The writing contest whose name is almost as long as the entries! Deadline is May 20, 2024.

Announcing the shortlisted entrants for the 2023 Postcard Story Contest!

Announcing the winners for the 2023 Postcard Story Contest!

Third Prize Winner of the 17th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Trick or treat? Fact or fiction? Send us your tall tales, little hauntings and all that dwells in between. Deadline is November 13, 2023.

Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Announcing the winners of the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Announcing the longlist for the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Erase an excerpt from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, into your own prize-winning poem.

Second prize winner of the 2020 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

Third prize winner of the 2020 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

Announcing the longlisted entrants for the Short Long-Distance Writing Contest!

A goalie gives his son a tour of his scarred face in the Second Prize-winning entry to the 2015 Short Long-Distance Writing Contest.

Third prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

The 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest Shortlist.

Write a modern work shanty for the chance to win cash prizes and publication. We're bringing back the old timey work shanty but updated for new timey jobs. CLOSED.

Second prize winner of the 2018 Geist Work Shanty Writing Contest.

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Announcing the shortlist for the Can't Lit Without It CanLit Short Story Contest!

Generate a CanLit premise at canlitgenerator.com, use the premise as the basis for a story, and win big! This contest is now closed.

A bricklayer's daughter is banished to Hungary in Patricia Young's First Prize-winning entry to the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

"Inhale. Exhale through pursed red lips. How do you do? I’m a divorcée. A Canadian divorcée." Prize-winning Tobacco Lit by Jannie Edwards.

A play in one act: Guy Lafleur and Wayne Gretzky stuck in an overturned car—2nd Prize winner of the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

Get all the answers to your slow-burning questions about the Tobacco Lit Writing Contest.

Read a story by Lorren Stewart, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about struggle and redemption on the Downtown East Side.

At the homeless shelter at the First United Church, Tavis W. Dodds learns the closer to the altar, the better the sleep. Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

The writing contest is open to all residents of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

Read a poem by Henry Doyle, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, featuring skinny hardened rat-faced drug addicts.

First prize winner of the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.

Honourable mention in the 1st Jackpine Sonnet Contest.