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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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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At the May 27, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Yanli will be the Artist-At-Work creating art while readings are happening. More about the event is here: sat-may-27

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Tamar Haytayan – Surrey Muse

Tamar Haytayan is a writer and photographer working from a personal and intuitive perspective to capture candid moments of the culture of everyday life. Tamar studied photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design in UK, and her body of work spans over the last 28 years. Exploration of memory, mortality and grief has been a major theme of her work. Two of her recent projects explore the idea of fate and memory after genocide and intergenerational trauma as well as the self in middle age. She has shown at the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Art (Yerevan, Armenia), PhotoHaus Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, USA), The Women’s Art Show (Vancouver, Canada), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), Los Angeles Centre of Photography (Los Angeles), The Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, Oregon), and has collaborated with the performance artist and poet Dr. Celeste Snowber (SFU). Tamar has received an Honorable Mention for the Norval Morrisseau Award 2022. At this time, she resides in Vancouver.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Tamar will be the Featured Artist. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Josephine LoRe – Surrey Muse

Josehine LoRe is a poet, photographer and writer who has published two collections of her work, a Calgary Herald Bestseller, The Cowichan Series, and, Unity. For her first collection of poetry, Josephine received the Norma Epstein Prize for Creative Writing while in her third year at University College (UofT). Her poem ‘The Tea Set’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Room Poetry Prize. Josephine is a member of The League of Canadian Poets and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, among others. Her words have been read on stage and in global zoom-rooms, put to music, danced, integrated into visual art, and published in eleven countries and four languages. She has taught classes in creative writing for the Alexandra Writers’ Center Society and the Wine Country Writers’ Festival. Josephine writes in English, French and Italian.

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At the August 26, 2022 gathering of Surrey Muse, Josephine will be the Featured Poet. More about the event is here: friday-august-26

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Morgan – Surrey Muse

Morgan (ze/zim) is a Jewish non-binary writer, photographer and filmmaker born and raised on unceded mi’kmaq territory in Halifax NS. Ze started making films in high school, zirs first screening was at VIEWfinders International Festival for youth. Morgan went on to participate in Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative’s one minute film program, shooting and cutting on 16mm, and in 2012 became the OUTeast film festival’s Artists In Residence while working on a documentary about Halifax’s drag families. After earning a BA Honours in Anthropology and Gender Studies with a minor in Film from Dalhousie University ze moved to the Coast Salish territories (Vancouver) to pursue filmmaking. Morgan’s latest film ‘Enby’ has screened at Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), InsideOut Toronto, and it will make its international premiere at the Harvey Milk Festival. Morgan’s work explores intersecting identities through uncertainty, grief and dark humour. Ze is currently writing for PedalStreet and developing zir next project Inch by inch. 

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At the September 24, 2021 gathering of Surrey Muse, Morgan will be the Featured Performer. More about the event is here: friday-sept-24

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