This Magazine's 12th Annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt

[rcathome]

This Magazine's 12th Annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt is on!


The Great Canadian Literary Hunt recognizes the best and brightest new fiction and poetry being produced in this country today. Win cash prizes! (Plus, get your work read by 10,000 This Magazine readers across the country, including top publishers, writers and editors.) Past winners of the Great Canadian Literary Hunt have gone on to win honours at the National Magazine Awards, the Journey Prize, they've been published by the top houses in the country and are among the hottest writers in fiction and poetry today. You could be next! Just send your entries by July 2 and join This Magazine's 42-year tradition of heralding the brightest talents in Canadian letters. Questions? Just email contests@thismagazine.ca or visit www.thismagazine.ca for more information.





Rules of Engagement


1. Original, unpublished poems of up to 100 lines and short stories of up to 5,000 words by Canadian citizens or residents are eligible.


2. First place in each category is $750 plus publication in a special literary supplement to the Nov/Dec 2008 issue of This Magazine. Second and third prize in each category is a lovely This Magazine prize pack, plus publication in the literary supplement.


3. Entry fees: $20 for one short story or two poems. Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to This Magazine (current subscribers will have an additional year added to their subscription term). Each additional entry is $5. Entry fees must be paid by personal cheque or money order payable to This Magazine.


4. Entrant's name MUST NOT appear on the manuscript itself. All entries must be accompanied by a separate cover sheet with entrant's full name, address, postal code, telephone number, email address, submission title(s) and category.


5. To receive a list of winners, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be contacted by telephone.


6. Entrants agree to be bound by the contest rules. Judges' decisions are final.


7. Entries must be postmarked no later than July 2, 2008 and mailed to: THE GREAT CANADIAN LITERARY HUNT c/o This Magazine, 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 396, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8

[Father Goose]

Hey Randy, do you know these folks at all? As soon as I saw the 20 dollar entry fee which includes a year's subscription I got a little leary. Sounds like a good way to sell subscriptions!

Not meaning to be so negatory, it's just that I've seen stuff like this before. But if you know the publication and say it's a good read I will take your word for it and maybe send something in.

[RCW]

I entered this contest a few years ago and ever since they keep sending me the announcements.

If $20 sounds steep I suggest checking it out for yourself.  They have an online site, I think.

moi

[Susan]

Hey Clint et al;

Most of the major, well-respected literary (and many counterculture) magazines have such contests. Entry fees for the more established publications are usually between 20 and 30 dollars, and it's pretty standard to give a subscription with the entry fee.

Considering the low sell-through ratio of magazines, they don't really make money from subscriptions/store sales. Money comes primarily from ad sales, and secondarily from annual fundraisers (writing contests).

And yes, _This_ is a solid magazine, not some shady operation. It's a good idea to actually read a few issues of a magazine before sending your stuff off to it, to ensure your style/type of writing is up their alley. You wouldn't want to pay a $20 entry fee to send, say, a religious rant story to a beastiality magazine -- or would you?