RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers 2025 | $12,000+ Cash Prizes

The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is currently open for submissions. Interested writers are required to submit their best works

2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is currently open for submissions. Interested writers are required to submit their best works in contest for cash prizes worth $12,000+.

Guidelines for RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers 2025

This award is for developing writers of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction (new!) and was established in memory of writer Bronwen Wallace. Bronwen Wallace felt that writers should have more opportunities for greater recognition early in their careers, and so this annual award is given to a writer who has published poetry or prose in a literary magazine or anthology, but has not yet been published in book form and is without a book contract. 

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

Eligibility Criteria for RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers 2025

To be eligible for the 2025 prize, a writer must be:  

A Canadian citizen or permanent resident  

Published in an independently edited literary magazine or anthology (journalistic sources are eligible provided the applicant has published literary journalism as opposed to reportage). This publishing credit must be in the genre of the category to which you apply. 

Unpublished in book form and without a book contract (a self-published book or chapbook is not disqualifying)  

To submit an entry:

For creative nonfiction and short fiction, eligible candidates should send up to 10 pages (maximum 2,500 words) of previously unpublished work. For poetry, eligible candidates should send up to 10 pages (no word limit) of previously unpublished work.

Candidates grant Writers’ Trust of Canada permission to publish their work in print and digital formats should they be shortlisted (all rights reserved by the author).  

Formatting

Give your submission one overall title. Include the title at the top of your manuscript and in the file name of your PDF, and ensure both match the name given for your submission. You do not need a title page.  

Your manuscript must not include your name or any identifying information.  

Include consecutively numbered page numbers.  

Do not use large images within your manuscript.  

Use any font you wish in 11 pt size.  

Deadline: December 16, 2024.

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