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Here's the information about the 2012 writing contests:
Please see below for printable version of the contest rules. If you have any questions, please email us.
CONTEST RULES
• Entry fee: $32. This entitles
you to a one-year (4 issues) subscription to Prairie Fire magazine.
Make cheque or money order payable to Prairie Fire and enclose
with your entry.
- One fiction entry consists
of one story, maximum 10,000 words.
- One poetry entry consists of
1, 2, or 3 poems, maximum 150 lines.
- One creative
non-fiction entry consists of one article, maximum 5,000 words.
• Deadline for all contest entries: November
30, 2012.
• Do not identify yourself on your entry. Enclose
a cover sheet with your name, address, telephone number, the title(s)
of your piece(s) and word count (prose) or line count (poetry). On occasion,
Prairie Fire Press makes subscriber names and addresses available to external
organizations. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please state
this clearly on your cover sheet.
• Your entry must be typed on 8 1/2" x
11" white paper and clipped, not stapled. Prose must be double-spaced.
No faxed or e-mailed submissions, please.
• Entries will not be returned. If you wish
to be informed of contest results, include a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
• Each piece must be original, unpublished,
not submitted elsewhere for publication or broadcast, nor accepted elsewhere
for publication or broadcast, nor entered simultaneously in any other
contest or competition for which it is also eligible to win a prize.
• You may enter as often as you like; only
your first entry in each category will be eligible for a subscription.
• Winning pieces will be published in Prairie
Fire magazine, with authors paid for publication.
Send entries to: Prairie Fire Contests, 423-100 Arthur St., Winnipeg,
MB R3B 1H3
CONTEST JUDGES
Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award:
Anne Simpson’s most recent books are the poetry collection Is (McClelland & Stewart, 2011)
and a book of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness (Gaspereau Press, 2009).
She lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and is currently at work on a novel.
Short Fiction Contest:
Marina Endicott was born in Golden, BC, and grew up in Nova Scotia and Toronto. She
worked as an actor and director before going to England, where she began to write fiction.
After London she went west to Saskatoon, then farther west to Mayerthorpe, Alberta;
she now lives in Edmonton. Her novel Good to a Fault was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize
and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean. The Little
Shadows, her new novel, was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize and was a finalist for the
Governor General’s Award.
Creative Non-fiction Contest:
Over twenty-five years, Jake MacDonald has produced ten books of both non-fiction and fiction,
and several hundred articles for many leading publications, including The Globe and Mail,
Canadian Geographic, Explore, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Maclean’s, Outdoor Canada, Reader’s
Digest, Saturday Night and The Walrus. About twenty-five of his magazine features have won
prizes for journalism. His memoir Houseboat Chronicles won three awards, including the 2002
Writers Trust of Canada prize, and his novel Juliana and the Medicine Fish was selected for
On the Same Page 2011. His latest book is Grizzlyville (HarperCollins, 2009).