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

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Hya Sheikh – Surrey Muse

Hya Sheikh is a poet, writer and visual artist who has recently earned an Honorable Mention for the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022. Much of her creative work is centered around mental illness, emotional hardship, and unraveling the ‘other. Informed by personal experiences and being a minority in more ways than one, Hya finds expression in poetry, writing and art, and she is passionate about social justice, intersectional feminism and mental health. When she’s not petting cats or listening to metal, Hya finds herself articulating and disentangling the emotional, personal and social, weaving narratives, poems and visual illustrations of how the realms interject. Hya has a Bachelor’s in Sociology from the University of Toronto where she now works as an Academic Counselor.

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At the February 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Hya will feature as an Emerging Poet. More about the event is here: saturday-feb-25

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Shortlists – Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2022

Surrey Muse Arts Society has announced the short and long lists for the five Surrey Muse Art & Literature Awards 2022. Below are the five Shortlist, in alphabetical order.

Shortlist

Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022

‘Watching the Swans’ by Lucy E.M. Black, Port Perry ON

‘We Are Not Seahorses’ by K.R. Byggdin, Halifax NS

‘The Boy’ by Samantha Krilow, Surrey BC

‘Nightshade’ by Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Toronto ON

‘The Stoner Files’ by Cynthis Sharp, Vancouver BC

‘White Snow and Seven Dreams’ by Melissa Yuan-Innes, North Lancaster ON

View Longlist, Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022

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Shortlist

Faith Nolan Award for Music 2022

Entry14 (1-800-Just-Don’t 2:56, Was I ever a kid? 2:40) by Terez Goulet, Calgary AB  

Entry5 (Adam: What I learned at School 7:53) by Janel Rae, Toronto ON

Entry7 (Answer me 3:25, Nellie 1:21, Hooks: 4:66) by Janel Rae, Toronto ON

Entry4 (Boring People 3:32, Cry Like A Flood 3:11) by Ben Sures, Edmonton AB

Entry18 (Tripping 7:06) by Myrtle Thomas, Montréal QC

Entry9 (Late Bloomer 3:13, Side of Small Town 2:54, Like You Mean It 3:39) by Hayley Verrall, Burlington ON

View the Longlist for the Faith Nolan Award for Music 2022

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Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2022

‘In the Ethiopian Context: Two Excerpts from a Memoir’ by Marian Dodds, Vancouver BC

‘A Letter for Lisa’ by Veronica Gorlova, Vancouver BC

‘My Mother’s Ghost’ by Claire Lawrence, Port Moody BC

‘My Rebellious Feet’ by Diary Marif, Vancouver BC

‘From an Old Hen With Plenty of Clucks Left to Give’ by Dorothy Palmer, Burlington ON

‘A Sexy Crip Manifesto’ by Seeley Quest, Halifax NS

View the Longlist for the Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2022

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Shortlist

Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022

‘Beneath the earth’ (When I say bend, hey, it’s just me) by Hari Alluri, New Westminster BC

‘Iney’ (Iney) by Imear Laffan, Nelson BC

‘Digressions from a Name’ (Digressions from a name) by Kyle Mckillop, Langley BC

‘bare and other poems’ (i tried to write a love poem) by Franz Seachel, Vancouver BC

‘My hand on the altar’ (my hand on the altar) by Cynthia Sharp, Vancouver BC

‘Poetry submissions’ (faces like ours) by Hya Sheikh, Scarborough ON

View the Longlist for Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022

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Shortlist

Norval Morrisseau Award for Visual Arts 2022

Entry10 by Omokanye Adetona, Toronto ON

Entry20 by Sena Cleave, Vancouver BC

Entry17 by Henritta Hall, Ottawa ON

Entry27 by Tamar Haytayan, Vancouver BC

Entry22 by Kenzie Housego, Calgary AB

Entry3 by Elyse Longair, Kingston ON

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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/

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