Danuta Gleed Literary Award

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
$10,000 AWARD FOR FIRST BOOK OF SHORT FICTION

The Writers’ Union of Canada and John Gleed are pleased to announce that submissions are being accepted until January 31, 2008, for the 2007 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD for best first Canadian collection of short fiction in the English language.

PRIZE

One $10,000 prize for the best first collection of short fiction; second and third prizes in the amount of $500 each. Winners will be announced on May 24, 2008, during the Annual General Meeting of The Writers’ Union of Canada.

JURY

We are proud to announce that Genni Gunn, Donna Morrissey and Fred Wah will serve as the jury.

ELIGIBILITY

Eligible titles are first collections of short fiction written by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and published in Canada in the English language in the 2007 calendar year.

Please send five (5)of each eligible title, along with a cover page outlining author, title, and publisher to:

The Writers’ Union of Canada
90 Richmond Street East, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1

Submission deadline: JANUARY 31, 2008

Danuta Gleed’s first collection of short stories, One of the Chosen, was posthumously published by BuschekBooks in 1997. All royalties from sales of her book will go to the Award.

The Writers' Union of Canada is our country's national organization representing professional authors of books. Founded in 1973, the Union is dedicated to fostering writing in Canada, and promoting the rights, freedoms, and economic well being of all writers. For more information, please visit www.writersunion.ca

Wayne Curtis at odd sunday's

Wayne Curtis is featured at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series. (New Brunswick, the poetry province.)

Sunday, November 18, 2007, 2pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured Reader Wayne Curtis, was born near Blackville, New Brunswick, and was educated at the local schoolhouse, eventually finding his way to St. Thomas University where he majored in English. His work is "a pleasure to read, for no detail escapes his discerning eye." As well as having written six novels and many short stories, he has contributed to The Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, Outdoor Canada, and local newspapers. Winner of the Richards Award for short fiction, his stories have appeared in literary journals, including The Cormorant, Antigonish Review, and the anthology Antlantica. As well, Curtis’ short stories have been dramatized for both CBC Radio, CBC television. His publications include River Stories, Nimbus, 2000, River Guides of the Miramichi, Goose lane Editions, 1997, and Fishing the Miramichi, New Ireland Press, 1994. Rumour has it he is currently writing a novel with Doubleday Canada, Night Train to Havana, based in Cuba where in 1999 he was Writer-in-Residence at the Institution of Superior Arts. In the Spring of 2005 Wayne received an honorary doctorate degree (letters) from St. Thomas University. Besides his time in Cuba, he has lived in Southern Ontario and the Yukon, and currently divides his time between the Miramachi River and Fredericton.

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Please join the wild and crazy people of odd sundays at molly’s, at 2 pm on Sunday, November 18, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon engaged with literature. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)

Association of Italian Canadian Writers Literary Contest, 2008

Association of Italian Canadian Writers Literary Contest, 2008

Prizes!

First prize of $500, second prize, $300.00 and $100.00, third prize

Genre: Poetry

- Limit of 5 poems, each no longer than 40 lines .
- Submissions accepted in English, French, and Italian.
- Send 3 copies of manuscripts; manuscripts will not be returned.
- Entrant’s name should not appear on the manuscripts, but please provide a
separate sheet with your name, address, telephone number, e-mail and
word count.
- Manuscripts must be typed, with the title appearing on each
numbered page.
-Poems must be unpublished.
-This contest is not restricted to Canadian writers and/or writers of Italian
descent.

Entry Fee:
Non-member entry fee: $15.00 (Canadian or American).
AICW member entry fee $10.00 (Canadian or American)

Please make checks or money orders out to Association of Italian-Canadian Writers.

Winners will be announced in the AICW Newsletter and website (www.aicw.ca)

Information: e-mail Venera Fazio (vfazio5@cogeco.ca).

Send entries and fees to The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers, c/o Delia De Santis, 2961 Delia Crescent, Bright’s Grove, ON, Canada N0N 1C0.

Submissions that do not comply with the above criteria will be disqualified.

Deadline: Postmarked by Feb.15, 2008

The Poetic Licence Contest for Canadian Youth 2008

The League of Canadian Poets, a national not-for-profit poetry organization founded in 1966, invites Canadian youth to participate in its Poetic Licence Contest.

There are two age categories, junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades 10-12). First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize of $200, second place winners will receive $150 and third place winners will receive $100.

All winning poems will be published in the League of Canadian Poets’ e-zine, Re:verse at www.youngpoets.ca. All winners will receive Poetic Licence certificates and student membership in the League of Canadian Poets for one year.

Deadline: January 31, 2008.

Entry Guidelines

1. All submissions should be sent by e-mail to contest@poets.ca

2. There are two age categories: Junior, grades 7 - 9 and Senior, grades 10 - 12

3. Poems must be previously unpublished and must be your own work.

4. Length of each poem submitted must not exceed 50 lines. Limit 2 poems per poet.

5. Each submission should include the poet’s name, address, and phone number, age, grade, name of school, and the titles of the poems entered.

6. Poems should not be sent as attachments, but as plain text in the body of the message.

7. There is no entry fee.

8. Winners will be announced during National Young Poet’s Week and posted on the League’s websites www.poets.ca and www.youngpoets.ca

9. Announcements will be sent to the media, and the winners will be notified by mail and email.

Copyright remains with the poet. Winners will be asked for the first rights to publish their work. Should an entry be published elsewhere during the course of the contest, we ask that the entrant notify the League immediately. Revisions on any poem will not be accepted after it has been entered. All decisions of the jury are final. Contest is open to Canadian citizens and landed immigrants. Members of the League’s National Council, staff or the contest judges or their families are not eligible to enter these competitions.

* Incomplete submissions will not be considered, please read guidelines carefully.

odd sundays featuring Robert Gibbs

Poetry reading: Bringing back Robert Gibbs as featured reader at odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series! (New Brunswick is Canada’s poetry province !)

Sunday, November 4, 2007, 2pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton
(with guest emcee Robert Hawkes, thank you Robert Hawkes)

Featured Reader Robert Gibbs was born in Saint John. He went to Cambridge University and to the University of New Brunswick, after which he taught at UNB in the department of English for many years. Students who studied under him, and writers who participated in his classes at the Maritime Writers’ Workshop, speak eloquently of his gifts of attention and guidance. For years he edited The Fiddlehead, Canada’s most famous literary magazine, promoting writers and poetry and endearing himself to the literary world. Gibbs’ poems have been called elegies for life and his short stories have been widely published and broadcast on CBC Radio. Alden Nowlan said that Gibbs is: “Canada’s most under-estimated poet.” Well, we in Fredericton adore him.

Gibbs has published eight books of poetry as well as a collection of stories and a novel. As the literary executor of the Alden Nowlan estate, he has edited two collections of Nowlan’s essays. Among his publications are: A Mouthorgan for Angels (fantasy), Oberon Press, 1984, An Exchange of Gifts: Poems New and Selected, Irwin, 1985, Earth Aches, Broken Jaw Press, 1995, The Tongue Still Dances: Poems New and Selected, Fiddlehead Poetry Books/Goose Lane Editions, 1985.

“His poems contain sensual and witty descroptions of human and non-human landscapes, subtle insights into relationships, and a sophisticated understanding of the workings of the mind. . .” M. Travis Lane, The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.

With affection and great respect, we welcome Robert Gibbs to odd sundays at molly’s. A cold pre-empted his attendance in March of this year, and we are so happy to welcome him to this autumn reading.

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, November 4, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon engaged with literature. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)