Novella Prize

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere for the Novella Prize. One prize of $500 CAD is awarded, plus payment at the rate of $40 CAD per printed page upon publication. Previous winning entries have also won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Fiction and the O. Henry Prize. The Novella Prize is offered every second year, alternating with The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize.

2010 Deadline

The deadline for the 2010 Novella Prize is February 1, 2010 (postmark date).

Contest Guidelines

  • Enter a single work of fiction, with a minimum length of 10,000 words and maximum length 20,000 words. No restrictions as to genre, subject matter, or aesthetic approach apply.
  • Entry fee required:
    • $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.
  • Entries previously published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere are not eligible.
  • Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) should not appear on the submission, but along with the title on an enclosed separate page.
  • No submissions will be accepted by email.
  • No entries will be returned.
  • Entrants will not be notified separately by letter about the judges’ decisions even if a SASE is included for this purpose.
  • Winners and finalists will be notified via email.
  • Winners will be announced with the publication of their entries in The Malahat Review’s Summer 2010 issue, on the Malahat web site, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s quarterly e-newsletter, in April 2010.
  • Send entries and enquiries to:
    The Malahat Review
    University of Victoria
    P.O. Box 1700
    Stn CSC
    Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
    Canada
    Email: malahat@uvic.ca
    Telephone: 250-721-8524
    Fax: 250-472-5051

Previous Novella Prize Winners

  • 2008
  • 2006
    • Pauline Holdstock
  • 2004
    • Elisabeth Harvor
  • 2002
    • Dan Leone
  • 2000
    • Mary Swan
  • 1998
    • Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
  • 1996
    • Barbara Lambert