Call for submissions: Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards

Apologies for the copy/paste here, but your web coordinator is busy these days. If time waits for no man, it should wait for women. It doesn’t.

The Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book and Magazine Awards for Social Justice Writing are seeking submissions commencing Monday, March 4, 2013. The closing date is Friday, June 14, 2013 at 5 PM PST.

Information about the awards can be found on the website www.greberwritingaward.com.

Detailed eligibility requirements can be found at http://www.greberwritingaward.com/submissions.htm

Please help us reach more writers by passing this announcement on to anyone you feel may be interested.

Thank you for your support.

Shirley Dunn, Award Developer

PWAC awards deadline extension

Short, but sweet.

PWAC National has decided to extend the deadline for the three Writing Awards (Features, Short Articles, and the Barbara Novak Award) to a postmark deadline of Thursday, March 15, 2013. Thursday, February 28, had been the previous deadline.

 There’s still time! So visit pwac.ca for the description and criteria for each of the awards and submit your entry!

Call for entries: SOGC Journalism Awards

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Awards for Excellence in Women’s Health Reporting.

The $1,000 cash prize recognizes excellence in communicating women’s sexual and reproductive health issues to the public. Categories are Broadcast and Print (which includes pieces published online).

Eligible works are those published in a Canadian consumer newspaper or magazine Canada between 1 January and 31 December 2012.

The submission deadline is March 28, 2013.

Visit the SOGC website for complete rules and selection criteria.

National Magazine Awards

We’ve just been informed that the deadline for the National Magazine Awards is approaching – fast!

Early-bird deadline (discounted fees) is January 11, with the final deadline January 16, 2013. Click on this link for all the rules, regulations, and categories.

Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards

This is the last call for submissions to the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards!

Freelance writers wishing to apply for the book or magazine award can submit their work up until Friday June 15, 2012 at 5 PM PST. This year’s Book Award has been increased to $5000!

Visit this link for more information about the criteria and the submission process: http://www.greberwritingaward.com/submissions.htm

Contact Shirley Dunn at info@greberwritingaward.com for information about the awards.

QWF non-fiction mentorship program

Here’s a copy/paste from the latest QWF newsletter…

StoryNet Mentorship Program for Non-Fiction Writers
Deadline EXTENDED to April 16, 2012
qwf.org/qwf-qahn.html

The QWF is accepting applications from English-language writers across Quebec who would like to participate in a new mentorship program designed to encourage new and emerging voices in Canadian literary non-fiction. You must be a Quebec resident to participate in this program.

Successful candidates will be invited to develop their craft by writing and polishing two short- to medium-length (1,200-2,400 word) pieces under the guidance of an accomplished professional author.

Program Mentors:
Adam Leith Gollner
Elaine Kalman Naves
Joel Yanofsky

Participants who complete the program will have the opportunity to see their works published in Quebec Heritage News magazine between September 2012 and March 31, 2013.

Registration for the StoryNet mentorship program is free but only six spaces are available. These will be reserved for applicants showing a fresh and original style matched with insight into, and understanding of, an engaging subject or subjects.

How to Apply
Submissions may be made online at http://qwfqahn.submishmash.com/submit or submitted in hard copy (4 copies of everything) to:

StoryNet Mentorship Program
Quebec Writers’ Federation
1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3
Westmount, QC, H3Z 1X4

If you are mailing in your submission, be sure to include your name, email address and telephone number (the online form will request this information as well).

All applications must contain the following:

• A brief cover letter introducing yourself and explaining why you’d like to work with a mentor. For online submissions, this text will need to be cut and pasted into the “cover letter” field on the submission website;

• A separate document, double-spaced, in two sections: 1) five pages of an unpublished writing sample – non-fiction or fiction – to demonstrate your writing style to the jury; 2) one page outlining one or more specific story ideas you would like to work on with your mentor for publication in Quebec Heritage News. Your idea(s) should touch on some aspect of the history and heritage of Quebec, but can take many forms. For example:
  • Stories of local or neighbourhood history, conveyed in a fresh manner; a personal angle is preferable to a detached, academic approach.

• Family history, brought to life with colourful writing and a critical perspective.
• Thoughtful and observant accounts of travel within the province or other encounters that have led to reflection.
• Reviews of museums or exhibitions, particularly if they involve a flair for description and personal insight.

In all cases, stories should appeal to a broad readership without sacrificing erudition. Humour is always welcome.

If you are submitting online, this second document must be uploaded as a text document (no pdfs) at the submission web site.
All submissions MUST BE IN THE QWF OFFICE, EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR PHYSICALLY,
BY 5:00 PM ON APRIL 16, 2012.

Successful applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision by the end of April 2012 and the mentorship will begin in May. It may continue for up to six months. Selected writers will receive approximately 15 hours of feedback from their mentor—about 7 ½ hours on each of two articles.

Quebec Heritage News magazine is published by the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN), which gratefully acknowledges the support of the Development of Official-Languages Support Programs Branch, Department of Canadian Heritage, which made this project possible.

For more information:
Telephone: (514) 933-0878  or email info@qwf.org

Summit Studios – Call for Entries

Summit Studios, a small Canadian publishing company that specializes in humour anthologies, is calling  for entries to  publish in 2012 and 2013. Word on the street – or cyberspace – is that Quebec writers have been under-represented in their anthologies, so they’re eager to read the work of Quebec writers which, we know, totally rocks.There’s still time, as the deadline for submissions is February 29, 2012.

According to the publisher:  “This time around we’re giving away $3,000 in cash prizes to nine winners in four distinct categories, including a $1,000 Grand Prize. The previous Grand Prize winner was Lois Gordon of the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region for her story “Antler Girls,” which appeared with some two dozen other stories in the 2010 anthology Never Trust a Smiling Bear.  For writers who do not win a prize, there is still a good chance we will publish their story if it fits our parameters. Writers maintain copyright to their work, and we pay a minimum $100 honorarium for every story that we publish.”

Interested writers should  visit  www.summitstudios.biz and download Story Contest Guidelines and to familiarize themselves with the types of stories Summit likes to publish. You’ll find several previously published stories under some of the author profiles in the Writers’ Spotlight section.

Call for submissions: carte blanche

carte blanche, literary magazine published by the QWF, is now accepting submissions for its Spring Issue (#15). If you’ve got some kind of narrative, poetry or even photographs, do submit it! They’re looking for fiction, nonfiction, translation, graphic fiction, (as well as poetry and photography).

New for this issue: Audio Submissions. Tell us a story in sound. This includes soundscape, documentary, spoken word, author readings, comedy, experimental, etc. Audio pieces do not need to contain words (although they can!) but they should have a narrative progression, i.e. a beginning, middle, and end. These submissions must be uploaded as a wav or mp3 file.

The submission deadline for the Spring Issue is March 1st, 2012. Contributors receive a $45 honorarium per published piece. Check out submission guidelines for more information: http://carte-blanche.org/submissions/.

Call for Entries: SOGC Journalism Awards

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), in collaboration with the Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health (CFWH), is calling for submissions for the 2012 SOGC/CFWH Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women’s Health Reporting. This award, consisting of a $1,000 cash prize per print and broadcast category, recognizes journalists, reporters, and producers who have excelled in communicating information on women’s sexual and reproductive health issues to the public.

To be eligible, publications or broadcasts must have appeared in a Canadian consumer newspaper, magazine or broadcast report in Canada between 1 January and 31 December 2011.  The submission deadline is March 5, 2012.

The full rules and eligibility requirements can be found on the SOGC website (here for the French version).

Call for entries: Short fiction for ZenFri Inc.

ZenFri Inc., a small Canadian creative arts company, is publishing an anthology of works titled “Warpaint” in Early 2012 and is now accepting submissions of your boldest, most unusual, and provocative short fiction.

It doesn’t matter how many times your work has been published, or if you’re simultaneously submitting, all we want is your boldest, most unusual and provocative work. Please read the guidelines below, and submit your files to submit@zenfri.com. Once a file has been submitted, you agree to the ‘Terms of Submission’ outlined at http://zenfri.com/terms-of-submission/.

Deadline: Dec 31st

Short Fiction – any piece up to 7,500 words, but you must choose a single work to submit. This work should be submitted as a .doc or .odt file.

Within a single file please include:

• A single written piece, double spaced at 12 font.
• A brief biography (up to two sentences).
• A short summary of the plot, characters, and themes in your piece.
• A publication history.
• Your name, mailing address and e-mail on the first page.

It’s our belief that each story has its own appropriate length; if you give us two mind blowing paragraphs, the piece will be weighted similarly to a longer piece with equal ‘mind blowing’ qualities.

Compensation

At ZenFri we believe in equality among publishers and contributors, therefore we’re committed to compensating the authors and artists whose work we publish. To us your work is as important as our own, which is why every contributor published by ZenFri will be paid an equal share of the revenue as ZenFri itself receives.