Surf these sites: Anvil Press International 3-Day Novel Contest -- An annual Labour Day weekend fun-fest from Vancouver. Register by Sept 3/99, write your ''novel'' and submit by Sept 10/99. $25 entry fee. Winner announced Nov. 10/99. Canadian Poetry Chapbook Competition -- $1000 prize and December 1st ''99 deadline. Submission guidelines given. Canadian Poets Association Chapbook Contest -- The Shaunt Basmajian Award: $100 prize, plus publication of your chapbook and 50 copies. Annual call for entries, up to 24 pages. Deadline April 2000. Canadian Writers'' Journal Short Fiction Contest -- $15 entry fee; deadline September 30,1999. 1st prize, $100; 2nd prize, $50; 3rd prize, $25. Canadian Youth Poetry Competition -- Deadline November 15, 19999. Prizes of $500, $350 and $250. Links to submission guidelines. National Poetry Contest -- The League of Canadian Poets'' annual poetry contest. PRISM International -- Annual short fiction contest, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers -- Sponsor by the Writers’ Union of Canada, open to "Canadian citizens or landed immigrants who have not been published in book format and do not have a contract from a book publisher". Smith''s CanLit Contests -- List of half a dozen ongoing contests, including the Quill Very Short Fiction Contest, the Prairie Fire Short Fiction contest, and the Canadian Literary Awards. TWUC Postcard Story Contest -- The Writers'' Union of Canada (TWUC) offers prizes for prose, verses or dialogue by citizens or landed immigrants. Deadlines, Feb 2000. $5 entry fee; $500 prize. TWUC Writing For Children Contest -- The Writers'' Union of Canada offers $1500 prize; deadline, April 2000. The Literary Network -- "A source and resource for Canadian and international literary writing" with a mailing list; poetry, haiku, senryu and short fiction contests; and market highlights.
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