Our biennial Novella Prize contest is back.

Submit your 10,000- to 20,000-word story for a chance to win CAD $1,750 and publication in our summer 2022 issue #219. Previous winning entries have also won the Journey Prize and a National Magazine Gold Award.

Entry fee (comes with a one-year print subscription):
CAD $35 for each entry from Canada *early bird discount until Dec. 31, 2021: CAD $20
CAD $45 for each entry from elsewhere *early bird discount until Dec. 31, 2021: CAD $30

Additional entries cost CAD $15 each (any writer, any country).

We're also giving away a book prize to one lucky contest entrant! All you have to do is submit your work to the contest, and you'll be automatically entered to win. After the deadline, we'll pull a name from the list of entrants.

Meet one of the judges:

Rebecca Păpucaru's short story “Yentas” won The Malahat Review's 2020 Novella Prize and was the editors’ selection for the 2021 National Magazine Awards. Short fiction has appeared in Grain and EVENT, and has been shortlisted for the Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction. Her first book, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She is this close to completing her first collection of short fiction, and is currently seeking a forever home for her first novel, As Good a Place as Any.

The second contest judge will be announced soon!

Full contest guidelines on our website.