The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from current University of Victoria students, UVic alumni, and greater Victoria-area writers to a one-time writing contest to mark the University of Victoria’s 50th Anniversary. First, Second and Third Prizes of $300, $150, and $100 respectively will be awarded in each of four categories: poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and dramatic monologue. The winners will be announced at the Department of Writing gala in October 2012. Winning entries will be published on The Malahat Review’s website. First-prize winners will be interviewed for Malahat Lite and the Malahat website. All prize winners will also receive a complimentary one-year subscription to The Malahat Review.

The judges for this contest are (all UVic alumni): Patricia Young (poetry), Michael Lewis MacLennan (dramatic monologue), Barbara Stewart (creative nonfiction), and D. W. Wilson (short fiction).

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Guidelines

• Eligible entrants include:
  • Current UVic students
  • UVic Alumni
  • Residents of the Capital Regional District, as defined by the CRD (www.crd.bc.ca/about/index.htm). To consult a map, please go to http://crdatlas.ca/media/8187/crd_adminbounds2009.pdf
• Poetry: one poem per entry with a maximum length of 50 lines.
• Short fiction, creative nonfiction, and dramatic monologue: one play, story, or article per entry; with a maximum length of 2500 words. Please indicate the word count on the first page.
• Entry fee required for all categories:
  • $15 CAD
  • All cheques and money orders must be made out to The Malahat Review.
  • If you want to pay by credit card, download this payment form to enclose with your entry.
• 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. Current UVic students and alumni must also provide their student or alumni number. Please also include the word count for all prose and dramatic monologue entries on this page.
• Entries already published, accepted, or submitted elsewhere are ineligible.
• No entries will be accepted by email.
• No entries will be returned, even if accompanied by an SASE.
• Entrants will not be notified about the judges’ decisions even if an SASE is enclosed for this purpose.
• No list of finalists in any category will be publicized prior to the announcement of the winners.
• The winner in each category will be announced at the Department of Writing’s Alumni’s Gala in October 2012, published on the Malahat website, and publicized in Malahat lite, the magazine’s electronic newsletter.
• Interviews with first-prize winners will be posted on the Malahat’s website.
• Winning entries will be published on The Malahat Review’s website.
• Inquiries: malahat@uvic.ca
• Send entries to:

  The Malahat Review 50th Anniversary Contest University of Victoria P.O. Box 1700 Stn CSC Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2

Deadline:  August 15, 2012 (postmark date).