Call for Submissions
The Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers aims to discover, encourage, and promote new writers of short prose. The winner is awarded $2,500. Deadline: February 16, 2026.
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For writers, who so often work in isolation, the Union provides a crucial rallying call to collective action.
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Bianca Lakoseljac
Silence Is Full of Sound (Novmber, 2025, Ekstasis Editions) is a collection of ekphrastic, narrative, and lyric poetry that takes the reader from the Emily Carr and Friends sculpture in Yorkville; to the Glenn Gould bronze in downtown Toronto; to Hemingway’s statue in Havana; to…
