The 2006 CBC Literary Awards competition is now open. Put your talent to the test and send us your unpublished short stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Please note that this year’s deadline is November 1st, 2006.

What are the Awards?
The CBC Literary Awards competition is the only literary competition that celebrates original, unpublished works, in Canada’s two official languages. There are three categories—short story, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and $60,000 of prize money courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition, winning entries are published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and broadcast on CBC radio.

What’s new?
Please note that we have changed the word limits for the poetry category this year. Poetry submissions to the 2006 competition must be between 1000 and 2000 words.

And don’t forget that last year we replaced the travel literature category with a new category called creative nonfiction. Creative nonfiction includes memoir, biography, essay (including personal essay), travel writing, humour writing, and feature articles.