all competitions

$2,500 Prize; Winner and finalists will have their stories submitted to three Canadian magazine publishers for consideration.

Entry Fee: $29 per entry, cheque or money order made payable to The Writers' Union of Canada.

Deadline: November 3

Eligible Writers of Canada writing competition
- Canadian citizens or landed immigrants
- All writers who have not been published in book format, in any genre and who do not have a contract with a book publisher

Eligible Entries
- Nonfiction and fiction prose; up to 2,500 words, English language
- Not previously published in any format
- Multiple submissions are welcome

How to Submit Entries
- Typed, double-spaced, on numbered pages, plain 8.5'' x 11'' paper, not stapled
- Submissions will be accepted by hardcopy only
- A separate cover letter with full name, address, phone number, e-mail address, number of pages of entry, and whether submission is fiction or non-fiction. Please type name of entrant and title of entry on each numbered page.

Manuscripts will not be returned.

source: http://www.writersunion.ca/cn_shortprose.asp