Submissions are open for the 19th Annual Women’s Work Festival, 2025, closing November 1.
The Women’s Work Festival (WWF) is a week-long festival dedicated to developing, supporting, and encouraging new plays by women and other marginalized genders in Canada. (more…)
The Fiddlehead is now open for submissions!
Our editors are accepting new unsolicited works in fiction (including excerpts from novels), creative nonfiction, and poetry until November 30. (more…)
Fiddlehead Summer Fiction Contest: The Fiddlehead’s 2024 Fiction Contest is now open for submissions!
The Fiddlehead invites authors, emerging and established, to send us their best piece of writing by September 2, 2024 to be considered by acclaimed author and judge Zilla Jones. Don’t miss your chance to win $2000 and be published in our winter 2025 issue!
See the full guidelines here.
The Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA) is developing a space where Indigenous voices resonate loudly in the vibrant arts discourse. Our Digital Publications Program is more than a platform; it’s a catalyst for change, a space where narratives are reshaped, and inclusivity leads to change.
Why do we need this platform? (more…)
The Fiddlehead’s 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest is now open and closes June 3, 2024. The prize is $2,000 CAD for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay.
This year’s judge is Lorri Neilsen Glenn. (more…)
Nominations are currently being accepted for the 11th Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Nominations must be postmarked by 17 June 2024.
Those selected to be Poets laureate have made a significant contribution to Canada’s literary community through their poetry, which can be written or spoken poetry of any genre. (more…)
The NotaBle Acts Theatre Company is seeking submissions for its twenty-third annual provincewide playwriting competition.
Contest winners will have their work featured as part of the 2024 NotaBle Acts Summer Theatre Festival, to be held in Fredericton, July 25-August 3. (more…)
The annual C New Critics Award is designed to help develop and promote the work of emerging art critics.
This program gives C Magazine the opportunity to identify and support promising new writers, who often become regular contributors. (more…)
Note: You must be a New Brunswick resident to participate in the New Brunswick Writing Competition, unless you are a Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick member. WFNB members can participate from anywhere.
The program celebrates eight categories of unpublished writing in the genres of novel, short story, single poem, poetry manuscript, books for young people, and stories by teens, as well as unpublished short film script, and narrative non-fiction. (more…)
Submissions to The Fiddlehead are now open to Canadians.
The Fiddlehead publishes excellent writing in English, or translations into English, from all over the world and in a variety of styles, including experimental genres. (more…)
Ever thought about applying to the Playwriting Program at the National Theatre School (NTS)? Join program director Andrea Romaldi on January 15 for a presentation and Q&A. Learn more about the admissions process, the curriculum, what makes the program unique, and why YOU should apply.
Via Zoom on January 15, 2024 – 3 pm (AST). (more…)
PARC will be hosting the 2024 PARC Playwrights’ Retreat from May 5 – 19, 2024 in Sackville, New Brunswick on the Mount Allison University campus. Playwrights will attend in person, though some may be accommodated remotely.
The annual Playwrights’ Retreat, PARC’s flagship program, is a two-week playwrights residency open to emerging and established playwrights in Atlantic Canada and beyond. (more…)
Celebrated Canadian poet Kazim Ali will select the winner of the inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize. The winning poet’s manuscript will be published under the icehouse poetry imprint. (more…)