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bigstock-Get-Started-Crossword-11506433An annual short story contest from Carve Magazine. This 14th annual internationally renowned contest offers prizes of $2750 for five winners plus publication.

Three lit agencies will read this year’s winners and consider them for representation.

Contest details and guidelines here.

Deadline: May 15th 2013

Check out my page Open Season 2013 for more contest opportunities.

The Sketchbook Project 2013

The Sketchbook Project is a global art experience, an open invitation to people from all corners of the earth to fill the pages of a blank sketchbook. This sketchbook community is made up of people who believe art comes from anyone, anywhere, regardless of education, background and skill. The Project’s sketchbooks comprise the largest collection of its kind in the world, 75000 and counting, housed in the Library of Inspiration at the Brooklyn Art Library.

On Tour

These handmade books, the 2013 sketchbooks, are on the road, a traveling exhibition touring North America in the Project’s Mobile Library. The exhibition comes to Canada, specifically the historic Distillery District in Toronto, June 7-9.

Front CoverA Photo Log

My sketchbook is a photo log, created to show you the tale of my first and most enduring love affair. I was a teenager the first time my aunt and uncle took me on vacation in northern Ontario.  I fell in love.  And, as love has a habit of doing, it shaped me. Today, many decades later, I’m making preparations to move there full-time, to Otter Lake.  This sketchbook is a snapshot of  this wondrous place where I always feel whole.

Some Things Unexpected ♥ ♥ ♥

♥ My good friend and fellow blogger, Mary E. McIntyre, surprised and overwhelmed me with her incredible generosity.  She created a beautiful slideshow of my Photo Log. I’m sharing Mary’s gift here.

♥ Each time my sketchbook is viewed I get an email notification with the individual’s first name and the city where they live. Sounds like a small thing, but I get a thrill with every message!

♥ The 2014 Sketchbook Project is now open and accepting submissions!  Please consider participating, and if you do, please let me know in the comment box below.

bigstock-Get-Started-Crossword-11506433Why not give it a go?

Since your writings were the inspiration for this newest page on my blog “Open Season 2013“, when you enter one of the May contests, please let me know in the Comments box so we can all cheer you on!

• • •     MAY DEADLINES      • • •

1 MayFar Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Another contest from The Malahat Review for emerging short-story writers from Canada and abroad.  One prize of $1,000 (CAD) is awarded. Contest details, guidelines and previous winners can be reviewed here.

15 MayFinal Deadline for The Montreal International Poetry Prize, a grassroots non-profit organization committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building cross-national readership and to exploring the world’s Englishes. One prize of $20,000 CDN.  Read more about the competition rules here.

15 May – 11th Annual Lush Triumphant Literary Awards. From Subterrain Magazine three categories: poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.  $3,000 in cash prizes plus publication. Contest details, guidelines here.

31 May – Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize. Offered by The Antigonish Review, Canada’s Eclectic Review.  $1,200 in prizes. Contest details and guidelines here.

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