Click here to download these guidelines in PDF file for off-line reference. Short Fiction Contest Winner's Lists 1996-2010
FIRST PRIZE $150 increased
SECOND PRIZE $100 increased
THIRD PRIZE $50 increased
Prize Money & Publication in Choice Works and the revived CWJ.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS Receive Publication in Choice Works and the revived CWJ
Entries must be original, unpublished stories, any genre, maximum length 1,500 words (accurate word count please). Entrants must be Canadian citizens, or landed immigrants.
Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, and prepared in standard form except that no identification of the author is to appear on the manuscript itself.
Name, address and a short biography of the author are to be submitted on a separate sheet to accompany the entry.
Manuscripts will NOT be returned, they are destroyed at the end of the competition in our fireplace. Send #10 (business size) S.A.S.E. for contest results only.
Entries received too late for one deadline will be held over for the next deadline date. If you include an email address, an email confirmation that your entry has been received will be sent. A self-addressed stamped postcard would also be another way for you receive confirmation that the entry was received.
Winners to be announced and prize winning stories are published in the new annual Canadian Writer's Journal. Entry gives permission to include all the contest winners in Choice Works which is published and available separately.
ENTRY FEE: $5.00 for each story. Any number of stories may be entered as long as the entry fee is included for all of them. Only one cheque or money order is necessary for multiple entries (as long as the total matches the entry fees for the number of entries.
Entries must be postmarked by April 30th
No extensions. Entries received after the deadline for one contest will be held over to the next deadline date unless you give us different instructions.
Decisions of the Judge(s) are final, and NO correspondence will be entered into concerning them.
Send entries to:
Short Fiction Contest
Canadian Writer's Journal
Box 1178
New Liskeard, ON
CANADA P0J 1P0