The Malahat Review invites creative nonfiction writers to enter the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, for which one prize of $CAN 1,000 is awarded. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world, with a final deadline of midnight (PDT) on 1 August 2019. All entries are judged anonymously, and the winning piece will be published in the magazine's winter issue #209. The Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize is awarded to the best work submitted to the magazine’s annual contest for a genre that embraces, but is not limited to, the personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction, social commentary, travel writing, historical accounts, and biography, all enhanced by such elements as description, dramatic scenes, dialogue, and characterization.
*Mailed or emailed contest submissions are no longer accepted.
Guidelines
- Writers may submit one piece of creative nonfiction per entry.
- The entry must be no longer than 3,000 words. Please double-space your work and include a word count on the first page of your entry.
- There are no restrictions on subject matter or aesthetic approach. For example, the entry may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism. (Read our Creative Nonfiction mandate here.)
- All entries are judged anonymously (no identifying inormation is to be included on any story submitted).
- Multiple entries are allowed (at a reduced fee, if paid for at the same time as the initial entry: see Entry Fees, Additional Entries, and How to Submit below).
Entry Fee
- $35 CAD for Canadian entries
- $40 US for American entries
- $45 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America
- see How to Pay for detailed instructions
- Entrants receive, for themselves or a friend, a one-year print subscription to The Malahat Review (for the initial entry only; no subscriptions are available for additional entries made along with the initial entry). Digital subscriptions and digital/print bundle subscriptions are not available through any of the magazine's contests.