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Canada Writes Short Story Prize: Deadline Looms

By the Branta Webcrawler • Oct 30th, 2012 • Category: Call for Submissions, Contests, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, In Brief, Short Fiction



Call for proposals: Irving Layton Symposium

By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 3rd, 2012 • Category: Call for Submissions, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, In Brief, Poetry

“Whatever Else.” In recognition of the centenary of his birth, the University of Ottawa’s English Department invites paper proposals on any aspect of the work and life of Irving Layton.



Call for Submissions: The Imaginary App

By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 3rd, 2012 • Category: Brave New World, Call for Submissions, Editor's Picks, In the Other Arts

Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko, editors of The Imaginary App, an anthology of art and scholarship on app-computing, invite artists and designers to submit entries for a traveling art exhibition and publication of selected works in our anthology. Our exhibition will feature original icons of nonexistent apps.



Call for Submissions: 2012 SCI FI BIBLE (Tightrope Books)

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jul 1st, 2012 • Category: Call for Submissions, Editor's Picks, Ha Ha, Video



Call for Submissions: Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book And Magazine Awards

By the Branta Webcrawler • May 11th, 2012 • Category: Call for Submissions, Contests, Editor's Picks, In the Other Arts

As of 2012, the book award is valued at five thousand dollars and the magazine award is valued at two thousand dollars. Both awards are made available to freelance writers of non-fiction for social justice writing that is exceptionally well written and researched. The Book and Magazine awards provide financial support while the writer completes a book or magazine project for publication.



Geist Emerging Writer of the Month

By the Branta Webcrawler • Mar 12th, 2012 • Category: Branta Recommends, Call for Submissions

As part of our perpetual search for new readers and writers, Geist offers complimentary copies of the digital magazine to instructors and students who choose to participate in the Geist in the Classroom (GiC) program. The Emerging Writer of the Month project showcases the good writing that is being produced in Canadian classrooms.



Call for Papers: Letters for Robert Kroetsch

By the Branta Webcrawler • Feb 19th, 2012 • Category: Call for Submissions, Editor's Picks


image via rob mclennan’s blog
call via Canadian Literature



Art of the Menu

By the Branta Webcrawler • Aug 9th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Call for Submissions, From the Interweb, Graphic Stories

Our goal is to showcase great menus from around the world. They can be old, they can be new. They surely have to be great. In each showcased menu the ideal structure to the post is to show one or more photos of the menu as it exists in real life along with “flat”, digital versions so that we can all take in the typography and layout details.



Six Word Story Every Day

By the Branta Webcrawler • Apr 14th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Call for Submissions, Graphic Stories, In Brief, Typography



The First Annual Numéro Cinq Rondeau Writing Contest

By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 16th, 2010 • Category: Call for Submissions, Happenings, Poetry

The First Annual Numéro Cinq Rondeau Writing Contest opens for entries November 1. The rondeau is a slightly intricate little form (see preamble and definitions below). You should not attempt to write one under the influence of intoxicants or while using a cell phone (unless you are writing it on your cell phone).