2025 EVENT Creative Non-Fiction Contest
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Genre: Writers are encouraged to explore the creative non-fiction form.
Prizes: $3,000 in total prizes, plus publication in EVENT: First Place $1,500; Second Place $1,000; Third Place $500.
Entry Fee: $34.95 per entry; includes a one-year subscription (or renewal) to EVENT and all applicable taxes and shipping.
Judge: Vinh Nguyen
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Contest Rules:
- 5,000 word limit on entries.
- Entries must not have been previously published, either in print or online, or accepted for publication elsewhere.
- No simultaneous submissions.
- Do not identify yourself on the entry.
- Multiple entries are allowed; however, each entry must be accompanied by its own CAD $34.95 entry fee.
- If already subscribed to EVENT, you will receive a one-year extension.
- Entries will not be returned.
- All entries may be considered for publication.
- If entrants wish feedback and commentary on manuscripts, please check out our Reading Service for Writers.
- Preliminary judging is done by the Editor and editorial assistants at EVENT
- Douglas College students are eligible to enter. Douglas College employees and their immediate family members are not eligible to enter.
- Entries must be submitted online (or postmarked) by 11:59 pm PT on October 15.
- For information on how to submit by mail, please visit our website's Contest page.
- Contest results are posted on our website and through social media. The winning entries and judge's essay are published in the Spring/Summer 2026 issue (55/1) of EVENT.
- For more information, contact us at event@douglascollege.ca or 604-527-5293.
- Contest terms are subject to change.