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postcard story contest

Liisa Kovala
Surveillance

First Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

Carmen Siegers
Sentimental

Second Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

Ruby Woodruff
Fun & Fast

Third Prize Winner of the 18th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest

SHORTLIST: 2024 Postcard Story Contest

Announcing the 2024 Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest Shortlist! 

poltergeist contest

PolterGeist Writing Contest

Trick or treat? Fact or fiction? Send us your tall tales, little hauntings and all that dwells in between. Deadline is November 13, 2023.

Erasure Poetry Contest

Andrea Scott
Return to the Lake of Shining Waters

First Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

K.R. Segriff
June Cleaver Lies in Bed

Second Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

kerry doyle
Ghosting

Third Prize Winner of the 2022 Erasure Poetry Contest

2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest: Shortlist

Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

short long-distance writing contest

The 2024 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest

Write a story that unfolds in two or more Canadian time zones. Submit by November 12, 2024.

Short Long-Distance Contest FAQ

Your Qs, answered.

BILL ENGLESON
Fidelity

Second prize winner of the 2020 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

MORGAN DICK
Dave Standard Time (DST)

Third prize winner of the 2020 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

work shanty writing contest

Carrie Clickard
The Bookaneer Life: A Librarian’s Sea Shanty

Third prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

2018 Geist Work Shanty Shortlist

The 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest Shortlist.

Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest

Write a modern work shanty for the chance to win cash prizes and publication. We're bringing back the old timey work shanty but updated for new timey jobs. CLOSED.

Jennifer Kinnear
Sailing the Accountant Sea: A Fiscal Pirate’s Shanty

Second prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

canlit story contest

Can't Lit Without It CanLit Story Contest FAQ

Get all your questions answered here!

CanLit Short Story Contest Shortlist

Announcing the shortlist for the Can't Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest!

Can't Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest

Generate a CanLit premise at canlitgenerator.com, use the premise as the basis for a story, and win big! This contest is now closed.

tobacco lit writing contest

Father Suite

A bricklayer's daughter is banished to Hungary in Patricia Young's First Prize-winning entry to the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

JANNIE EDWARDS
Real Smoking Pleasure

"Inhale. Exhale through pursed red lips. How do you do? I’m a divorcée. A Canadian divorcée." Prize-winning Tobacco Lit by Jannie Edwards.

The Flower Lights Up

A play in one act: Guy Lafleur and Wayne Gretzky stuck in an overturned car—2nd Prize winner of the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

The Tobacco Lit Writing Contest FAQ

Get all the answers to your slow-burning questions about the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

work shanty writing contest

A Little Girl Fight

Read a story by Lorren Stewart, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about struggle and redemption on the Downtown East Side.

Tavis W. Dodds
320 East Hastings

At the homeless shelter at the First United Church, Tavis W. Dodds learns the closer to the altar, the better the sleep. Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest

The writing contest is open to all residents of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski

Read a poem by Henry Doyle, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, featuring skinny hardened rat-faced drug addicts.

Jackpine Sonnet Contest

Kidd Monica
A Large Stake

First prize winner of the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Boulez Conducts Bluebeard

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Gratitude

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Holland Marsh

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.