After much reflection, we have decided to discontinue the National Capital Writing Contest. A writing contest requires many hours of volunteer time and effort—more than we had available. We also decided to encourage writers to pursue publication options for their work.

We continue to provide learning opportunities for short story writing, and we keep our members up to date, to the best of our ability, with short story publication options.

Happy writing!

Visit our Past NCWC Results page to find the names of winners of previous contests.

Past NCWC Results

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Building Community Anthology — Anthology of poetry and stories from the 2021 NCWC

Front cover of the 20/20 Vision antholoty — Anthology of poetry and stories from the 2020 NCWC

Anthology of poetry and stories from the 30th annual NCWC, 2017

Contests and Calls for Submission

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Our Anthologies

Merging Waters is an anthology of works by the members of the Poetry Circle of the Canadian Authors Association - National Capital Region. Enjoy poetry by Blaine Marchand, Tsippi Guttmann-Nahir, Kati Lyon-Villiger, Christine Beelen, Adrienne Stevenson and Arlene Somerton Smith.

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Building Community features the top stories and poems from the 2021 National Capital Writing Contest.

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20/20 Vision features the top stories and poems from the 2020 National Capital Writing Contest.

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The National Capital Writing Contest's 30th Anniversary Anthology features the top stories and poems from the 2017 NCWC.

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