Celebrate Winter Traditions with a WRITING contest from WANL!

As we did in 2021, we’re celebrating the holidays this year by toasting to our local authors! To commemorate the busy holiday season – with Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, the New Year, and more – we want to read YOUR stories!

Our 2022 theme is open to many interpretations – holidays, winter, family traditions and celebrations, and more.
We accept fiction, non-fiction, prose, poetry – all formats are welcome for submission.

The top submissions will be compiled into a holiday/winter-themed e-zine, to be distributed electronically to WANL’s membership base – now boasting over 450 members… That’s almost 1,000 eyes reading your work!
Click here to view last year’s Winter E-Zine, to get an idea!

In this E-Zine, WANL will print five stories, with prizes for the top submissions:

 1st Place: $125
 2nd Place: $100
 3rd Place: $75
Our two runners-up will receive $50 each.

Contest Details:

– Contest is open to WANL Members only.
– Limited to one entry per person.
– Entries, regardless of format, can be a maximum of 500 words.
– Poets can submit more than one poem, up to 500 words.
– Winter E-Zine 2021 winners are ineligible for entry.
– All identifying markers will be removed from entries, to be submitted to a jury who will select the top readings.

Submit your stories to info@wanl.ca, using the subject line “Winter E-Zine.”

Deadline for entries: 5 p.m. on Friday, December 9, 2022.

The e-zine will be released digitally on Monday, December 19, 2022.