Calls for Submissions and Etc

In the Indie Writers’ Deathmatch, the top eight entrants selected by Broken Pencil are pitted against each other two by two. The winning story is decided by Broken Pencil readers themselves, through a vote on the official magazine website. Each week, two stories will be pitted against each other in the online arena, where anyone and everyone can read them and vote on which one deserves to reign supreme.

This year the Deathmatch winner gets a prize pack including a consulation with literary agent Sam Hiyate of the Rights Factory, a feedback session with novelist and Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith and a feedback session with one of Canada’s top independent presses. All this plus publication in Broken Pencil and cash! The top 3 runners-up get $100 and publication in Spring 2013 issue of Broken Pencil Magazine!

Check here for complete contest rules and regulations. Deadline to enter: December 31, 2012

Killam Library Artist Residency (Halifax, NS)

Six week residency, January 21 – March 1, 2013. Application deadline: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at midnight. The Killam Library is architecturally distinct internally and externally. Completed in 1971 in the Brutalist style, the lack of exterior windows is in sharp contrast to the interior glass courtyard filled with greenery. The slate floors and concrete or glass walls bounce sound through a space intended for research and quiet contemplation. These contradictory architectural qualities are intriguing potentials for an artist to consider, as are the notions of libraries as repositories of knowledge, the physicality of books themselves, student interactions, and the notion of multidisciplinarity. This library is active visually, aurally, socially, and academically.

Your digital only application should include:

A 250 word description of your proposed project
5 images (each file no larger than 400 kb) / short video or sound files (links to online files) / documents of previous and/or proposed work
CV (no longer than 3 pages)

Send to: [email protected].

Thematic Residences and Banff Artist-in-Residence Program (Banff, AL)

AMAZING new programs are open at the Banff Centre right now, including “Society Is A Workshop,” a program that explores the “physical and metaphoric docks, as well as practices of docking in art, culture, design, critical theory, cultural studies” and a wonderful Artist-In-Residency program. Go to the Banff Centre website for more information and deadlines.

Guest Programmer, aluCine Latin Film and Arts Media Festival (Toronto, ON)

aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival is seekign a guest programmer for the thirteenth edition of aluCine in March! If you or someone you know has a strong knowledge of contemporary Latino-Canadian film, then you may be a candidate for the curation of a program of new Canadian content to be screened at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall as part of Canada’s longest running Latino film festival. The selected programmer will be compensated for their efforts. Please email communications@alucinefestival.com for more information.

Call for Submissions: Chrysalis Zine (Ottawa, ON)

Ottawa’s Chrysalis Zine is looking for submissions for its third issue, with the theme “Impressions.” Please include a brief bio separately from your submission document. Do not put your name on your submission document. Visual artists, please send your submissions in jpeg format. We will be publishing a limited
number of colour pages. Deadline is Friday, December 14th. Please submit work to [email protected]. We are also always looking for reviews of art, music and literature for the Chrysalis blog.

Friends of Merrill Short Story Contest

This very cool speculative fiction contest is seeking innovative, inclusive, original fiction. Prizes include cash ($350 CDN total), chances to pitch a novel to ChiZine Publications, and more. Length: 5000 words max. Entry fee: $5 per entry. Deadline February 15, 2013. Learn more at the contest’s website.