2013 Open Season Awards

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canadian, American, and overseas authors for our annual Open Season Awards. An exciting spring showcase of literary excellence, Open Season bestows a prize of $1,000 in each of three marquee categories: poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.

2012 Deadline

The deadline for the 2013 Open Season Awards is November 1, 2012 (postmark date).

Guidelines

  • Poetry: up to three poems per entry; maximum length for each poem is 100 lines.
  • Short fiction and creative nonfiction: one story or article per entry; with a maximum length of 2500 words. Please indicate word count on the first page. Please double space your work.
  • Entry fee required for all categories:
    • $35 CAD for Canadian entries;
    • $40 US for American entries;
    • $45 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America.
  • Entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or a friend.
  • Entrants may submit to any or all categories more than once; however, each entry must be accompanied by its own entry fee.
  • Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) must not appear on the submission, but on a separate page, along with entry title (or titles in the case of poetry entries) and genre (for prose entries).
  • Entries already published, accepted, or submitted elsewhere are ineligible.
  • The Malahat Review makes no distinction between online and print publication. Work published by an online journal, on a personal website, or in a blog is considered to be previously published.
  • No entries will be accepted by email.
  • No entries will be returned, even if accompanied by an SASE.
  • The winner and finalists will be notified via email.
  • Other entrants will not be notified about the judges’ decisions even if an SASE is enclosed for this purpose.
  • The winner and finalists in each category will be announced on The Malahat's web site and facebook page in January, 2013.
  • All winners will be interviewed. Interviews will be published on The Malahat's web site and in the March edition of Malahat lite, the magazine's monthly electronic newsletter.
  • Only the winning entries will be published in The Malahat Review’s Spring 2013 issue.
  • Inquiries to malahat@uvic.ca.
  • Send entries to:
    • The Malahat Review
    Open Season Awards
    University of Victoria
    P.O. Box 1700
    STN CSC
    Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
    Canada

    Entrants wishing to pay by credit card may download and complete our Credit Card Payment Form then enclose it with their entries.

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