Last night at our weekly Sunday dinner, Simon (who is in my writers' group) mentioned the Fish competition. I looked it up and the details are below. Meanwhile, I've ordered a copy of 'The Canadian Writers' Contest Calendar 2011'. I will keep posting the competitions, but it's a great tool...Finally, I finished 'The Sentimentalists', the Giller Winner that seems to be racking up controversy! I threw in my two cents at the bottom. Happy scribing, TartanFrog! The Fish Competition! Deadline: November 30, 2010 Entry Fee: $26 Web site: www.fishpublishing.com E-mail address: [email protected] A prize of 3,000 euros (approximately $3,850) and publication in the annual Fish Publishing anthology is given annually for a short story. Using the online submission system, submit a story of up to 5,000 words with an entry fee of 20 euros (approximately $26) by November 30. Visit the Web site for complete guidelines. ABOUT 'THE SENTIMENTALISTS': Yes, I finished it last night. I picked out two reviewers that I think nailed my own impressions. Ian McGillis, National Post, writes: "Fans of conventional pacing will be tested especially by The Sentimentalists’ first half, which often finds the narrator musing things like “It is only from a distance that abstractions are, after all, desirable, or even possible” and how “there comes that one instant, that impetus, whatever it will be, by which we are one day blown, finally, from our own furthest extremity.” Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/11/13/book-review-the-sentimentalists-by-johanna-skibsrud/#ixzz161ZZjqqy And, Zoe Whittall, Globe and Mail, writes: "Like a lot of debut novels, The Sentimentalists can sometimes feel like a stumbling colt, with moments of astounding raw beauty and original wordplay."
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