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The 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize is open!
You could win $6,000, a writing residency and have your work published on CBC Books. The deadline to submit is March 1, 2025 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
December 20, 2024
CBC Poetry Prize
The 2024 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions between April 1 and June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
CBC Books
Books CBC Literary Prizes November 1, 2024
CBC Short Story Prize
The CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1. at 4:59 p.m. ET.
CBC Books
Books CBC Literary Prizes November 1, 2024
Zoe Whittall, Danny Ramadan and Helen Knott to judge 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize
The winner will receive $6,000, a two-week writing residency and have their story published on CBC Books. Submissions are open until March 1, 2025.
Daphné Santos-Vieira
Books CBC Literary Prizes January 8
The First Page
Bestselling YA author S.K. Ali to judge the 2025 First Page student writing challenge
Books CBC Literary Prizes January 21
Books by past CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists that came out in 2024
Daphné Santos-Vieira
Books CBC Literary Prizes December 19, 2024

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Books CBC Literary Prizes October 17, 2024

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Corinna Chong confronts truth and the strange landscapes of the Alberta Badlands in her fiction

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Conor Kerr, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Michael Christie to judge 2025 CBC Short Story Prize

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Books CBC Literary Prizes October 9, 2024

Aldona Dziedziejko's poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize

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Books CBC Literary Prizes November 13, 2024

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