First Prize:
Visions Etched in Ice by Diane De Pisa

Highly Commended:

The House Next Door by Cindy Matthews

Dowse by Amanda Yskamp

Tomatoes by Nikki Loftin

Save a Child by Dana Kroos

Misery Always Wins by Matthew MacKay

Thank you to all the participants. Prizes will be awarded within the month of July and the stories published in the fall of 2019.

SURRENDER TO THE MYSTERY

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Aug 10th: Opening Reception: 7pm @ Island Chocolates

Aug11th: ‘What’s Your Story’: Life writing workshop with Trevor Corkum: 2 -4 @ The Old School

Aug 11th: Evening Review (words, music and dance): 7 pm – 9pm @ Island Chocolates

Aug 12th: Yoga with Joshua Lewis: 1pm -2pm @ The Old School

Aug 12th: ‘Poetry of Breath’ with Trevor and Josh: Exploring the connection between self-expression, language and body awareness: 2 -4 @ The Old School

Trevor Corkum

Trevor Corkum’s novel The Electric Boy is set to debut with Doubleday Canada. An award-winning writer, educator, scholar, and editor, he has facilitated workshops and lectured across Canada and around the world. His fiction, essays, journalism and reviews appear regularly in periodicals such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail and his work has been recognized with nominations for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Western Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, the CBC Short Story Prize, and the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. Trevor was the 2017 Writer-in-Residence at Lester B. Pearson United World College and a 2017 Writer-in-Residence on the Canada C3 expedition. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and an MA in Adult Education and Community Development from the University of Toronto. A current PhD student in Adult
Education at the University of Toronto, his research uses narrative and storytelling to explore notions of home, belonging, and identity in a globalized world. He divides his time between Toronto and the south shore of Prince Edward Island.

https://www.trevorcorkum.com/

Criteria: 1500 words, taking into consideration the theme of the 2018 VLF festival: Surrender to the Mystery.

All entries must be sent in print form to: Victoria Literary Festival, PO BOX 82, Victoria, PE, C0A2G0 and a digital copy to: [email protected].

UPDATED Deadline is October, 1st, 2018.

One of the finalists will be selected from Island writers.

First prize will receive 350 CDN$ with four runners up receiving 50 CDN$ each. The contest will be open from July 10th with final submissions submitted by the 25th of August