Contest Details

EVENT 2010 Non-Fiction Contest

$1,500

Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in EVENT 39/3. Other manuscripts may be published.

Final Judge: TBA. Our past judges include: John Burns, Timothy Taylor, Keath Fraser, Myrna Kostash, Andreas Schroeder, Sharon Butala, Tom Wayman, Di Brandt, Terry Glavin, Karen Connelly and Charles Montgomery.

Writers are invited to submit manuscripts exploring the creative non-fiction form. Check your library for back issues of EVENT with previous winning entries and judges' comments. Contest back issues are available from EVENT for $9 (CAN$13 for overseas residents). Postage and GST included. To purchase a print copy now, visit our Online Sales.

Note: Previously published material, or material accepted elsewhere for publication, cannot be considered. Maximum entry length is 5000 words, typed, double-spaced. The writer should not be identified on the entry. Include a separate cover sheet with the writer's name, address, phone number / email, and the title(s) of the story (stories) enclosed. Include a SASE (Canadian postage / IRCs / US$1). Douglas College employees are not eligible to enter.

Entry fee: Multiple entries are allowed, however, each entry must be accompanied by a $29.95 entry fee (includes GST and a one-year subscription; make cheque or international money order payable to EVENT). Those already subscribing will receive a one-year extension. American and overseas entrants please pay in US dollars.

Deadline for entries: Postmarked by April 15, 2010.

Send entries to:

EVENT
The Douglas College Review
PO Box 2503, New Westminster, BC
V3L 5B2   Canada 
Phone: 604-527-5293 Fax: 604-527-5095
Email: event@douglas.bc.ca

EVENT 2009 Non-Fiction Contest Winners

The Editors of EVENT would like to congratulate the winners of our 2009 Non-Fiction Contest.

Nine manuscripts were chosen from 165 entries and sent without the writers= names to John Burns for final judging. The three winners are:

 

‘Alphabet Autobiografica’ by Eufemia Fantetti, Vancouver, BC

‘Asleep at the Wheel’ by Katherine Fawcett, Pemberton, BC

‘Victim’ by Ayelet Tsabari, Toronto, ON

 

The six other short-listed entries are:

 

‘Still Life: Mayne Island’ by Candice Allan, Calgary, AB

‘My Best Friend’ by Will Johnson, Victoria, BC

‘Seventeen Meditations on Chesterman Beach’ by Adrienne Mason, Tofino, BC

‘Postcard Dilemmas and Other Writing Exercises’ by David Mount, Vancouver, BC

‘One of Us’ by Mark Osteen, Baltimore, MD, USA

‘The Arms of My Inheritance’ by Barbara Irene Stewart, Victoria, BC

 

Thanks to those writers who sent manusripts to us. We look forward to reading submissions for our 2010 Non-Fiction Contest next spring. See above for details.