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3-Day Novel Contest 46
50/50 Blank Spaces Fiction Anthology Contest 50
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A. M. Klein Prize 36, 44
Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing 58
Accenti Magazine 15
Accenti Writing Contest 15
Acrostic Story Contest 11
Albert B. Corey Prize 68
Alberta Book of the Year Awards 22
Alberta Literary Awards 62, 63
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize 62
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 62
Golden Pen Award 62
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 62
Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story 62
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 62
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 62
Memoir Award 62
R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature 62
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize 62
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 62
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction 62
Alberta Playwrights' Network 22, 23
Alberta Playwriting Competition 22
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry 25
Alice Munro Festival -Youth Short Story 21
Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story 21
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children 56
Anvil Press 46, 47
International 3-Day Novel Contest 46, 47
Arc Poetry Magazine 11, 12, 19, 23, 35, 41, 47, 48, 49, 53, 67
Arc Award of Awesomeness 11, 12, 19, 23, 35, 41, 42, 47, 49, 53, 62, 67
Arc Poetry Society 14, 23
Poem of the Year 14
Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry 23
artsnb [New Brunswick] 38
New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor’s Awards 38
Alden Nowlan Award 38
Pascal Poirier Award 38
ArtsNL [Newfoundland & Labrador] 66
BMO Winterset Award 66
Atlantic Book Awards 56
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children 56
J. M. Abraham Poetry Prize 56
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award 56
Atlantic Journalism Awards 14
Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence 53
Award For Publishing [SK] 57
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BC & Yukon Book Prizes 63
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award 63
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize 63
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 63
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 63
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 63
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes 63
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 63
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Prize 63
Best Crime First Novel Prize 54
Best Crime Novel 54
Best Crime Novella 54
Best Crime Short Story 54
Best French Crime Book 55
Best Unpublished Crime Manuscript 54
Best Unpublished First Crime Novel 55
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award 63
Blank Spaces Magazine 6, 50
50/50 Blank Spaces Fiction Anthology Contest 50
Blank Spaces Flash Fiction Contest 6
BMO Winterset Award 66
Book of the Year 57
Book Publishers Association of Alberta 22
Brass Knuckle Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 54
Briarpatch Magazine 64
Brucedale Press 11
Acrostic Story Contest 11
Budge Wilson Short Story Prize 9
Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest 16
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C.B. MacPherson Prize 66
Canada Council for the Arts 16, 33, 41
Canadian Book Club Awards 42
Canadian Children's Book Centre 17
Frances E. Russell Grant
Canadian Committee on Labour History 6
Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History 67, 68
Canadian Community Newspaper Association 28
Canadian Historical Association 6, 68
Canadian Historical Association Awards 67
Albert B. Corey Prize 67
Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History English-Language Book Prize 67, 68
Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History French-Language Book Prize 67 , 68
CHA Journal Prize 67
Clio Prizes Certificate 67
Eugene A. Forsey Prize 67
François-Xavier Garneau Medal 67
Hilda Neatby Prize - English Article 67
Hilda Neatby Prize - French Article 67
Indigenous History Best Article Prize 67
John Bullen Prize 67
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize 67
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 67
Canadian Playwriting Competition 68
Canadian Political Science Association 39, 65, 66
C.B. MacPherson Prize 66
Donald Smiley Prize 65
Jill Vickers Prize 39
Canadian Science Writers' Association 50, 51
Paradigm Prize 50
Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrator & Performers [CANSCAIP] 36
Writing for Children Competition 36
carte blanche Contest 16
CBC Literary Prizes 20, 37, 56
CBC Nonfiction Prize 20
CBC Poetry Prize 37
CBC Short Story Prize 56
CHA Journal Prize 67
Children’s Literature Award [SK] 57
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature 63
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize 62
City of Regina Award 57
City of Regina Writing Award 7
City of Saskatoon Award 57
City of Toronto Book Awards 28
City of Vancouver Book Award 33
Clio Prizes Certificate 67
Cole Foundation Prize for Translation 36, 44
Collins Writing Contest 18
Concordia University 46
Concordia University First Book Prize 36, 44
Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction Prize 45
Contemporary Verse 2 59
Foster Poetry Prize 59
Creative Nonfiction Collective 16
carte blanche Contest 16
Creative Works SSAC Writing Contest 52
Creative Works SSAC Youth Writing Contest 60
Crime Writers of Canada 54, 55
Crime Writers of Canada Awards 54, 55
Best Crime First Novel Prize 54
Best Crime Novel 54
Best Crime Novella 54
Best Crime Short Story 54
Best French Crime Book 54
Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (the Unhanged Arthur) 54, 55
Brass Knuckle Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 54
Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada 54
Juvenile or YA Crime Book 54
Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery 54
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Danuta Gleed Award 12
Dartmouth Book Awards 56, 57
Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction 56
George Borden Writing for Change Award 56
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction 56
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-fiction 57
Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards 40
David Adams Richards Prize 25
Dawn Watson Memorial Prize 25
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers 39
Diane Brebner Prize 48
Digital Publishing Awards 10
Donald Smiley Prize 65
Donner Book Prize 61
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 63
Douglas College Review 51
Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize 25
Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 26
Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest 50
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E
ECW Press 54
Editors Canada 49
Tom Fairley Award 49
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 25
Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest 22
Ekphrastic Writing Literary Contest 12
Entitled Titles Poetry Competition 12
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 63
Eugene A. Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History Graduate 67
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Prize 57
Event, The Douglas College Review 51
Event Non-Fiction Contest 51
Ex_Puritan Magazine 53
Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence 53
Exile Publishing 24
Morley Callaghan Best Canadian Short Story Competition 24
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F
Fiction Award [SK] 57
Fiddlehead Magazine 64, 65
Fiddlehead Contests -Fiction 64
Fiddlehead Contests -Poetry 65
First Book Award [SK] 57
Fog Lit Books for Young People Prize 25
Foster Poetry Prize 59
Frances E. Russell Grant 17
François-Xavier Garneau Medal 67
Freefall Magazine 29
FreeFall Magazine Contests (Fiction and Poetry) 29
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G
Geist Magazine 27
Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest 27
George Borden Writing for Change Award 56
Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction 62
Gettoknow Contest 38
Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award 23
Golden Pen Award 62
Government of Newfoundland & Labrador Arts and Letters 60
Governor General's Literary Awards 16, 33, 41
Grain Magazine Writing Contests-Short Grain 26
Grande Prairie Public Library 18
Collins Writing Contest 18
Griffin Poetry Prize 39, 67
Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry 67
gritLIT: Hamilton's Literary Competition 7, 8
Grouse Grind Prize for Very Short Forms 34
Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 62
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H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize 9
Hamilton Central Library 8
Hilda Neatby Prize 67
Hilda Neatby Prize in Women's History 8
Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prizes for Young Canadians 28
Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada 54
Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story 62
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 63
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize 38
Huron County Library 21
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I
Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize 44
IBBY Canada 17
Indigenous History Best Article Prize 67
International 3-Day Novel Contest 46
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J
J. M. Abraham Poetry Prize 56
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest 8, 9
James Bartleman Aboriginal Youth Creative Writing 35
James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction 62
Jane LeBlanc Screenwriting Award 25
Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Youth 36, 44
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth 29
Jill Vickers Prize 39
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes 63
John Bullen Prize 68
John Glassco Translation Prize 46
John V Hicks Long Manuscript Award 40
Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize 62
Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children & Young Adult 9
Judy Mappin Community Award 36, 44
Juvenile or YA Crime Book 54
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K
Kobzar Emerging Writers 66
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League of Canadian Poets 29, 30
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth 29
Lionel Gelber Prize 55
Literary Translators' Association of Canada 46
Lush Triumphant—subTerrain's Annual Literary Award 34
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M
Magpie Award for Poetry 27
Malahat Review 14, 32, 45, 59
Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction Prize 45
Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 32
Long Poem/Novella Prize 14
Open Season Awards 59
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction 56
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-fiction 57
Martyn Godfrey Young Writers' Award 24
Massey College 20
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction 36, 44
Max Margles Fiction Prize 36, 44
McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award, Short Fiction 61
Memoir Award 62
Morley Callaghan Best Canadian Short Story Competition 24
Munk School for Global Affairs & Public Policy 55
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Narrative Non-fiction Prose 25
National Magazine Awards 10
National Media Awards Foundation 11
National Newspaper Awards 8
New Brunswick Lieutenant-Governor’s Awards 38
New Quarterly, The [TNQ] 18, 19, 22, 35
Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest 22
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest 18
Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award 35
News Media Canada 28
Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest 18
Non-Fiction Award [SK] 57
North Shore Writers' Association 21, 22
North Shore Writers’ Association Annual Writing Contest 21
Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop Writing Contest 19
Nova Writes Competition for Unpublished Manuscript 9
Budge Wilson Short Story Prize 9
H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize 9
Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children & Young Adult Prize 9
Rita Joe Poetry Prize 9
Novitiate Prize 22
NOWW International Writing Contests 19
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O
Okanagan Short Story Contest 15
Ontario Creates 60
Ontario Honours and Awards Secretariat 35
Ontario Poetry Society, The [TOPS] 12, 23, 44, 47, 48
Entitled Titles Poetry Competition 12
Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award 23
Ted Plantos Memorial Award 47, 48
Ultra Short Poetry Competition 44
Ontario Writers’ Conference Short Story Starters Contest 6
Ottawa Book Awards 6
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Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest 64
Paradigm Prize 50
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize Fiction 36, 44
Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award 35
Poem of the Year 14
Poetry Award 57
Polar Expressions Publishing 43
Polar Expressions National Poetry & Short Story Contest 43
Portal Magazine 51, 52
Portent Contest 51, 52
Pottersfield Press 30
Pottersfield Prize For Creative Nonfiction 30
Prairie Fire Press Inc. 61
McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award, Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
PRISM International 8, 9, 34, 43, 64
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 43
Grouse Grind Prize for Very Short Forms 34
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest 8, 9
Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest 64
Prix du Livre Français [SK] 57
Publishing in Education Award [SK] 58
Pulp Literature Press 16, 27, 38, 52
Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest 16
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize 38
Magpie Award for Poetry 27
Raven Short Story Contest 52
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Q
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards 36, 44
A. M. Klein Prize 36, 44
Cole Foundation Prize for Translation 36, 44
Concordia University First Book Prize 36, 44
Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Youth 36, 44
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction 36, 44
Max Margles Fiction Prize 36, 44
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize Fiction 36, 44
QWF College Writers Award 36, 44
QWF Prize for Playwriting 36, 44
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R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature 62
Raven Chapbooks Poetry Contest 61
Raven Short Story Contest 52
RBC-Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award 10
Rita Joe Poetry Prize 9
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize 62
Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest 32
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 63
Room Magazine 20, 41, 48, 66
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 41
Fiction Contest 20
Poetry Contest 48
Short Forms Contest 66
Royal Canadian Legion Literary Contests—Essay, Poetry 42
Royal Society of Canada 21
Ruth and David Lampe $3,000 Poetry Competition 24
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Saskatchewan Book Awards 57, 58
Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing 57, 58
Award For Publishing 57
Book of the Year 57
Children’s Literature Award 57
City of Regina Award 57
City of Saskatoon Award 57
Fiction Award 57
First Book Award 57
Non-Fiction Award 57
Poetry Award 57
Prix du Livre Français 57
Publishing in Education Award 57, 58
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild 7, 40
City of Regina Writing Award 7
John V Hicks Long Manuscript Award 40
Science in Society Awards 58
Science Writers & Communicators of Canada 58
Scotiabank Giller Prize 45
Scugog Council for the Arts 12
Sharon Pollock Award 22
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Prize 63
Sheree Fitch Prize for Teen Writers 25
Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short Prose 65
Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers 18
Shuswap Association of Writers 13
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize 67
South Simcoe Arts Council 52, 60
Creative Works SSAC Writing Contest 52
Creative Works SSAC Youth Writing Contest 60
Spring Pulse Poetry Festival 27
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 62
Stephen Leacock Association 28, 69
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour 69
Stephen Leacock Student Humorous Short Story Competition 28
subTERRAIN Magazine 34
Lush Triumphant—subTerrain's Annual Literary Award 34
Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic 13
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T
Ted Plantos Memorial Award 47
Theatre BC 68
Canadian Playwriting Competition
Theatre in the Raw Play Writing Contest 68
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award 56
TNQ see New Quarterly
Tom Fairley Award 49
TOPS see Ontario Poetry Society
Toronto Book Awards Committee, 28
Trillium Book Award 13, 60
TWUC see Writers Union of Canada
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Ultra Short Poetry Competition 44
University of British Columbia 15, 34, 44, 64
University of New Brunswick 64, 65
University of Toronto 55
University of Victoria 45, 59
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Vallum Chapbook Contest Award 30
Vallum Poems From The Crowd Series 9
Vancouver Island University 52
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Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 67
West Coast Book Prize Society 63
Whistler Independent Book Awards 31
White Mountain Publications 2, 4
Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery 54
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction 62
Wilfrid Laurier University 25
Willliam Southam Journalism Fellowships 20
Word Guild Writing Awards - Fresh Ink 17
Word On The Lake Writing Contest 13
Writers' Federation of New Brunswick 25
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry 25
David Adams Richards Prize 25
Dawn Watson Memorial Prize 25
Douglas Kyle Memorial Prize 25
Fog Lit Books for Young People Prize 25
Jane LeBlanc Screenwriting Award 25
Narrative Non-fiction Prose 25
Sheree Fitch Prize for Teen Writers 25
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia 9, 56, 57
Writers' Trust of Canada 10, 39
Writers' Union of Canada, The [TWUC] 12, 18
Danuta Gleed Award 12
Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers 17, 18
Writing Battle 7, 15, 26, 32, 45, 51, 53
Writing Battle: Autumn 2025 Short Story 53
Writing Battle: Fear 2025 Flash Fiction 51
Writing Battle: Heart 2025 Flash Fiction 7
Writing Battle: Spring 2025 Microfiction 32
Writing Battle: Summer 2025 Nanofiction 45
Writing Battle: Winter 2025 Flash Fiction 15
Writing Battle: Wonder 2025 Flash Fiction 26
Writing for Children Competition 36
Writing in the Margins Briarpatch Writing Contests 64
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Yolk Magazine 34
Yolk Montreal Fiction Prize 34
Young Alberta Book Society 24
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