Showing posts with label Writer's Trust of Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writer's Trust of Canada. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Bronwen Wallace Award shortlist interviews: Renato Gandia, Jeremy Audet + Rachel Robb,

For a while now, I’ve taken it upon myself to interview the shortlisted poets for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, as run by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. I mean, why not? Always good to get some new voices into the mix. See my 2025 interviews with Nicole Mae, Dora Prieto and Cicely Grace; and my 2024 interviews with Ashleigh A. Allen and Faith Paré. So much emerging! And be sure to watch for debut collections by each of these writers, I’m sure.

I’ve done other shortlist interviews over the years for further poetry-specific award shortlists, in case you weren’t aware, including the Trillium Book Awards, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award. If such intrigues, scroll through each of the links to see interviews with some very compelling contemporary (and award-nominated/winning) writers.

So here are my newly-posted interviews with this year’s Bronwen Wallace shortlist: Calgary-based Filipino-Canadian poet Renato Gandia, Montreal poet and editor Jeremy Audet and Toronto poet Rachel Robb.

Good luck to all! This year’s winner will be announced on Monday, June 1, 2026.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

fwd: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Supported by

RBC Foundation

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


A prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the best work of short fiction.
Two honourable mentions will each receive $1,000 prizes.

Applicants should submit 5 - 10 pages (up to 2,500 words) of previously unpublished fiction.

Submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter with the candidate’s name, address, email, telephone number, and details confirming their
eligibility, including age and previous publishing credit(s).

Manuscript pages should not include identifying information, and should be unstapled and consecutively numbered. Entries will not be returned.

By submitting to this award, candidates grant the Writers’ Trust of Canada permission to publish their work in print and digital formats. All rights reserved by the authors.

To be eligible candidates must be:
* A Canadian citizen or permanent resident
* Under the age of 35 as of the deadline date
* Unpublished in book form and without a book contract
* Previously published in an independently edited magazine or anthology

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JANUARY 30, 2012


Submissions should be sent to:

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
c/o The Writers' Trust of Canada
90 Richmond Street East, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1

For further information contact:
416-504-8222 ext 242 or info@writerstrust.com