EVENT 2010 Non-Fiction Contest
$1,500
Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in EVENT 39/3. 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 (CAN$13 for overseas residents). Postage and GST included. To purchase a print copy now, visit our Online Sales.
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 by April 15, 2010.
Send entries to:
EVENT
Non-Fiction Contest
PO Box 2503, New Westminster, BC
V3L 5B2 Canada
Phone: 604-527-5293 Fax: 604-527-5095
Email: event@douglas.bc.caEVENT 2009 Non-Fiction Contest Winners
The Editors of EVENT would like to congratulate the winners of our 2009 Non-Fiction Contest.
Nine manuscripts were chosen from 165 entries and sent without the writers= names to John Burns for final judging. The three winners are:
‘Alphabet Autobiografica’ by Eufemia Fantetti, Vancouver, BC
‘Asleep at the Wheel’ by Katherine Fawcett, Pemberton, BC
‘Victim’ by Ayelet Tsabari, Toronto, ON
The six other short-listed entries are:
‘Still Life: Mayne Island’ by Candice Allan, Calgary, AB
‘My Best Friend’ by Will Johnson, Victoria, BC
‘Seventeen Meditations on Chesterman Beach’ by Adrienne Mason, Tofino, BC
‘Postcard Dilemmas and Other Writing Exercises’ by David Mount, Vancouver, BC
‘One of Us’ by Mark Osteen, Baltimore, MD, USA
‘The Arms of My Inheritance’ by Barbara Irene Stewart, Victoria, BC
Thanks to those writers who sent manusripts to us. We look forward to reading submissions for our 2010 Non-Fiction Contest next spring. See above for details.
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