Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics
Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies
Willet G. Miller Medal
Yvan Allaire Medal
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Saskatchewan Book Awards
Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing
Award For Publishing
Book of the Year
Children's Literature Award
City of Regina Award
City of Saskatoon Award
Fiction Award
First Book Award
Non-Fiction Award
Poetry Award
Scholarly Writing Award
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild
City of Regina Writing Award
John V Hicks Long Manuscript Award
Scholarly Writing Award
Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications
Science in Society Awards
Science Writers & Communicators of Canada
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Scugog Council for the Arts Literary Contest
Second Honourable Mention
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Prize
Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize
Sheree Fitch Prize for Teen Writers
Shevchenko Foundation
Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short Prose
Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers
Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers
Short Script Screen or Stage
Short Story Award
Shuswap Association of Writers
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Spring Peepers Poetry Competition
Spring Pulse Poetry Festival
St. Francis Xavier University
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Stephen Leacock Association
Stephen Leacock Association Student Competition
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Stephen Leacock Student Humorous Short Story Competition
Student Award
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Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
Surrey International Writers' Conference
Surrey International Writers' Conference Writing Awards
SIWC Non-fiction Award
SIWC Poetry Award
SIWC Storyteller's Award
SIWC Writing For Young People Award
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TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction
Ted Plantos Memorial Award
Theatre BC
Theatre in the Raw Play Writing Contest
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Tisdale Writers Group Writing Contest
TNQ see New Quarterly, The
Tom Fairley Award
Toronto Book Awards Committee
Toronto Fringe Festival
Toronto Metropolitan International Screenwriting
Toronto Star and Toronto Public Library Short Story Contest
Trillium Book Award
TWUC see The Writers'Trust of Canada
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Ultra Short Poetry Competition
Unbound Anthology
Unhanged Arthur
University of British Columbia
University of New Brunswick
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
unpublished novel
Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies
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Vallum [magazine]
Vallum Award for Poetry
Vallum Chapbook Contest Award
Vallum Contemporary Poetry
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Vivalogue Publishing
Whistler Independent Book Awards
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W
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Whistler Independent Book Awards
Whistler Writing Society
White Mountain Publications
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction
Wilfrid Laurier University
Willet G. Miller Medal
Willliam Southam Journalism Fellowships
Word Guild Contests
Word Guild Writing Awards - Fresh Ink
Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador
Writers' Federation of New Brunswick
David Adams Richards Prize
Dawn Watson Memorial Prize
Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize
Fog Lit Books for Young People
Narrative Non-fiction Prose
Sheree Fitch Prize for Teen Writers
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Writers Guild of Alberta
Writers' Trust of Canada, The [TWUC]
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
Writers' Trust of Canada Awards
Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award
Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
Writers' Union of Canada
Writing for Children Competition
Writing in the Margins
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no entries
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Yes Stories
Young Alberta Book Society
Young Buck Poetry Prize
Yvan Allaire Medal
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Z
no entries