Short Grain Contest (Grain Magazine)
From Grain Magazine
Annual poetry and fiction contest run by Grain, published by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild.
- Amount
- Up to $1,000
- Who can apply
- Individual artists
- Where you must live
- Not stated
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- 40
- Kind
- Prize or award
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Eligibility
Funder's own page (read 2026-09-28): entries “must be original, unpublished anywhere, unassisted by any AI means” and not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. No residency restriction is stated, though the fee differs by country.
What to send
Poetry (one or two poems, max 100 lines each) or Fiction (one or two stories, max 2,500 words each); every entrant receives a one-year subscription to Grain.
Not yet checked against the funder's page.
Source: https://grainmagazine.ca/contests/short-grain (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on September 28, 2026.
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