Contest: Canadian Aboriginal Writing and Arts Challenge - Deadline March 31!

Are you between the ages of 14-29? (I'm not!).

If you are, you can showcase your creativity and explore your heritage. This is a major contest with great prizes and recognition for the winners.

The contest deadline is March 31, 2011. Click here for details.

Or you can call toll-free for more information: 1-866-538-4704

Pass this information along to others who might be eligible to enter.

A Few Contests

There are a few contests listed on our course web site. Here are a few more:

Grain Magazine

The New Quarterly

The Malahat Review

The disadvantages of submitting work to these contests? Well, the average entry fee is around $35, so many of us would have to pick and choose which ones we wanted to enter; otherwise, any prize money that we might receive could easily be consumed beforehand entering the contests. (It's like buying a lottery ticket for $2 and then winning $2 and saying, "Oh, I won $2." No, actually, you just broke even.)


The advantages? You might win. If you do enter, you might win. If you don't enter, you won't win. What did Wayne Gretzky say?: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." Even if you don't win, the experience of entering might be good for you.

Yikes! Look at all those deadlines coming up fast! Let's do it!