The Canadian Writers' Contest Calendar 2022 INDEX
Contest Submission Forms | Updates
Page numbers are here for the PRINT edition. Formating for the print version and the ebook versions have quite different page numbers, and I felt having them here was important to see how many listings there were for each. 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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Acrostic Story Contest 11
Alberta Book of the Year Awards 26
Alberta Literary Awards 76
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize 76
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 76
Golden Pen Award 76
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 76
Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story 76
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 76
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 76
Memoir Award 76
R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature 76
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize 76
Short Story Collection Award 76
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 76
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction 76
Alice Munro Writers & Readers Festival Short Story 25
Amy Mathers Teen Book Award 73
Arc Poetry Magazine 12, 16, 21, 27, 31, 39, 47, 51, 54, 56, 58, 62, 68, 77
Arc Award of Awesomeness 12, 21, 27, 31, 39, 47, 51, 54, 57, 61, 68, 76
Poem of the Year 16
Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry 27
Arthur Ellis Awards 73
Arts and Letters Awards Office 72
Artsnb 45, 46
Pascal Poirier Award 46
Alden Nowlan Award for Exellence in English Language Literary Arts 45
ArtsNL 78
Askew's Foods Word On The Lake Writing Contest 12
Atlantic Book Awards 63
Ann Connor Brimer Award 63
Evelyn Richardson Prize 63
J. M. Abraham Poetry Prize 63
Nova Scotia Poetry Award 63
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award 63
Atlantic Journalism Awards 15
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Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award 69
Bannister Poetry Anthology Contest 42
BC And Yukon Book Prizes 70
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award 70
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize 70
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 70
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 70
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 70
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes 70
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 70
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Prize 70
Betty Drevniok Award 7
BMO Winterset Award 78
Book Publishers Association of Alberta 26
Briarpatch Magazine 71
Writing in the Margins Briarpatch Writing Contests 71
Brucedale Press 11, 12
Acrostic Story Contest 11
Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest 19
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Canada Council for the Arts 26, 36, 52
Canadian Authors Association-NCR National Capital Region 18
National Capital Writing Contests 17
Canadian Authors AssociationNiagara Branch 14, 18, 42
Bannister Poetry Anthology Contest 42
Fifteen Stories High 14
Canadian Children's Book Centre 9, 73, 74, 75
Canadian Committee on Labour History 6
Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) Article Prize 15
Canadian Community Newspaper Association 18
Canadian Historical Association 6, 16, 17, 77
Albert B. Corey Prize 77
Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History 77
CHA Journal Prize 77
Clio Prizes Certificate 77
Eugene A. Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History 6, 77
François-Xavier Garneau Medal 77
Hilda Neatby Prize - English Article 77
Hilda Neatby Prize - French Article 77
Hilda Neatby Prize in Women's History/ le Prix Hilda Neatby en histoire des femmes 16, 17
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 70
Indigenous History Best Article Prize 77
John Bullen Prize 77
Sir John A. Macdonald 77
Wallace K. Ferguson 77
Canadian Playwriting Competition 77
Canadian Political Science Association 45, 71, 72
Jill Vickers Prize 45
Donald Smiley Prize 71
John McMenemy Prize 71
Canadian Science Writers' Association 65
Paradigm Prize for Underrepresented Perspectives in Science Writing 65
Science Journalism Award 65
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers [CANSCAIP] 43, 44
Canadian Stories 48, 49
Black & White Line Art 48
Fiction 48
Poetry Non-Rhyming 48
Poetry-Rhyming 48
Stories 48
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award 66, 68
carte blanche Contest 20
Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition 32
CBC Literary Prizes 22, 40, 62
CBC Nonfiction Prize 21
CBC Poetry Prize 40
CBC Short Story Prize 62
Cecilia Lamont Literary Contest 54
CHA Journal Prize 77
Circle Project Assoc. Inc. 64
City of Regina Writing Award 8, 64
City of Vancouver Book Award 38
Clash of the Query Letters 12
Collins Writing Contest 22
Concordia University 49
Contemporary Verse 2 30, 66, 67
CV2- Two-Day Poem Contest 30
Foster Poetry Prize 66, 67
Creative Nonfiction Collective Society 20
carte blanche Contest 20
Crime Writers of Canada 61, 73
Best Crime First Novel 73
Best Crime Novel 73
Best Crime Novella 73
Best Crime Short Story 73
Best French Crime Book 73
Brass Knuckle Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 73
Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada 73
Juvenile or Young Adult Crime Book 73
Unhanged Arthur [Best Unpublished First Crime Novel] 60, 61
Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery 73
CV2 see Contemporary Verse 2
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Danuta Gleed Award 13
Darling Axe Editing 12, 13, 42, 43, 58
Clash of the Query Letters 12, 13
Synopsis Skirmish 42, 43
The First Page Challenge 58
Dartmouth Book Awards 63
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers 59
Diane Brebner Prize 56
Digital Publishing Awards 10
Donald Smiley Prize 71
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 70
Douglas College Review 60
Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize 24
Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 31
Dreamers Creative Writing 13, 36, 58
Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest 58
Dreamers Haiku Contest 36
Dreamers Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home 13
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Eden Mills Writers Festival 39
Eden Mills Writers Festival Children's Poetry Contest 39
Editors Canada 59
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 29
Event Magazine 59, 60
Event Non-Fiction Contest 59
Excelsis Group 32
ELQ/Exile Quarterly 32
Exile's Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition 32
Best Story by an Emerging Writer 32
Best Story by a Writer at Any Career Point 32
Best Suite by a Writer at Any Career Point 32
Best Suite by an Emerging Writer 32
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Federation of BC Writers 55
Federation of BC Writers Literary Contest 55
Flash Fiction 55
Short Fiction 55
Creative Non-fiction 55
Poetry 55
Fiddlehead Magazine 56,57,70Fiddlehead Fiction Contest 56, 57
Fiddlehead Poetry Contest 70
Film Freeway. 35
First Page Challenge 58
Foster Poetry Prize 66
Frances E. Russell Grant 9
Freefall Magazine 78
FreeFall Fiction Contest 78
FreeFall Poetry Contest 78
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Geist 30
Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest 30
Get To Know Program 44
Gettoknow Contest 44
Ghastly Gruesome Poetry Contest 55
Government of Newfoundland & Labrador Arts and Letters Awards 71
Governor General's Literary Awards 26, 36, 51
Grain Magazine Writing Contests 29
Short Grain 29
Grande Prairie Public Library 22
Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry 48, 79
Griffin Poetry Prize 47, 79
gritLIT Writing Competitions 8
Grouse Grind Prize for Very Short Forms 36
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Haiku Canada 7
Halifax Public Libraries 63
Hilda Neatby Prize in Women's History 16
Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prizes for Young Canadian Journalists 18
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize 46
Huron County Library 25
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IBBY Canada 9
In Places Between 40
Indigenous History Best Article Prize 77
Island Literary Awards 18, 19
Creative Non-Fiction Awards 19
Literature for Children Award 19
Marie Coyoteblanc Award for Indigenous Writing 19
Poetry Award 19
Short Story Award 19
Student Award 19
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Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest 9, 10
James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing 40
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest 9, 10
Jane LeBlanc Screenwriting Award 25
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth 32
Jill Vickers Prize 45
John Glassco Translation Prize 49
John McMenemy Prize 72
John Spray Mystery Award 74
John V Hicks Long Manuscript Award 47
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le Prix d'excellence Tom Fairley 59
le Prix Hilda Neatby en histoire des femmes 16
League of Canadian Poets 32, 33
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth 32
Lieutenant-Governor's Awards for High Achievement 45, 46
Alden Nowlan Award 45
Pascal Poirier Award for Excellence in French Language Literary Arts 46
Lionel Gelber Prize 62
Literary Translators' Association of Canada 49
Love Lies Bleeding Anthology Contest 33
Lush Triumphant Literary Awards 37
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Magpie Award for Poetry 30, 31
Malahat Review, The 17, 34, 35, 53, 65
Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction 53
Far Horizons Award for Poetry 34, 35
Novella Prize 17
Open Season Awards 65
Manitoba Book Awards 68
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award 68
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award 68
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book 68
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer 68
Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Prize 68
Manuela Dias Design and Illustration awards 68
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Awards 68
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction 68
Prix John-Hirsch pour l'écrivain manitobain le plus prometteur 68
Prix Lansdowne de poésie 68
Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique et d'ill 68
Martyn Godfrey Young Writers' Award 27
Munk School for Global Affairs & Public Policy 62
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National Capital Writing Contests 17
National Magazine Awards 10
National Media Awards Foundation 10
National Newspaper Awards 9
New Quarterly, The [TNQ] 23, 39
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest 22, 23
Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award 38, 39
Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards 45
E.J. Pratt Poetry Book Award 45
Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union Fresh Fish 45
Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador 45
News Media Canada 18
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest 22, 23
Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction 74
Nova Writes Competition 6
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Okanagan Short Story Contest 11
Ontario Creates 15, 67
Ontario Honours and Awards Secretariat 40
Ontario Poetry Society, The [TOPS] 23, 33, 48, 56, 69
Spring Peepers Poetry Competition 23
Love Lies Bleeding Anthology Contest 33
Ultra Short Poetry Competition 48
Ted Plantos Memorial Award 56
Provoked-By-Places Contest 69
Ottawa Book Awards 6
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Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest 61
PEI Writers' Guild 18, 19
Literature for Children Award 19
Poetry Award 19
Short Story Award 19
Marie Coyoteblanc Award for Indigenous Writing 19
Student Award 19
Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award 38, 39
Poem of the Year 16
Polar Expressions Publishing 52
Polar Expressions National Poetry & Short Story Contest 52
Pottersfield Press 33
Pottersfield Prize For Creative Nonfiction 33
Prairie Fire Press Inc. 69
Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award 69
Banff Centre Bliss Carman Short Fiction Award 69
Banff Centre Bliss Carman Creative Non-fiction Award 69
PRISM International 9, 10, 37, 61
Grouse Grind Prize for Very Short Forms 36
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest 9, 10
Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest 61
Prix du livre d'Ottawa 6
Prix Trillium 14, 67
Provoked-By-Places Contest 69
Pulp Literature Press 19, 20, 30, 31, 46, 60
Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest 19, 20
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize 46
Magpie Award for Poetry 30, 31
Raven Short Story Contest 60
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Quebec Writers' Federation Awards 41, 52, 53
A. M. Klein Prize 41, 52
Cole Foundation Prize for Translation 41, 52
Concordia University First Book Prize 41, 52
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction 41, 52
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize Fiction 41, 52
QWF Prize for Playwriting 41, 52
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Raven Short Story Contest 60
RBC-Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award 20
Re:verse 33
ReLit Awards 11
Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest 41, 42
Room Magazine 26, 46, 55, 66
Annual Fiction Contest 26
Annual Poetry Contests 55
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 46
Short Forms Contest 66
Royal Canadian Legion 50
Royal Canadian Legion Literary Contests 49
Royal Historical Society Awards 28
Bancroft Award 28
Flavelle Medal 28
Innis Gérin Medal 28
J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal 28
J.B.Tyrrell Medal 28
John L. Synge Award 28
Lorne Pierce Medal 28
McLaughlin Medal 28
Miroslaw Romanowski Medal 28
Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry 28
Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics 28
Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies 28
Willet G. Miller Medal 28
Yvan Allaire Medal 28
Royal Society of Canada 28
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Saskatchewan Book Awards 64
Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing 64
Award For Publishing 64
Book of the Year 64
Children's Literature Award 64
City of Regina Writing Award 8, 64
City of Saskatoon Award 64
Fiction Award 64
First Book Award 64
Non-Fiction Award 64
Poetry Award 64
Prix du Livre Français 64
Scholarly Writing Award 64
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild 8, 29, 47
City of Regina Writing Award 8
Grain Magazine Contests 29
John V Hicks Manuscript Award 47
Science in Society Awards 72
Science Journalism Award 65
Science Writers & Communicators of Canada 72
Scotiabank Giller Prize 53
Scugog Council for the Arts 53, 54
Scugog Council for the Arts Literary Contest 53
Short Grain 29
Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers 21
Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers 19
Shuswap Association of Writers 12
Spring Peepers Poetry Competition 23
Spring Pulse Poetry Festival 31
Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 31
Stephen Leacock Association 79
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour 79
subTERRAIN Magazine 37
Lush Triumphant Literary Awards 37
Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic 14
Surrey International Writers' Conference 57
SIWC Non-fiction Award 57
SIWC Poetry Award 57
SIWC Storyteller's Award 57
SIWC Writing For Young People Award 57
Synopsis Skirmish 42
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TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 74, 75
Ted Plantos Memorial Award 56
The New Quarterly [TNQ] 23, 38
Theatre BC 78
Tisdale Writers Group Inc. 28
Tisdale Writers Group Writing Contest 28
Tom Fairley Award 59
Toronto Metropolitan International Screenwriting 35
Toronto Star Short Story Contest 24
Trillium Book Award 14, 67
TWUC see The Writers'Trust of Canada
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Ultra Short Poetry Competition 48
Unhanged Arthur 60, 61
University of British Columbia 10, 11, 37, 61
University of New Brunswick 57, 70
University of Toronto 62
University of Victoria 17, 35, 53
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Vallum [magazine] 51
Vallum Award for Poetry 51
Vallum Chapbook Award 38
Vallum Chapbook Contest Award 37
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature 50
Vivalogue Publishing 34
Whistler Independent Book Awards 34
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West Coast Book Prize Society 70
Whistler Independent Book Awards 34
White Mountain Publications 2
White Rock and Surrey Writers' Club 54
Wilfrid Laurier University 29
Word Guild 67
Word Guild Writing Awards - Fresh Ink 67
Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador 45
Fresh Fish Award 45
Fiction Award 45
Children's/ Young Adult Literature Award 45
Non-Fiction Award 45
Poetry Award 45
Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Competitions 24, 25
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry 25
David Adams Richards Prize 24
Dawn Watson Memorial Prize 25
Narrative Non-fiction Prose 25
Sheree Fitch Prize for Teen Writers 25
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia 7, 63
Budge Wilson Short Story Prize 7
H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize 7
Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children & Young Adult 7
Nova Writes Competition 6
Rita Joe Poetry Prize 7
Writers Guild of Alberta 76
Writers' Trust of Canada 20, 50, 59, 75
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 50
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers 50, 59
Engel/Findley Award 50
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize 50
Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize 50
Matt Cohen Award 50
McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize 50
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers 20
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize 50
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature 50
Writers' Union of Canada, The [TWUC] 13, 19, 21
Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers 21
Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers 19
Writing for Children Competition 43
Writing in the Margins Briarpatch Writing Contests 71
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Young Alberta Book Society 28
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no entries