Literary Competitions/Awards:

You may submit to our two literary competitions, which result in the Carter V. Cooper $15,000 Short Fiction Award, and the Gwendolyn MacEwen $3,000 Poetry Award.

Both of these are offered by The Excelsis Group, and are available at: Annual Competitions.

Both competitions and awards have a primary focus on emerging writers, but also recognize establish writers – both of which are encouraged to submit.

 

Winners and Shortlisted are also entered our pool of writers who become eligible for our Mentoring Program, undertaken in association with The Excelsis Group, in partnership with BMO Financial Group. This program is designed to take an emerging writer’s manuscript on to book publication with Exile Editions (which is unique in Canada). More information can be found at: Your Book Published.

 

The Mentors are:

Anne Michaels

A.F. Moritz

Susan Swan

Barry Callaghan

Bruce Meyer