Senator Don Oliver Black Voices Prize
From Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Introduced in 2023, the Senator Don Oliver Black Voices Prize ($5,000) is awarded each year to an emerging or early-career writer who is Black and/or African Nova Scotian and whose book-length work-in-progress shows promise and career-advancing merit.
- Amount
- Not stated
- Who can apply
- Individual artists
- Where you must live
- Nova Scotia
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- $50
- Kind
- Prize or award
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Eligibility
Prize eligibility recognizes the barriers to literary creation & recognition faced by Black and African Nova Scotian writers—who have faced and continue to face systemic inequity within Canadian publishing..
What to send
Not stated
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Source: https://writers.ns.ca/programs/emerging-writers-prizes/oliver-prize/ (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on September 27, 2026.
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