The New Quarterly is proud to announce The Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, sponsored by the St. Jerome’s University English Dept.

Winning Story: $1,000

Deadline: May 28, 2012

Entry Fee: $40 per submission*

For a work of short fiction by a Canadian writer in the early stages. We define a writer in the early stages as someone who has not yet published a first story collection or novel.

*Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers & Writing.
There is no word limit; all submissions are judged blind.
Though there is only one prize, all submissions will be considered for publication.

For full details, see www.tnq.ca/contests
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The New Quarterly is proud to announce The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest

$1,000 for one winning essay

We are interested in essays of any length, on any topic, in which the writer’s personal engagement with the topic provides the frame or through-line. Our only restrictions are that the work be unpublished and the writer be Canadian.

Deadline: Postmarked March 28, 2012

Entry fee: $40 per submission. Each submission includes a one-year subscription (or extension) to The New Quarterly, one of Canada’s liveliest literary magazines.

For full details, see www.tnq.ca/contests
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The New Quarterly is proud to announce The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest

$1,000 for one glorious poem

Sponsored by TNQ editor Kim Jernigan and family in celebration of the man who sparked their love of poetry, this contest is for poems written in response to an occasion, personal or public – poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make of something an occasion or simply mark one. Another $1,000 in prize money will be distributed as the judges fancy. The best of what we see will be published in The New Quarterly at our usual rates, and posted on our website.

Deadline: Postmarked February 28, 2012

Entry fee: $40 for up to 2 unpublished poems, $5 each for additional poems. Submissions include a one-year subscription (or extension) to The New Quarterly, one of Canada’s liveliest literary magazines.

For full details, see www.tnq.ca/contests