Submissions Open: Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2023

Submit your stories, songs, articles/memoir, poems and artworks to the five Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2023. View the Eligibility Criteria, Submission Guidelines and the judging process at the links below:

Vera Manuel Award for Poetry
Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction
Faith Nolan Award for Music
Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction
Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts

Each award is open to Canadian poets, fiction writers, musicians, nonfiction writers and visual artists. Each award promises $1000 for the first-place winner, citations and perks for the second and third place winners, Honorable Mentions and the Longlisters.

The five Judges and 10 Jury Members will be announced during July, stay tuned.

Submissions timeline is June 1- August 15, 2023. The winners will be announced on October 28, and the awards ceremony will take place on November 25 in Surrey, British Columbia.

Last year, over 300 writers, poets, musicians and artists residing in 66 different cities in Canada, participated in this contest. View 2022 Award Winners

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Surrey Muse Program – June-November 2023

Featured art by Ann Lovell, Surrey Muse, March 2023

  Session 24
June-November 2023

June 24
Author Catherine Lewis
Poet Kyle Hawke
Visiting Author Sabyasachi Nag
Emerging Musician TBA
Emerging Poet Michele Adams
Artist-At-Work Yanli Tang
Host Mariam Zohra D

July 22
Author Cynthia Sharp
Poet Ashok Bhargava
Performer Deborah Vieyra
Emerging Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal
Emerging Musician Niki Kennedy
Artist-At-Work Yanli Tang
Host Michael Stark

August 26
Author Myrna Kostash
Poet Ivan Drury
Musician Tariq Hussain
Emerging Musician Tze Liew
Emerging Musician Brent Wagner
Artist-At-Work Yanli Tang
Host Carol Neuman

September 23
Author Dora Ducek
Poet Timothy Shay
Performer Angela Rebrec
Emerging Writer Melissa Yuan-Innes
Emerging Writer Jennifer Ashton
Artist-At-Work Yanli Tang
Host Samantha Krilow

October 28
Author Rahela Nayebzadah
Poet Tolu Oloruntoba
Musician Metronomad
Emerging Poet Dilan Qadir
Emerging Artist Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
Artist-At-Work Yanli Tang
Host Michael Stark

November 25
Author Winner, Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction
Poet Winner, Vera Manual Award for Poetry
Author Winner, Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction
Musician Winner, Faith Nolan Award for Music
Artist Winner, Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts
Host Mariam Zohra D

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Surrey Muse program is put together twice a year, in Nov/Dec for January-May session, and in May/June for June-November session. Dates are chosen by the participants through an invitation. Participants are invited from a recommendations list that stays open throughout the year. To recommend authors, poets and artist/performers to be featured at Surrey Muse, please use the online recommendations form.

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Wayde Compton – Surrey Muse

Wayde Compton is an author, editor, educator and a publisher who has written five books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015, and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. Wayde’s work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, Wayde co-founded Commodore Books, Western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. He has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-18, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer’s Studio. His latest book, The Blue Road, is a fantasy graphic novel for young adults, illustrated by April dela Noche Milne. Wayde is now working on a re-imagining of The Argonautika by Apollonius of Rhodes as a surrealist slave narrative set on the west coast of North America in the 18th century. Wayde teaches in the faculty of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster and Coquitlam.

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At the May 27, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Wayde will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: sat-may-27

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Yanli Tang – Surrey Muse

Yanli Tang (she/her) is a painter, media producer and a photographer who grew up in China and she now lives in Vancouver exploring and synthesizing her art with different mediums such as poetry, writing, woodwork, pottery, modeling, live performances, and audio-visual experiences. Yanli is actively involved in West Coast music events bringing inspiration and beauty of art on-site, live-painting performances on stage, and face/body painting for crowds on dance floor. With a decade of experience as the founder of one of the best underground record shops, music labels and band managers in China, it was a logical transition for Yanli to interact with local underground live music scene and the rave communities she loves. Yanli is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist who has been working full time in the field since 2017. This year, she is focusing on a series of big canvas paintings, a set of female photography themes, and videography.

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Eimear Laffan – Surrey Muse

Eimear Laffan is an emerging poet whose debut collection of poetry ‘aboutness’ will be published in the fall of 2023 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. In 2022, she was a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Emerging Poetry Prize and she was shortlisted for the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in Ambit, Funicular, The Ex-Puritan, wildness, and elsewhere. Eimear lives in Nelson, British Columbia.

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Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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