EVENT is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary journals, and a strong supporter of literary non-fiction. Stories first published in EVENT have won numerous National and Western Magazine Awards, and have been featured in The Journey Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best Canadian Stories anthologies. EVENT MAGAZINE’S ANNUAL NON-FICTION CONTEST Writers are invited to submit manuscripts exploring the creative non-fiction form. Deadline:...
Posts made in February, 2014
Calling all playwrights! Have you always wanted the chance to stage your story? The Tacchi-Morris re-launches its Page to Stage competition, a unique opportunity to develop your work for the stage. Scripts, excerpts or works in development are invited and should be no more than 20 pages in length or 20 minutes in performance time. Up to 6 entered scripts will be chosen for a performance night, with audience feedback as part of The Page is...
The Parislab, a new hour-long radio show on the digital radio station, World Radio Paris, that performs and records radio plays and spoken word shorts live in front of a Paris audience, is seeking submissions for it’s upcoming March show. The theme for the show is Superheroes. What’s your take on the superhero? Write a fiction radio play or a nonfiction narrative story about the superhero in your life. Write a radio play or spoken word...
Two Contests Pave the Way for TellitMyWay Launch! As Tell it my Way prepares for public launch, we’d like to invite children’s writers and storytellers to enter our exclusive contests, Something New to Love, which begin on February 14, 2014. Highest-scoring Original Story. Between February 14, 2014 and March 14, 2014, writers will post their own original children’s stories on Tell it my Way. A week after the posting period...
The 2014 Emerging Writers Contest will be open for submissions from March 1 to May 15, 2014. Submissions are accepted in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and the winner in each category will receive $1,000 and publication in Ploughshares. Fiction stories have a 6,000 word limit and the submission fee is $24. Please find the contest webpage here. http://www.pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest.cfm Ploughshares 120 Boylston Street Boston,...
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