Read at the Fringe Literary Contest
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival is committed to providing a venue for unpublished or modestly published writers to showcase their work. The Read at the Fringe Literary Contest is a special opportunity for aspiring writers to share their work with our audience in Eden Mills. Throughout the history of The Fringe, several contest winners have returned to the EMWF as published authors.
Deadline: June 30, 2023
This contest is now closed.
Congratulations to our 2023 Winners!
Congratulations to Doley Henderson (Creative Nonfiction), Liz Johnston (Fiction) and Pujita Verma (Poetry), the winners of our 2023 Read at the Fringe Literary Contest!
Doley, Liz, and Pujita will be reading their winning entries as part of “Emerge!” on Sunday September 10 in Eden Mills.
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Thank you to our contest judges: andrea bennett, Francine Cunningham, Laurie D. Graham, Michael Melgaard, Gillian Sze, and Emily Urquhart, and thank you to PS Guelph for printing a chapbook of the winning entries.
We would like to extend a special mention to the contest runners-up, including:
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Fiction
Elizabeth Nash, “Other Girls”
Vanessa Parks, “Millicent”
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Creative Nonfiction
Karine Hack, “My First Year with the Shrimp”
Sameen Ahmad-Wing Quan, “Say Goodbye”
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Poetry
Jane Macdonald, “Two Years Ago a Trumpeter Swan was Frozen in the Harbour”
Bruce Madole, “Somewhere in Algonquin Park”
Charlotte Blair, “This Bridge Has Room for a New House”
Congratulations to all!
Chapbook printing by PS Guelph
