Deadline: November 1, 2014 (postmarked or emailed)
Prize: $3,000 over three categories: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Entry fee:
$35 CAD for residents of Canada
$40 USD for residents of the USA
$45 USD for entries from elsewhere

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction - we want it all. Send us your best work by November 1 to win cash, publication, and an online interview. We'll promote your work long afterward to showcase our writers and writing contests!

*$15 for each additional entry (mixing genres is acceptable), regardless of where you live

(entry fee for first entry only includes a one-year subscription or renewal extension to The Malahat Review)

Online submissions are accepted and welcome :)

Full contest guidelines available on the Malahat website.

Read interviews with the Judges!

Deep Places and Spaces: Poetry judge Jan Conn in Conversation with Phoebe Wang

Honouring the Writer's Imagination: Fiction judge Cynthia Flood in Conversation with Cody Klippenstein

Freedom from the Outside World: Creative Nonfiction judge David Carpenter in Conversation with Heike Lettrari