Opportunities

Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle

The application period for the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle began on February 18, 2025, and will end on April 21, 2025.
The 2025 program year will begin on June 2 and end on December 19.

The Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle is a six-month mentorship and workshop program for emerging First Nations, Inuit, and Métis writers in Canada looking to elevate their stories.

Emerging writers in the program are paired with Indigenous mentors who coach and guide participants through the creative process. They will help them identify and pursue opportunities aligning with their goals as writers. Participants will also benefit from immersive workshops where they will learn from some of the industry’s leading creators, publishers, content managers, writers, and marketers. Audible will provide additional support to participants throughout the program, including guidance on how participants can promote their work. At the end of the program, participants may explore opportunities with Audible depending on the stage each writer is at in their creative work and how they choose to share their writing.

Each selected emerging writer is eligible for a $ 1,500 CAD bursary to support their participation in the Indigenous Writers’ Circle, and there is no cost to participate in the program.

2025 Sage Hill Summer Writing Courses

Application Deadline: April 22, 2025
Application is open to writers 19 years of age and older from Canada and abroad.

In-Person Course
Location: St. Peter’s College, Muenster, SK
Dates: July 2 – 11, 2025
Fiction with Madeleine Thien

Online Courses
Dates: June 30 – July 9, 2025
Emerging Prose with Joshua Whitehead
Emerging Poetry with Neil Aitken
Nonfiction with Jenna Butler
Poetry with Michael Trussler
Playwriting with Vern Thiessen

For more information and to apply, visit https://sagehillwriting.ca/writing-retreats/.

Scholarships and bursaries are available for the summer programs. Many writers successfully apply for artists’ grants to fund their time at Sage Hill Writing.  For details visit https://www.sagehillwriting.ca/adults/scholarships-bursaries.

Call For Expressions of Interest: The Gallery Of Human Migration Literary Award

Application Deadline: April 30, 2025

The Gallery Of Human Migration (The Gallery) is thrilled to announce the inaugural Gallery of Human Migration Literary Award, a celebration of the transformative power of migration through storytelling. This award honours stories that explore the emotional, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of migration, fostering understanding and connection across communities. Migration is more than movement—it shapes identities, strengthens societies, and enriches cultures. Canada, as a nation, is built on the journeys of its First Nations and those who have arrived from around the globe. The Gallery seeks to honour all of these narratives!

Writers, storytellers, and others are invited to submit their Expressions of Interest (EOI) for participation in this inaugural award, sharing original, unpublished works in English that reflect migration journeys—whether of arrival, departure, or transformation.

Open Call for Submissions to Everything Matters Magazine Issue #2

Deadline for submission is May 1, 2025, at 11:59 PM PT.
Issue #2 concerns itself with BELONGINGS.

Like many of you, Everything Matters Magazine has been finding it hard to feel at home in the world these days. Against this lengthening shadow of everyday dispossession, it seems important to remind ourselves not to forget all our belongings. For Everything Matters Magazine Issue #2, you’re invited to share something in light of the thought: What’s in your pockets, and which — or even whose — pockets are you in?

Submissions may be sent in through this form. DM questions to @everythingmatters.press. Issue #2 will be released June 2025. Authors & artists of accepted submissions will receive royalties on sales.

Literary Writer’s Workshop With Sean O’Reilly at Cairde Sligo Arts Festival 2025

Application deadline is May 2, 2025.
Successful applicants will be notified by May 19, 2025.

Calling Experienced Fiction Writers! Join this exclusive Writer’s Workshop led by acclaimed Irish author Sean O’Reilly, author of the short story collection Curfew (2000) and the novels Love and Sleep (2002), The Swing of Things (2005), Watermark (2005), and Levitation (2017). Sean is a long-term teacher with the Stinging Fly Writing Workshop and has recently led fiction workshops on behalf of UNESCO City of Literature in Dublin. Sean is a member of Aosdana.

This Cairde Sligo Arts Festival 2025 is host to an exclusive week-long workshop in the west of Ireland designed for experienced fiction writers. This is an opportunity to share a work-in-progress, receive insightful feedback, and refine your craft in a collaborative environment. All work will be read by the group before each meeting. Participants may submit a new piece to develop during the workshop other than the one provided for the application.

This will be an intimate group with a maximum of 12 participants.

To apply, submit a short biography (max 200 words), a short story OR a 20-page novel excerpt, and 200 words on what you hope to achieve from the workshop, to info@cairdefestival.com.

Writing & Yoga in Andalucia, Spain 2025

May 19 – 29, 2025

This unique retreat features a balance of structured activity and free time for exploration, creativity, and rest. Mornings begin with gentle restorative yoga, followed by a locally sourced breakfast, 3 hours of generative writing delivered with the Amherst Writers & Artists method of writing workshop facilitation. Set in the beautiful nature reserve of Andalucía “Sierra de las Nieves” in Southern Spain, Molino del Rey’s luxury centre hosts this yoga & writing retreat.

$1,195 USD per person. Program includes:
Gentle, morning yin yoga practice led by Esana.
Daily guided writing practice offered by Deepam (Susan Wadds) in the AWA (Amherst Writers & Artists) method.
Optional individual written & in-person feedback on up to 10 pages of written work submitted in advance.
Optional transfer from Malaga Airport to Molino del Rey.

Meals & Accommodation:
Rates start at 1,160 Euros for shared accommodation. A private room is 1,640 Euros, to be paid on arrival at Molino del Rey. Cash or Wise are preferred. If you plan to use a credit card, an additional 1.5% is charged. Includes all meals, unlimited coffee, tea, juice, & snacks. (All locally sourced & vibrantly healthy vegetarian).

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs offer writers dedicated time and space to focus on their craft, connect with an artistic community, and receive mentorship from esteemed faculty. Whether you’re an emerging or established writer, these residencies provide a creative retreat to deepen your practice.

Comics and Graphic Novels 2025

Application deadline: May 21, 2025 | Program dates: October 6 – 17, 2025

Comics and Graphic Novels is a self-directed residency that considers how creatives use this unique media as a place for personal narrative, memoir, and exploration. The residency provides writers with the time and space to delve deep into their creative project away from the constraints of everyday life, take advantage of an artistic community of peers, and consult with experienced faculty.

Regina Public Library Invites Applications for Writer in Residence Position

Application Closing Date: May 23, 2025, at 4:00 pm CT

This is a 40-week residency, from September 2, 2025 – June 22, 2026.
This residency is to be conducted in-person in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Writer in Residence will be provided with an office in a Regina Public Library branch.

The successful candidate must spend at least 16 hours a week working with Regina Public Library to schedule and deliver individual consultations, in-person or online writing workshops and in-person or online community and school visits. The remaining time will be devoted to personal writing projects.

Remuneration: The Writer in Residence salary is $1,000 per week, to a maximum of $40,000 for the 40-week residency, with a minimum of 16 hours a week.

The Toronto Reference Library Writer in Residence Opportunity

The deadline to apply is May 23, 2025, at 4:00 pm ET.

Residency dates: Monday September 29, 2025 to Saturday November 22, 2025. Approximately 14 hours per week.
Location: Toronto Reference Library
Focus: Historical fiction for an adult audience
Remuneration: $8,000

Toronto Public Library (TPL) invites Canadian authors with experience writing Historical Fiction for an adult audience to submit responses to the Expression of Interest (EOI). The EOI documentation can be downloaded at the following link: https://torontopubliclibrary.bonfirehub.ca/opportunities/91136

Application must include: CV, summary of experience, program proposals, sample of recent published writing and two letters of reference. The successful candidate will be required to complete a Vulnerable Sector Check (cost of VSC is paid by TPL).

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs offer writers dedicated time and space to focus on their craft, connect with an artistic community, and receive mentorship from esteemed faculty. Whether you’re an emerging or established writer, these residencies provide a creative retreat to deepen your practice.

Mountain Writers Intensive

Application deadline: May 28, 2025 | Program dates: October 29 – November 18, 2025

Mountain Writers Intensive is a three-week residency for eight writers working on mountain narratives, environmental journalism, stories of adventure, or projects with an environmental theme. Writers can work in any genre, and will enjoy dedicated, uninterrupted writing time in a spectacular mountain setting, the communality of a small group of artistic peers and support from renowned faculty.

Early Career Writers of Young Adult and Children’s Books 2025

Application deadline: June 4, 2025 | Program dates: November 24 – December 5, 2025 |

This self-directed writing residency supports new writers of young adult and children’s books at varying levels of accomplishment—from not-yet-published writers to those with one published book—to improve their writing skills and expand their practice, taking it to the next level.

The Ex-Puritan is Seeking Submissions

Submissions received by June 25, 2025, are considered for the Fall issue in November.

All submissions will receive a decision within four months of the submission date.

Regular submissions to the magazine are free of charge and should fall under one of six categories: fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work. To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, email the section editors at hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca. All other submissions must go through Submittable.

Current publication rates (as of Fall 2022) are $100 per interview or review, $200 per essay, $150 per work of fiction, $50 per poem or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted, and $50+ per experimental or hybrid work (all rates are CAD).

If you haven’t heard back within four months or for any other query, email editors@ex-puritan.ca. Email submissions are not accepted and will be discarded.

See full details at https://ex-puritan.ca/submissions.

Heroines Anthology – Volume 6: Call For Submissions

Submissions close June 30, 2025.

Heroines Anthology publishes literary writing by women. The anthology focuses on telling women’s lost history, untold stories, and myths, fairy tales, folklore, or legends reimagined from the perspective of their women characters.

The special theme for this edition is witchcraft: from the history of witches and witch trials, to medicine women, mystics and herbalists, spells and enchantments, shapeshifters and familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. This volume welcomes writing on witchcraft as the old religion, remembered or imagined, and the depiction of witches in fairytale, folklore, literature and film (both good and bad) across cultures.

This will be the Heroines Anthology’s sixth edition. Before submission, writers are strongly advised to read a previous volume of Heroines Anthology to get a feel for what the editors are looking for and to check what stories and myths have already been covered. Anthology copies can be ordered at a 10% discount. All submissions are considered for the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize.

Find out more & submit at https://www.theneoperennialpress.com/heroinesanthologysubmissions.

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs offer writers dedicated time and space to focus on their craft, connect with an artistic community, and receive mentorship from esteemed faculty. Whether you’re an emerging or established writer, these residencies provide a creative retreat to deepen your practice.

Deep Winter Writers 2026

Application deadline: August 20, 2025 | Program dates: January 12 – 30, 2026

This 19-day self-directed residency offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life, delve deep into a creative project and take advantage of a community of artistic peers. Deep Winter Writers provides opportunities for consultations with exceptional mentors Holly Pester, Divya Victor, and Nasser Hussain and professional guest Joshua Rothes, as well as optional group sessions.

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs offer writers dedicated time and space to focus on their craft, connect with an artistic community, and receive mentorship from esteemed faculty. Whether you’re an emerging or established writer, these residencies provide a creative retreat to deepen your practice.

Contemporary French Literature

Application deadline: September 24, 2025 | Program dates: February 9 – 20, 2026

This 12-day contemporary writing residency will provide French citizens with the opportunity to explore craft and voice while introducing them to the North American publishing market. Participants will be able to workshop their original prose or poetry manuscripts with a faculty of accomplished writers and translators of French and English.

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program

Banff Centre’s Literary Arts programs offer writers dedicated time and space to focus on their craft, connect with an artistic community, and receive mentorship from esteemed faculty. Whether you’re an emerging or established writer, these residencies provide a creative retreat to deepen your practice.

Spring Writers Residency

Application deadline: October 15, 2025 | Program dates: March 16 – 27, 2026

Banff Centre’s Spring Writers Residency provides participants with the time and space for creative exploration away from the constraints of everyday life. Writers will be able to delve deep into their creative project, meet with a community of artistic peers, and take advantage of workshops and mentorship opportunities with faculty.

Submissions to The New Quarterly Magazine

The New Quarterly holds two annual reading periods for each genre.
Submissions sent between September 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026, will receive a response around late August.
Submissions sent between March 1 and August 31, 2026, will receive a response around late January.

The New Quarterly publishes short fiction, poetry, postscripts, and nonfiction. The New Quarterly has a range of nonfiction series that focus on the writing life: day jobs, in conversation, on writing, soundings, “The Writer at Large”, and word & image. For most of these series, works are solicited from known writers, but if you have an essay that you think would be a perfect fit for one of these series, please forward it with a cover letter to info[at]tnq.ca.

All submissions are done online and no mail-in submissions will be accepted. Submit and see full details at https://tnq.ca/submit/.

King’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction

Applications for both Creative Nonfiction and Fiction open October 15, 2025, and close March 15, 2026.

The University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is delighted to welcome applicants in both creative nonfiction and fiction to this unique limited-residency Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs. Ideal for students who wish to remain in their home communities while receiving the support, structure, and networking opportunities of one of Canada’s top MFA programs, the King’s MFA programs offer instruction in both the craft of writing and the business of publishing.

Depending on their program of study, students focus solely on either creative nonfiction or fiction, take part in in-person and online residencies, and work one-to-one with their mentor-teachers. The fiction program welcomes applicants interested in commercial and genre fiction—mystery, science fiction, fantasy, young adult, romance, and more—as well as literary fiction.

You can find out more through their website at https://ukings.ca/area-of-study/writing-and-publishing/.

Arc Poetry Magazine Submission Period

Arc accepts unsolicited submissions from poets at all stages of their writing careers during their Spring and Fall submission periods.

Arc pays for poetry at the rate of $50 per page, with which Arc secures First Cana­dian Serial Rights (meaning that the poems should not appear in any print or digital publication before being published by Arc). Upon pub­li­ca­tion, all rights revert to the author and payment is mailed, as well as one free copy of the issue in which the work appears.

Arc accepts pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English or pre­vi­ously unpub­lished translations of poetry into English, on any sub­ject and in any form. Poets may only submit once per calendar year. Poetry submissions must not exceed three poems or 360 lines of poetry. Submissions of more than one poem must be broken up into two or three files and submitted separately on Submittable, along with the poet’s biog­ra­phy. Arc only accepts poetry submissions using the online submission manager Submittable, except when otherwise indicated. Arc does not accept paper poetry submissions. Submissions received by mail will not be read and will not receive a response.

Arc aims to respond to unso­licited sub­mis­sions of poetry within four to six months. Arc cannot promise to respond to inquiries regard­ing the sta­tus of sub­mis­sions before the com­ple­tion of the submission period.

See full submission guidelines at https://arcpoetry.ca/resources/general-submissions/.

Submit to Broken Pencil Magazine

Broken Pencil is a quarterly magazine of zine culture and the independent arts based in Toronto, ON. Broken Pencil is looking for works of fiction from diverse writers (broadly defined) that conform to no principles, no guidelines, and no preconceptions. We want work that is quirky, surprising, moving, and raw. Solid, well-written, carefully considered prose showing a strong grasp of the mechanics of grammar and syntax is always a pleasure to read. To get a sense of the work Broken Pencil publishes, take a moment to read a few issues of the magazine to see if yours would be a good fit. Please, no COVID-19 pandemic stories.

Stories should be no longer than 3,000 words. Payment varies, depending on the status of finances. Pay right now is between $60 and $120 per piece.

Please be patient. Broken Pencil reads fiction submissions year round, but due to the volume of submissions, it might take a while to get back to you, but every story you send is read with consideration and care. Do not submit more than one story at a time and do not submit more than once every six months.

Read more about Broken Pencil at http://www.brokenpencil.com.

Submit your work at https://brokenpencil.submittable.com/submit.

Submit to Prism international Magazine

Submissions are accepted year-round.

Due to the high volume of submissions received each month, reply times range between six to twelve months, depending on the time of year. Prism is currently experiencing a backlog. Please do not reach out to check on the status of your submission. Your submission remains under review unless marked “declined”.

PRISM international publishes exciting, original, literary material from established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world. PRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year. Submissions must be made through Submittable and are not accepted via email or mail (the only exception is for incarcerated writers). There is a $3.00 reading fee per submission.

Click here to submit.
If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Natasha at prose@prismmagazine.ca.

Submit up to four poems, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit six one-page poems. Cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics are welcome.
Click here to submit poetry. 
If you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted, please email Dora at poetry@prismmagazine.ca.

Poetry and prose translations into English are also welcome. Such works must be undertaken with the permission of the original author. Please include a copy of the original work with your submission.

See full submission details at http://prismmagazine.ca/submit/.

Publishing House Looking for Manuscripts

Authors Get Published is an online boutique publishing house located in Toronto, Ontario. They are a full-service publishing house that publishes first-time and seasoned authors on their journey to become published authors, by providing book cover creation, manuscript editing services, formatting, and more. Distributed through Ingram, Authors Get Published work to ensure that each author’s book or books receive maximum visibility online through their website and online platforms where books are sold. If you would like to submit your manuscript for consideration, please email the Editor-in-Chief Christine at Christine@AuthorsGetPublished.com. They get back to every submission within 2 weeks. Please refer to their website for complete manuscript submission details.

Black Romance Book Club

Tanya Lee, the founder of A Room of Your Own, a national book club for at risk teen girls, introduces The Black Romance Book Club, a new subscription-based program that includes monthly book club meetings with the book authors. The Black Romance Book Club was created to promote more black romances to be written in Canada about black love taking place in Canada. Black writers and those who would like to learn how to write romance novels to start promoting black love in Canada are needed!

The program will be hybrid in person and online. It will take place at the Hamilton Art Gallery starting in September. The Black Romance Book Club costs $80/month and includes monthly meetings with book authors as well as writing workshops for anyone interested in becoming a romance author themselves. Monthly subscription fees will go towards author fees for hotel, transportation and food for in person events. This will also support hosting fees, venue space, and technology fees.  Lee has also set the subscription fees to ensure that the authors get paid their due, and fees will also go towards a donation to a domestic violence shelter.

CBC produced a radio documentary on A Room of Your Own: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/how-this-book-club-helps-teenage-girls-across-canada-discuss-tough-topics-1.6363198

CBC wrote an article about The Black Romance Book Club:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-book-club-black-romance-1.6521902

Sign up by emailing Programming@artgalleryofhamilton.com.

Atmosphere Press Call for Submissions!

Deadline: Ongoing

Atmosphere Press currently seeks great manuscripts from diverse (feminist!) voices. This year Atmosphere authors have sold thousands of books across five continents, received featured reviews with Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and have even appeared on a giant billboard in Times Square. And they’d love to see what you’ve written!

Call for Pitches to Rebel Women Lit (RWL)

Deadline: Ongoing

Rebel Women Lit (RWL) publishes discussions on contemporary literary culture, interviews with writers, reviews of publications (creative and scholarly) related to the Caribbean, the African diaspora, and Black Feminism, as well as short fiction and poetry by emerging and established Caribbean writers.

RWL invites submissions of:

• • • • • discussion essays on contemporary literary culture (700-1,500 words)
        • discussion essays on contemporary Caribbean social justice issues (700-1,500 words)
        • critical reviews of scholarly or creative literary works (1,000-1,200 words)
        • interviews with Caribbean & African authors and/or literary scholars (2,000-2,500 words)
        • poems and short fiction (maximum 4,000 words) from emerging and established Caribbean and African writers

RWL publishes one post per week and accepts submissions on a rolling basis. You are kindly asked that you do not write a piece before pitching it to the RWL editors, unless you are submitting a short story or poem for consideration in the Arts section. Please review the style requirements below and adhere to the word limits for all submissions.

Permissions:
Contributors are responsible for obtaining written permission to reprint and reproduce any material. Similarly, it is the responsibility of contributors to supply the source of all previously published material. Accepted writers will be compensated a small stipend of $20 – $30 USD for each piece.

Reviews:
Reviews should be preceded by the full name of the author, the title, city, press, and year of publication.

Interviews:
Interviews must begin with a short paragraph that includes information about the interviewee, the date and general purpose of the interview. The first question must be preceded by the full name of the interviewer and a colon, in bold. The first response should be preceded by the full name of the interviewee and a colon, in bold. Subsequent questions and responses should be preceded by initials and colons, in bold.

Pitches:
Pitches should be summarized in four to eight sentences. All pitches must include the subject of your writing or review, the main topics and/or themes to be critically explored, and the relevance to the RWL community.

https://www.rebelwomenlit.com/pitch

Call for Creative Professionals at Book Development Company Creative Connex

Creative Connex is a new book development company that assists aspiring and experienced authors to bring their story to life by delivering a print ready book. Experienced creative professionals are needed to join and complement an exceptional team, specifically freelance writers, editors, illustrators, translators, layout designers and cover designers. Experience in the publishing industry would be a huge bonus! If you or someone you know are interested, please either email Steve at info@creativeconnex.ca or call 888-470-4873.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6780528022454980609/

Creative Connex was founded on a simple vision: Provide the opportunity for an individual who has a story or an idea of a story to connect with a team of publishing professionals. Working together, they create a published book. There are a million stories out there. Let Creative Connex help you tell yours.

Grants as Additional Investment for the Arts

As announced in the Economic Statement released in fall 2020, the federal government is investing $181.5 million in the Supporting Arts and Live Events Workers in Response to COVID-19 Initiative to stimulate employment in the arts and culture sector, support ongoing operations during the pandemic, and prepare for the sustainable recovery of the sector.

Canadian Heritage will be distributing $65 million, and the Canada Council for the Arts will invest the remaining $116.5 million.

Explore and Create: Additional Funding

The Council is investing a portion of the additional one-time funding in the Research and Creation and Concept to Realization components of its Explore and Create program. Program guidelines and eligibility remain unchanged.

The Professional Development for Artists component of Explore and Create supports the career growth of Canadian artists and artistic groups by encouraging participation in a wide range of development opportunities. Grants fund activities that contribute to the professional advancement of Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines. Support for professional development activities and career advancement, including but not limited to mentorships, internships, apprenticeships, specialized training, and workshops.

The Research and Creation component of Explore and Create supports the initial stages of the creative process. Canadian artists, artistic groups and arts organizations can apply to develop and make creative works. Grants of up to $25,000 provide support for creative research, creation and project development.

Projects involving production and/or post-production of a final work must apply to Concept to Realization.

See https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants/deadlines for the cut-off dates and notification times.

Call for Submissions James Lorimer & Company

James Lorimer & Company, an independent book publisher located in Toronto, is looking for writers to contribute to their children’s and teens publishing program.

James Lorimer & Company is seeking fiction, non-fiction and graphic novel manuscripts by Canadian creators for its children’s and teens’ imprint. The goal of this publishing program is to provide engaging, accessible books for young people that address social-justice and human-rights issues as they uniquely affect Canadian society or individual Canadians. The aim is to reflect a diverse range of cultural, regional, and socio-economic experiences and issues in the books they publish. Recent publishing success include their collection of LGBTQ+ romances for teens (Real Love series), a non-fiction series on young people who have been wrongfully convicted (Real Justice series), and Indigenous titles, such as the graphic novel If I Go Missing and the young adult novel The Missing. Submissions can be emailed to submissions@lorimer.ca and should include a cover letter, a short biography outlining your past writing experience and qualifications, a plot summary or outline, a chapter-by-chapter outline and 3–4 sample chapters or a complete manuscript.

Call for Submissions to Canadian Writers Abroad Website

Canadian Writers Abroad is looking for book reviews, interviews, or pieces from writers who have lived at least six months abroad, or who have travelled to research their book. The website was founded and is still run by Canadian Authors Association member Debra Martens, and began as a volunteer project to promote the work of Canadian authors who live, or lived, outside of Canada. Debra Martens writes much of the content and openly invites others to contribute. Submitting to the site provides self-promotion opportunities but does not provide monetary payment at this time. Canadian Writers Abroad will be celebrating it’s tenth anniversary in 2021.

F(r)iction: Call for Submissions

Submission Guidelines

• • • • • Short fiction: 1,001 – 7,500 words
        • Creative nonfiction: up to 6,500 words
        • Poetry: three pages or less per poem, up to five poems per submission
        • Flash fiction: 1,000 words or less

• • • • • All genres are welcome, but especially those that celebrate the weird, take risks with form and content, and are driven by a strong, unique voice.
        • All work must be previously unpublished. This means if your work has appeared in any print or online source (this includes personal blogs, websites, and social media pages), we cannot accept it.
        • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately by choosing “withdraw” in Submittable if your work is selected for publication elsewhere.
        • Submit as many pieces as you’d like.

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia Establishes Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing Studies

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (ABPBC), in partnership with the Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University, is pleased to announce the launch of the Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing Studies, which will help support the training of emerging Indigenous publishers in Canada.

The award was established in memory of Dr. Gregory Younging (1961–2019), publisher at Theytus Books and a member of the ABPBC board of directors at the time of his death. Greg graduated from the SFU Master of Publishing Program in 2000 and later taught as adjunct faculty. A member of Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, Greg was Assistant Director of Research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and led the Canadian publishing industry in responding to their calls to action, advocating for Indigenous editorial agency and serving as a trusted resource for publishers of Indigenous texts. He was the author of The Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples (2018), now considered an indispensable resource for North American publishers. The ABPBC honoured him in 2018 with the Gray Campbell Award Distinguished Service Award, in recognition of his work as an advocate for Indigenizing Canadian publishing.

At least one award, valued at a minimum of $1,000, will be granted annually in any term to an undergraduate student who meets the following criteria:

• • • • • is enrolled full-time during the term of eligibility;
        • has declared a minor in Print and Digital Publishing;
        • is in good academic standing;
        • is Indigenous; and
        • has been actively involved in community service.

“We appreciate the support of Greg’s family for this initiative, in particular his parents, George Ing and his mother, the late Dr. Rosalyn Ing,” said Heidi Waechtler, executive director of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia. “We are proud to be able to recognize Greg’s life and legacy in this way, and to help carry on the work he did to support emerging publishing professionals.” Suzanne Norman, lecturer and industry liaison for the Publishing Program at SFU, commented, “Greg’s contribution to publishing education and his work around Indigenous editorial protocols, have been pivotal in establishing a larger space for Indigenous writers, designers, publishers, and editors in Canada. He would be so proud of this new scholarship. His work with SFU may have begun in 1997, but his contributions continue and his work will always play a large role in the future of the SFU Publishing Program.”

Additional donations to the Greg Younging Undergraduate Award in Publishing at SFU can be made through Simon Fraser University’s Advancement Department.

Submissions to Voyage Magazine