Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home
Please feel free to interpret the theme of this contest in any way that is fitting for you personally, keeping in mind the overarching theme of Dreamers Creative Writing – that of heartfelt stories.
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This writing contest is intended to honour “Dreamers” as it applies to migration, and the sense of place and home.
Submit your stories of migration and/or your sense of place, of home or lack of, and your empathy to the plight of migrants around the world.
You do not need to be a migrant to enter this contest, nor do you need to tell a migration story, you only need to empathize with the theme in some way and have a heartfelt story to tell on the topic of place and home.
This contest is open to the world.
*Submit one piece per entry; enter as many times as you want, however the entry fee is required for each piece submitted.
Deadline:
January 31 (annual)
Entry Fee:
$20.00 USD (approx. $25 CAD). Entry fee includes a 1 year electronic subscription for Dreamers Magazine.
Prizes:
The winning entry will receive $250 CAD, two copies of our magazine, and publication on www.dreamerswriting.com and in our winter/spring magazine. Up to 6 runners-up will also receive online publication and a $20 honorarium.
Guidelines and Terms:
- Enter a poem, a nonfiction or creative nonfiction piece, a personal essay, an article, a fiction story, a children’s story, a dramatic piece, a comic or an experimental piece.
- Entries should be between 15 and 4000 words and address the theme of place and home in some way.
- We are looking for unpublished, original writing (previous publication on a personal blog or social profile is fine).
- Please submit as a single file and do not include your name anywhere in the attachment.
- By accepting publication, you grant Dreamers Creative Writing non-exclusive electronic and print publication rights, including the right to publish on our website, in our archives, in any future anthologies, and in our magazine.
- Authors retain copyright and may republish following publication with Dreamers. We ask for exclusivity for 30 days.
*Published on September 2, 2018. Last updated on January 2, 2024.