Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize

The Malahat Review invites writers to enter the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize.

The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world.

Deadline: August 1, 2024 at 11:59pm PDT

One winner will receive a prize of CAD $1,250 and be published in the magazine's winter 2023 issue #225.

Entries accepted via Submittable only. (See below for instructions.)

Creative nonfiction is a genre that embraces, but is not limited to, the personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction, social commentary, travel writing, historical accounts, and biography, all enhanced by such elements as description, dramatic scenes, dialogue, and characterization.

Guidelines

• Writers may submit one piece of creative nonfiction per entry.
• Each entry must be no longer than 4,000 words (please include a word count on the first page).
• There are no restrictions on subject matter or aesthetic approach. For example, the entry may be personal essay, memoir, nature writing, etc. (Read our creative nonfiction mandate here.)
• All entries are judged anonymously (no identifying information is to be included on any submission).
• Multiple entries are allowed (at a reduced fee, if paid for at the same time as the initial entry: see Entry Fee, Additional Entries, and How to Submit below).

Entry Fee

• CAD $35 for each entry from Canada *early bird discount until June 30, 2024: CAD $20
• CAD $45 for each entry from elsewhere *early bird discount until June 30, 2024: CAD $30
• CAD $15 for each additional entry (any writer, any country)
• Entrants receive a one-year print subscription to The Malahat Review for the initial entry only (no subscriptions are available for additional entries).

Eligible Entries

• No work simultaneously submitted elsewhere, already published, or already accepted for publication is eligible for consideration (even if only excerpted, or even if revised since original publication). We consider any appearance in print or online to be a publication, including newspapers, newsletters, magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, books, websites, blogs, social media, etc. This restriction applies regardless of the size of the print run or the extent of the circulation of previously published work.
• Failure to comply with these criteria for eligibility will immediately disqualify any entry, regardless of when the ineligibility is discovered in the process of adjudication (submission, processing, screening, shortlisting, final judging).
• The entry fee for a disqualified submission will not be refunded, and the entrant will still receive a one-year print subscription to the magazine.