John Van Rys (Niagara Branch) has won the 2022 Prairie Fire MRB Short Fiction Contest. His winning story, “Excavations,” will be published in the summer edition: https://www.prairiefire.ca/previous-contest-winners/. In December, John also had his story “Parking Spots” published in Blank Spaces: https://www.blankspaces.ca/magazines/p/december2022. Earlier in the fall, his story “The Homely Dreams of a Silly Soul” appeared in Solum Literary…
Malak Kalmoni Chehab (Toronto Branch) is in the running for The Unsealed letter writing contest. Her letter, Romancing Time, has been published on The Unsealed website and needs your votes to win the prize! Vote for Malak here: Romancing Time – The Unsealed. Malak also participated in the Facebook Live Episode 13 of Online Poetry…
Liz Rachel Walker (BC Branch) was runner-up in the 2022 Debut Dagger competition, offered by the UK Crime Writers’ Association for the opening of an unpublished manuscript, and her manuscript excerpt from The Dieppe Letters was honored as “highly commended.”
