The Baico/Kaleidoscope Short Story Competition is open to all Canadian citizens and landed immigrants over the age of 18yrs. Short listed stories will be published in an anthology, conditional to receiving at least ten stories of publishable quality.
The winner will receive $200 and first place in anthology. Two runners up will each get $100 and selected authors will receive 1 complimentary copy of anthology.
Subject and word count
The stories should reflect the multi-cultural flavour of Canadian society and be between 2,500 and 3,500 words.
Deadlines
The competition deadline is December 21st 2010. A short list will be posted on the Baico Publishing website http://www.baico.ca  by the end of March and the winner and runners up will be announced by April 1st.2011.
How to enter
Entrance fee is $10.
Submissions limited to 2/person. 
 
Please send your submission(s) in hard copy to Baico/Kaleidoscope Short Story Contest, Baico Publishing and Distribution, 103-294 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 6E6
Further details contact: baico@bellnet.ca or radhikasekar@rogers.com
 
All submissions must be in font size 12 and double spaced. If selected, we will require disc copy of your story.
Include a self addressed envelope if you wish your story to be returned.