Participate in the Canada Day Challenge

Are you creative? Get inspired and celebrate your future! 

Each year, the Canada Day Challenge invites young Canadians from 8 to 18 years old to submit their best, most dynamic drawings, photos or pieces of creative writing that celebrate Canada's culture and identity, illustrate their vision of the future, and reflects their exploration and participation in their community. 

By entering the Canada Day Challenge,  you could win a trip for two to Ottawa and be a VIP Guest on Parliament Hill on Canada Day to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation!

The Challenge is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2017. Entries are being accepted until March 31, 2017.

Get all the details at www.canada.ca/canada-day-challenge

Call for Submissions-2016 Street Banner Contest

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s Street Banner Contest is back! The theme for the 2016 contest is My Home – Wood Buffalo Landmarks. The Street Banner Contest is a civic beautification program that aims to engage community members, showcase the beauty of the region and highlight local artists. Four designs will be selected by a panel of volunteer judges from the community. Winning artists will be awarded $500, and have their selected artwork displayed on street banners from May 2016 to November 2016.

Last years’ competition had 46 stunning submissions making it a difficult feat for our artist selection panel to choose only four finalists. The four finalists entries, shown above, had their selected artwork displayed on banners throughout the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in celebration of the 2015 Western Canada Summer Games.

Artists may submit their entry for the 2016 contest from January 6 until 4 p.m. MST to Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. For more information please visit the RMWB website or contact a Community Strategies Coordinator at 780-788-1489 or email beautification@rmwb.ca.

What Makes You Proud to be Canadian?

What Makes You Proud to be Canadian?

We’re asking youth from 8 to 18 years old across Canada to tell us what makes them proud to be Canadian by submitting their best, most dynamic drawings, photos or pieces of creative writing that represents everything that Canada is as a strong, proud and free nation.

Enter the 2015 Canada Day Challenge for a chance to win great prizes, including all-expenses paid trip for two to Ottawa to celebrate Canada Day on Parliament Hill: go backstage, meet some of Canada’s most inspiring people, tour museums, galleries, the iconic Parliament Buildings and be part of a special summer exhibit at the Canadian Museum of History!

Plus, there’s even more to be excited about this year! Winners will also receive the opportunity to work with the amazingly talented team of education specialists from the National Film Board of Canada to create their very own short films about their adventures in Ottawa. 

For more information please visit the Canadian Heritage website. 

The deadline is March 20, 2015

Get creative! Get inspired! And, get your entries in for the chance to experience a truly Canadian adventure
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The Canada 150 Logo Design Contest

History in the Making

The Government of Canada is getting Canadians involved in developing a logo for the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. If you have a creative spirit and would like to make history, this logo design contest is for you!

Who

The contest is open to Canadian citizens residing in Canada or permanent residents living in Canada, 18 years and older, registered at a Canadian post-secondary institution in December 2014 and/or January 2015.

What

Show your creativity! Submit your Canada 150 logo design and you could win $5,000, a display in one of Canada’s national institutions, and a chance to be part of Canadian history.

How

You can submit your design online at Canada.ca/150. 

When

The contest will end at 11:59 p.m. EST on January 23, 2015.

For more information and to enter please visit http://www.canada150.gc.ca/eng/1407417717020/ 

Canada Day Challenge 2015

What Makes You Proud to be Canadian?

We’re asking youth from 8 to 18 years old across Canada to tell us what makes them proud to be Canadian by submitting their best, most dynamic drawings, photos or pieces of creative writing that represents everything that Canada is as a strong, proud and free nation.

Enter the 2015 Canada Day Challenge for a chance to win great prizes, including all-expenses paid trip for two to Ottawa to celebrate Canada Day on Parliament Hill: go backstage, meet some of Canada’s most inspiring people, tour museums, galleries, the iconic Parliament Buildings and be part of a special summer exhibit at the Canadian Museum of History!

Plus, there’s even more to be excited about this year! Winners will also receive the opportunity to work with the amazingly talented team of education specialists from the National Film Board of Canada to create their very own short films about their adventures in Ottawa.

For more information and a list of rules please visit http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1292268977681/1292268977684

The deadline is March 20, 2015

Get creative! Get inspired! And, get your entries in for the chance to experience a truly Canadian adventure.

Canada 150 Logo Contest: History in the Making

The Government of Canada is getting Canadians involved in developing a logo for the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. If you have a creative spirit and would like to make history, this logo design contest is for you!


The contest is open to Canadian citizens residing in Canada or permanent residents living in Canada, 18 years and older, registered at a Canadian post-secondary institution in December 2014 and/or January 2015.


Show your creativity! Submit your Canada 150 logo design and you could win $5,000, a display in one of Canada’s national institutions, and a chance to be part of Canadian history.


You can submit your design online at Canada.ca/150.  Click on sections below for more details on the contest and how to enter.

The contest will end at 11:59 p.m. EST on January 23, 2015.

Contest Rules, Evaluation and Prize
Jury Members

Songwriting Contest Presented by the United Way Fort McMurray

How do we express the energy, excitement and impact of the United Way Community Campaign in a song? We need your help to put our slogan, "Change Starts Here" into lyrics and music. 

For a complete listing of the contest rules please click here

Open Season Awards- Deadline Nov. 1, 2014

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canadian, American, and overseas authors for our annual Open Season Awards. An exciting spring showcase of literary excellence, Open Season bestows a prize of $1,000 in each of three marquee categories: poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Entries may be sent by regular mail or email. When submitting by email, please ensure you include a cover letter with relevant contact details (more below under Enter by Email); do not simply put this information in the body of the email. We also ask that no personal or contact information is written anywhere on the poems themselves!

Pay only $15 for each additional entry after the first.

The deadline for the 2015 Open Season Awards is November 1, 2014.

To learn more about the Open Season Awards and the guidelines & requirements, please visit http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/contests/open_season/info.html

Vallum Award for Poetry 2014- Deadline July 15, 2014

Vallum Award for Poetry 2014

DEADLINE JULY 15, 2014 (postmark)

1st Prize: $750

2nd Prize: $250

+ publication in Vallum

Vallum is accepting original and previously unpublished poetry submissions for the Vallum Award for Poetry 2014.

ENTRY FEE:

$25 CDN for Canadian residents, $25 USD for international entrants, which includes a free one-year subscription to Vallum. Payment can be made by cheque (payable to "Vallum") or through our online store hosted by PayPal.

CONTEST RULES:

Submit up to 1-3 poems of maximum 60 lines each. Do not label your poems with your name or address; instead include a cover letter with all pertinent information. Please also specify how you heard about the contest.

Poems may be on any theme or subject, but must be original and not previously published.

1st prize is $750, 2nd $250. Both 1st and 2nd prize-winning poems will be published in Vallum Magazine and on Vallum's website. Honourable Mentions may be selected and published but are not eligible for cash prizes. 

If mailing your entry, please send it to:

Vallum

Contest

5038 Sherbrooke West 

PO BOX 23077 CP Vendome

Montreal, QC H4A 1T0 

CANADA

YOU NOW HAVE THE OPTION TO SEND CONTEST SUBMISSIONS FOR THE VALLUM AWARD FOR POETRY ELECTRONICALLY, FOLLOWING PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEE.

Please write your name, contact information, each poem's title, and how you heard about the contest in the body of the email. Include your poems in an attachment, without any identification. The contest is judged blind. Also write "VALLUM AWARD" in subject line of your email. Your contact information and poem titles must be clearly delineated.

SEND TO:  vallumcontest[at]gmail[dot]com

#Throwback Thursday @ Canada's History

If you are an active Twitter or Facebook user, you've probably seen Throwback Thursday photos of your friends from years gone by.  You've probably even posted one of yourself sporting that rat's tail or mullet hair due wearing an acid washed jean jacket and holding a Sony Walkman with your favorite mixed tape inside. Well, Canada's History Magazine has put a twist on Throwback Thursdays using historical photos of Canadian events and places.  Each week, an archival photo is posted on Canada's History Magazine Twitter account and people can tweet an answer.  One person is chosen weekly as the winner and given a free magazine subscription.  When the winner is announced, details of the photo are also released as well as links to events and occurrences that relate to the photo.  The latest Throwback Thursday photo showcased the CANOL Project at Fort Fitzgerald in 1942.  During the Second World War,  a pipeline and road were to be constructed that spanned from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories to Whitehorse, Yukon that would secure an oil supply during the war.


Although an American Initiative, the CANOL Project has its own place in our local history.  In 1942, American soldiers arrived in Waterways by train and established a military base where Keyano College is currently located.  The base, known as The Prairie, extended to the Clearwater River.  This base became a staging ground to support the CANOL project and every available local boat and barge was used to transport cargo and equipment to Norman Wells from The Prairie.

The Throwback Thursday, Canada's History Magazine contest is a really neat way to share history and have fun at the same time.   Follow Canada's History Magazine on twitter for your chance to win a free magazine subscription.  And while your having fun guessing the photo, indulge in the historical information that's presented with each photo from the week prior.


Twitter.com/Canadashistory   #throwbackthursday

This is the photo that Canada's History Magazine tweeted during Throwback Thursday contest on June 19th 

"Shakespeare Selfie" Writing Challenge ends May 9, 2014

April 23, 2014 marked the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare. To celebrate, CBC’s Canada Writes will be holding a national writing challenge and pairing it with a series of original fiction. 

Shakespeare used selfies all the time. But instead of a camera, he used a quill. From April 14 to May 9, Canada Writes will be asking Canadians to take a Shakespearean character, situate him or her in a present-day scenario, and write a new soliloquy (a speech in which the character talks to him/herself) or monologue for that character. 

What would Hamlet mutter under his breath if he had been dragged to a bad poetry-slam event? What choice bon mots would Caliban unleash after his Plymouth Reliant breaks down on the Trans-Canada? We want to know in this writing challenge. #shakespeareselfie

CHALLENGE DETAILS:

Word count: 200 to 400 words
Challenge open to Canadians aged 12 and over 
Submission period: April 14 to May 9, 2014

For more information about this contest, please click here

Summer Games 2015 "Name Our Mascot Contest"

Aboriginal Arts & Stories Creative Contest for Aboriginal Youth

Aboriginal Arts & Stories is the largest and most recognized art & creative writing competition in Canada for Aboriginal youth.

Competition Guidelines

This year's deadline is March 31, 2014. The contest is open to Canadians of Aboriginal ancestry (Status, Non-Status, Inuit and Métis) between the ages of 14-29.

New this year: our competition is open to emerging writers and artists between the ages of 11-13!

Create a writing or art piece that explores a moment or theme in Aboriginal history or culture.

A 200-400 word Artist’s or Author’s Statement that explains how your piece reflects or interprets the moment or theme you selected must accompany your entry into the Aboriginal Arts & Stories competition.

You may enter online with your desktop computer, or by e-mail, mail or fax.

For more information about this contest, please visit http://www.our-story.ca/

The New Quarterly Magazine Verse Contest- Deadline March 14, 2014

The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest: $1 000 for one glorious poem

Sponsored by TNQ editor Kim Jernigan and family in celebration of the man who sparked their love of poetry, this contest is for poems written in response to an occasion, personal or public-poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make an occasion of something or simply mark one. We are interested in light verse and in verse more sober, in the whole spectrum of tones and occasions. One of Nick's own poems, which we think captures the broadness of his (and our) sense of 'occasion', is pictured at left. For a bit lengthier background on the genre, you can also turn to Amanda Jernigan's funny and thoughtful essay on poems and occasions, linked below. Both originally appeared in Issue 100 of TNQ.

We will award a grand prize of $1,000 to the poem judged most worthy. Another $1,000 in prize money will be distributed as the judges fancy. However the prize money falls, the best of what we see will be published in The New Quarterly, at our usual rates, and posted on our website.

Entry fee: $40 for up to 2 unpublished poems, $5 each for additional poems. Submissions include a one-year Canadian subscription (or subscription extension) to The New Quarterly and may be accompanied by a brief paragraph describing the event that occasioned the poem. 

Eligiblity: Entrants must be Canadian or currently residing in Canada. Entries may not be previously published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. There are no restrictions on length or number of entries, as long as the appropriate fees are paid. Entrants anonymity will be carefully preserved throughout the judging process. The decisions will be made by August 31; winner(s) and finalists will receive notification by mail. 

Canadian Geographic "Choose the Next Cover" Contest- Ends Tomorrow!

Canadian Geographic Magazine, dedicated to uncovering Canadian stories since 1930, needs your help in choosing its April magazine cover! Contest ends February 25, 2014. 

Visit their website to select your favourite photo. By voting, you also enter a draw to win a FREE one-year subscription to Canadian Geographic!

Tackle RACISM Inter-School Contest

Street Banner Contest Deadline Extended

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s (RMWB) Street Banner Contest is a civic beautification initiative that strives to engage community members, showcase the beauty of the region, as well as highlight local artists. The 2014 contest features a call for entries from the following visual art categories:   Photography,Digital Art, Collage, Painting and Illustration, Printmaking.
There are four themes for this year's contest. Submissions must be related to the Region of Wood Buffalo.  

• Culture

• Heritage

• Parks and Nature

• Community

The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 15, 2014.  Four submissions will be selected as winners by a panel of community volunteer judges. Winners will be announced late January. Go ahead and get creative. Everyone can enter.  

Community Strategies -Beautification
9909 Franklin Ave.
Fort McMurray, AB, T9K 2K4

beautification@woodbuffalo.ab.ca (limit of 2 images per email please)

Community Strategies -Beautification

Future Forward Place
9719 Franklin Ave
Fort McMuray, AB, T9H 2K1

For more information, technical or submission guidelines, please contact Community Strategies at 780.743.7966 or beautification@woodbuffalo.ab.ca

Call for Submissions: Arts Council WB Logo Contest Nov. 16, 2013

Arts Council Wood Buffalo is launching an exciting new design contest and it wants to hear YOUR ideas! 

The Arts Council WB wants the public's help in creating a new logo for the organization.

Submissions will be taken in over the next two weeks and the design that best represents the organization, as decided by a jury, will take home $500.

For those of you who have great ideas but feel you lack artistic ability, don't worry! A graphic designer will polish the final design concept so anyone can enter the contest.

All submissions must be original, two-dimensional works and submitted as a 300 dpi .jpg or .pdf file to artscouncilwb@gmail.com. All submissions must be received by the arts council no later than Nov. 16, 2013 at noon and should include the text “Arts Council WB” and (in a small font) “Wood Buffalo". 

RMWB Street Banner Contest

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s (RMWB) Street Banner Contest is a civic beautification initiative that strives to engage community members, showcase the beauty of the region, as well as highlight local artists.

The 2014 RMWB Street Banner Contest features a call for entries from the following visual art categories:   

• Photography
• Digital Art
• Collage
• Painting and Illustration
• Printmaking

Themes:

There are four themes for this year’s contest. Submissions must be related to the region of Wood Buffalo.

• Culture
• Heritage
• Community
• Parks & Nature

Contest Deadline: Friday, November 8, 2013 

Rules and Guidelines

Click here for Contest rules, guidelines and entry form.
Four submissions will be selected as winners this fall by a panel of community volunteer judges. Winners will be announced in November 2013.

For more information:

Please contact Community Strategies at 780.743.7966 or beautification@woodbuffalo.ab.ca

YMM FMA Call for Submissions by October 18th 2013