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Louie Leyson’s winning work is a glossary about Filipino migrant workers

“A world of motivation has suddenly popped into my life”

'Glossary for an Aswang is the kind of story that you read and immediately say, "This is the one."' Leyson will receive $6,000, attend a two-week writing residency and their work was published on CBC Books.

Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a writing residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. The winner will be announced on Sept. 21, 2023.

Here are the Canadian memoirs, biographies, essay collections and narrative nonfiction books we are excited to read in the first half of 2023.

Kelly Thompson and her older sister Meghan were close when they were children, growing up in a military family. As they got older, they forged their own paths, Kelly in

Including a gripping mystery about love and loss, a myth-busting guide to fatphobia, and a theatrical take on the inner lives of dogs

Article content QUINTE ARTS COUNCIL Why do people enter writing contests? Some enter to get practice writing to a theme or word count. Others enter to motivate themselves to finish their stories. And, of course, there are those who enter with the simple motivation: to win. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Cultivating Creativity: Wind and Water Writing Contest deadline extended Back to video With local public health officials asking people not to g...

Devour As with the festival, this issue was put together in collaboration with other brilliant minds. But really, when is this kind of work ever done alone? Firstly, I had the invalubable help of my co-assistant editors Kayi Wong and Mica Lemiski, the reviews editor Leah Golob, and the rest of the  Room collective who read submissions and proofread the issue. Secondly, this issue holds the first and second place pieces from our 2019 fiction, poetry, CNF, short forms, and cover art contests, w...