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Event magazine (BC) invites submissions for its annual Creative Non-Fiction contest. Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication. Length: 5000 words max. Deadline: April 15, 2009. Entry fee: $29.95 (includes subscription). More details...

Newfoundland magazine Riddle Fence is accepting poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction for its fourth issue. Submit poems (3-4 poems) and prose (1 piece; 5000 words max.). Appreciates brilliance and innovation. Payment: $30 per page. Deadline: March 2, 2009. More details...

Event magazine (BC) invites submissions for its annual Creative Non-Fiction contest. Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication. Length: 5000 words max. Deadline: April 15, 2009. Entry fee: $29.95 (includes subscription). More details...

PRISM international (BC) seeks submissions for its Visual Arts theme issue (Spring 2009). Looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction about and/or involving art. Deadline: December 15, 2008. More details...

Earth Vision invites entries of short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose and poetry for the The Earth Vision nature writing contest 2008. First Prize: $500. Theme: nature, deep ecology, or spiritual ecology. Deadline: October 15, 2008. Entry fee: US$12. More details...

The Malahat Review (BC) invites entries for their Creative Non-Fiction Prize. First prize: $500 and $40 per printed page. Submissions may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism. International writers also welcome. Length: 2000-3000 words. Entry fee: $35 (includes subscription). Deadline: August 1, 2008. More details...

Brand new magazine * is seeking poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction for their first issue (published July/August 2008). No strict guidelines; keep to reasonable lengths. Submit work in body to [email protected].

The Other Journal (US) seeks poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for their Education issue. Seeks writing that "thoughtfully considers our contemporary education system or comments imaginatively on the ways in which we learn." No payment. Deadline: May 31, 2008. More details...

Online magazine Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is accepting submissions (poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography) for its fourth issue. Deadline: July 10, 2008. More details...

Room Magazine invites entries for their 2008 Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-fiction Contest. First prize in each category: $500. Deadline: May 15, 2008. Poetry: max. 3 poems or 150 lines. Fiction: 4000 words max. Entry Fee: $27 (includes subscription); non-Canadian entries: $39.Winners will be published in a 2009 issue. More details...

Shameless Magazine co-editors are seeking submissions for an anthology for teen girls to be published by Tightrope Books in Spring 2009. Looking for creative non-fiction essays by women and trans-identified adults about how their formative teen experiences shaped them as writers and people. More details...

Room Magazine invites entries for their 2008 Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-fiction Contest. First prize in each category: $500. Deadline: May 15, 2008. Poetry: max. 3 poems or 150 lines. Fiction: 4000 words max. Entry Fee: $27 (includes subscription); non-Canadian entries: $39.Winners will be published in a 2009 issue. More details...

Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual publishing/mentoring program. Open to emerging Toronto-area writers of short stories, creative nonfiction, plays, and poems. Settings of works must include the Greater Toronto Area. Approximately 15 writers will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity. Selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto. Deadline: May 9, 2008. More details...

The Malahat Review (BC) invites entries for their Creative Non-Fiction Prize. First prize: $500 and $40 per printed page. Submissions may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism. International writers also welcome. Length: 2000-3000 words. Entry fee: $35 (includes subscription). Deadline: August 1, 2008. More details...

The Malahat Review (BC) invites submissions of creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, personal essay, and critical texts for a special Winter issue. Theme: British Columbia and its relationship to the planet (What is wilderness? What is the relationship between language and nature?). Focus on creativity over manifesto. Open to all writers (non just from BC). Payment: $40 per page, plus subscription. Deadline: June 1, 2008. More details...

Event magazine invites submissions for its annual Creative Non-Fiction contest. Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in Event 37/3. Length: 5000 words max. Deadline: April 15, 2008. Entry fee: $29.95 (includes subscription). More details...

Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly Cha seeks submissions for its third issue (publication in May 2008). Theme: Asia. Accepts poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and reviews. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...

Newfoundland magazine Riddle Fence is accepting poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction for its second issue. Submit poems (3-4 poems) and prose (1 piece; 5000 words max.). Appreciates brilliance and innovation. Payment: $30 per page. Deadline: March 31, 2008. More details...

This is the first post in a series of work from my archives, older stuff that predates this blog.

The work below I did at college, it was for a Grimm's fairy tale called The White Snake.



This image actually won an award, I was given a Highly Commended in the Macmillan Children's Book Awards 2003. I went all the way to Birmingham to be presented with a certificate and some money (I think), and to see my work exhibted with the other entrants.