Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers
From The Writers' Union of Canada
Established in 1993 in honour of the Union's 20th anniversary, the Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers aims to discover, encourage, and promote new writers of short prose in order to provide opportunity and exposure to developing writers.
- Amount
- Up to $2,500
- Who can apply
- Not found
- Where you must live
- Not found
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- Not stated on the funder's page
- Kind
- Prize or award
- How to get it
- Open application “"The Union submits the winning entry and those of the eleven other finalists to three Canadian magazines for consideration.”
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Eligibility
"A $2,500 prize is awarded to a Canadian writer for the best piece of unpublished prose of up to 2,500 words in the English language." not confirmed - check the funder's page
What to send
"The Union submits the winning entry and those of the eleven other finalists to three Canadian magazines for consideration."
Not yet checked against the funder's page.
Complete: all key details were found.
Source: https://writersunion.ca/short-prose-competition (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on October 12, 2026.
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