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5 writers make the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist
Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The winner will be announced on April 17, 2024.
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The 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is open!
You could win $6,000, a writing residency and have your work published on CBC Books. The deadline to submit is June 1, 2025 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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CBC Short Story Prize
The CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1. at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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CBC Nonfiction Prize
The CBC Nonfiction Prize is open between Jan. 1 until March 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.
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32 writers from across Canada make 2025 CBC Short Story Prize longlist
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Discover these poems during Poetry Month
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Memoir writing award created to honour past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalist Amy MacRae

Books by past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalists being published in 2025

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9 mistakes to avoid when submitting to the CBC Literary Prizes

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Thinking of submitting to the CBC Nonfiction Prize? Here are some tips from the 2025 jurors

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Meet the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize readers

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Zoe Whittall, Danny Ramadan and Helen Knott to judge 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize

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How writing about her medical trauma helped Kate Gies reclaim her body

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Bestselling YA author S.K. Ali to judge the 2025 First Page student writing challenge

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Books by past CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists that came out in 2024

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Thinking about entering the CBC Literary Prizes? 20 past winners share why you should

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CBC Literary Prize winners get a writing residency ⁠— Chanel M. Sutherland shares how it's life-changing

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7 ways winning a CBC Literary Prize will change your life

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16 famous Canadian writers who won CBC Literary Prizes

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The First Page student writing challenge is now closed for submissions.

Rachel Robb explores what reconciliation means to a non-Indigenous person and wins 2024 CBC Poetry Prize

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5 writers make the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist

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