Calling all creative nonfiction writers to enter this year's Constance Rooke CNF Prize. Submit your personal essays, memoirs, narrative nonfiction pieces, social commentaries, travel writing essays, historical accounts, biographies, and more.
The grand prize is $1,000 CAD and publication!
Entry fee (comes with a one-year print subscription):
$35 CAD for entries from Canada
$35 USD for entries from the USA
$45 USD for entries from elsewhere
Additional entries are just $15 each!
Meet the judge:
Emily Riddle is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. She lives in amiskwaciwâskahikan. A writer, public library worker and researcher, she sits on the board of advisers for the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nations-led think tank. Emily was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize and selected for the 2021 Writers’ Trust of Canada mentorship program. Her first chapbook is forthcoming with Moon Jelly House. Her writing has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Teen Vogue, Briarpatch, and others. During the pandemic she spent a lot of time playing mario kart, trying to keep plants alive, and making kombucha. She is currently completing a poetry book and a queer time travel novel about the fur trade. [Photo credit: Zach Ayotte]
Read an interview with her to find out what she's looking for in a winning piece.
Full contest guidelines available on The Malahat Review website.
