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- "Do you
have the write stuff?"
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- First Prize - $300
- Second Prize - $200
- Third Prize - $100
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- The Niagara Branch of the Canadian
Authors Association is holding its "Ten Stories High"
Eleventh Annual Short Story Competition, open to all Ontario
residents. Stories can be of any genre but must be previously
unpublished, and between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length. No
personal essays, memoirs, children's literature or non-fiction
please. For first Canadian rights, the top ten finalists will
have their stories published in an anthology in the fall of 2010.
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- This year, story evaluations
will only be offered to the winning entries. Entries must be
typed and double-spaced with the title appearing on each numbered
page. Please include a separate sheet with your name, address,
phone number, email address, precise word count and title. Also,
please indicate where you heard about our contest. The entrant's
name must not appear on the manuscript itself. The entry fee
is $15 per story, non-refundable. Multiple entries are welcome.
Cheques should be made payable to the Canadian Authors Association
- Niagara and mailed with your submission to "Ten Stories
High," P.O. Box 9, Grimsby ON, L3M 4G1. Judging is blind
with an impartial final judge. CAA - Niagara reserves the right
to reject excessive profanity and explicit sexual or violent
content. Submissions will not be returned. However, entrants
without internet access may include a self-addressed stamped
envelope to receive contest results.
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- The deadline for submissions
is March 31, 2010. Results will be announced in late June.
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- This year's Contest Judge is
Lynda Simmons. Living
in Burlington, Simmons teaches writing at Sheridan College in
Oakville and Ryerson University in Toronto. Her six romance novels
have been published by Harlequin/Silhouette, Kensington Books
and Sun Media, and have been translated into more than ten languages.
Her books have also been shortlisted for several prestigious
romance awards including the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice
and the Affaire de Coeur Reader’s Choice Award. Simmons'
recent mainstream novel, Getting Rid of Rosie, was published
by Berkley Books (a Penguin imprint) in 2009 and chosen as a
Book Pick by Metro News.
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- For more information, please
send us an email.
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