Announcement: WATER, a new contest

Our new contest is on the theme of water!

We are thrilled that editor Sandi Stromberg will choose the winner and help choose the finalists.

This ebook contains 50 artworks on the theme of water to inspire your poetry, fiction, and CNF.

The Nitty Gritty

1. Ebook is $10 Canadian dollars. It is yours to keep and covers your contest entry, too.

2. Deadline: July 5, 2023

3. Subject Line: WATER

4. Submit up to five pieces, whether poetry, flash fiction, nonfiction prose, or a combination. You can submit as many times as you wish. Another ebook purchase is your second entry, and so on.

5. Use one Word document for all of your pieces. Do not include your name on the document. Entries are read blind.

6. A selection of entries will be published on site. From those, a first place winner will be selected. The prize is $100 CAD.

7. Limit is 1000 words.

8. Your poem or story must respond to one or more of the artworks in the Water collection. You can respond in any way you are inspired to. Your work can be about the artwork or artist, or it can be inspired in any other way, such as by theme, subject, memory, or anything else.

9. Submit to [email protected].

10. The decision of editors and judges is final. 

Water: 50 Artworks Curated to Inspire Ekphrasis

CA$10.00

Fifty artworks on the theme of water, to inspire your ekphrastic writing practice.

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