RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Sponsored by RBC Foundation
Short Fiction category)

A prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the best work of short fiction. Two honourable mentions will each receive $1,000 prizes. Entries should be no more than 2,500 words (10 pages, double-spaced).

To be eligible candidates must be a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant, under the age of 35, unpublished in book form and without a book contract, but whose literary work must have appeared in at least one independently edited magazine or anthology.

The candidate’s name, address, telephone number and details confirming their eligibility should only appear on the cover sheet accompanying the manuscript. All pages must be consecutively numbered. Entries will not be returned.

The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2007.

Submissions should be sent to RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, c/o The Writers’ Trust of Canada, 90 Richmond Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1.

For further information please visit www.writerstrust.com or contact Program Manager (Prizes and Awards) James Davies (416.504.8222 x.245 or jdavies@writerstrust.com).