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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Call for Submissions: Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts – Dateline August 15

Submit before midnight August 15, 2022
Send the images of 6-10 items of your original, unpublished, artworks (paintings, drawings, sketches, digital art, sculpture) in .jpg, .jpeg, or .gif format not exceeding 2mb. 
Short List: Top six entries
2nd and 3rd place Winners: Honourable Mention
First place Winner: $1000

Judge: Liz Toohey-Wiese
Jury Members: Heidi McKenzie & Mariam Zohra D

Liz Toohey-Wiese is primarily a landscape painter for the last decade, her artwork and research more recently has focused on the topic of wildfires in BC. She is a professor of Fine Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she teaches drawing and painting.

Heidi McKenzie is a Toronto-based ceramic artist. In 2011 she received the Emerging Artist Award at Toronto Artists Project. Heidi has exhibited internationally, including in Romania, Hungary, Australia, Italy and USA. She received a 2017 and 2019 Craft Ontario Award.

Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts is open to Canadian citizens, members of Indigenous nations, landed immigrants, permanent residents, refugee applicants, and international students in Canada.

We encourage people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled, and financially challenged artists to participate.

View Eligibility Criteria and Submission Guidelines at the link below:
https://surreymuseawards.wordpress.com/visual-arts-award/

Surrey Muse Arts Society

surrey.muse@gmail.com

Surrey Muse Arts Society operates from the
unceded Coast Salish territories of
the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen,
Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Call for Submissions: Vera Manuel Award for Poetry – Dateline August 15

Submit before midnight August 15, 2022
Send 6-10-minute audio (.mp3) and/or video (.mp4) of your original unpublished music WITH the lyric sheets in PDF.
Short List: Top six entries
2nd and 3rd place Winners: Honourable Mention
First place Winner: $1000

Judge: Cecily Nicholson
Jury Members: Malcolm van Delst & Sana Janjua

Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books, and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She has held the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at SFU (2017), and Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor (2021).

 

Malcolm van Delst is a poet, novelist and web developer who is passionate about writing. She founded and runs the Vancouver Writers Group and chairs the Surrey Library’s Guildford Writers Circle. She has an English Literature degree from McMaster University, she later taught at Emily Carr Institute. 

Vera Manuel Award for Poetry is open to Canadian citizens, members of Indigenous nations, landed immigrants, permanent residents, refugee applicants, and international students in Canada.

We encourage people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled, and financially challenged poets to participate.

View Eligibility Criteria and Submission Guidelines at the link below:
https://surreymuseawards.wordpress.com/poetry-award/

Surrey Muse Arts Society

surrey.muse@gmail.com

Surrey Muse Arts Society operates from the
unceded Coast Salish territories of
the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen,
Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Call for Submissions: Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction – Dateline August 15

Submit before midnight August 15, 2022
Send 6-10-minute audio (.mp3) and/or video (.mp4) of your original unpublished music WITH the lyric sheets in PDF.
Short List: Top six entries
2nd and 3rd place Winners: Honourable Mention
First place Winner: $1000

Judge: Myrna Kostash
Jury Member: SheLa-Nefertiti Morrison

Myrna Kostash is a multi award-winning author of seven books of literary nonfiction, and two anthologies containing numerous essays, articles, radio documentaries and playscripts. In 2009 she was inducted into the City of Edmonton’s Hall of Fame.

SheLa-Nefertiti Morrison is an award-winning writer and poet who has published poetry, journalism, interviews and essays in various publications including Aesthetica, Room, On SPEC, The Toronto Star, The Georgia Straight and Reader’s Digest.

Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction is open to Canadian citizens, members of Indigenous nations, landed immigrants, permanent residents, refugee applicants, and international students in Canada.

We encourage people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled, and financially challenged writers to participate.

View Eligibility Criteria and Submission Guidelines at the link below:
https://surreymuseawards.wordpress.com/nonfiction-award/

Surrey Muse Arts Society

surrey.muse@gmail.com

Surrey Muse Arts Society operates from the
unceded Coast Salish territories of
the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen,
Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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Call for Submissions: Faith Nolan Award for Music – Dateline August 15

Submit before midnight August 15, 2022
Send 6-10-minute audio (.mp3) and/or video (.mp4) of your original unpublished music WITH the lyric sheets in PDF.
Short List: Top six entries
2nd and 3rd place Winners: Honourable Mention
First place Winner: $1000

Judge: Sandy Scofield
Jury Members: Kat Wahama & Jovian Radheshwar

Sandy Scofield is a multi-award winning composer, musician, musical director, singer, songwriter and performer. To mention a few, she has won five Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, an Indian Summer Music Award (U.S.A.), and she has received three consecutive Juno nominations.

Kat Wahamaa’s career has spanned over 30 years in various areas including music. She is  an award-winning performing song-writer who has released six Cd’s and has toured throughout Western Canada, Japan, UK and the United States.

Faith Nolan Award for Music is open to Canadian citizens, members of Indigenous nations, landed immigrants, permanent residents, refugee applicants, and international students in Canada.

We encourage people of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled, and financially challenged musicians to participate.

View Eligibility Criteria and Submission Guidelines at the link below: https://surreymuseawards.wordpress.com/music-award/

Surrey Muse Arts Society

surrey.muse@gmail.com

Surrey Muse Arts Society operates from the
unceded Coast Salish territories of
the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen,
Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Musqueam,
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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