Victoria Literary Festival https://victorialiteraryfestival.com Victoria-by-the-sea Wed, 27 May 2020 22:44:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/victorialiteraryfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-Victoria-Lit-2015-3-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Victoria Literary Festival https://victorialiteraryfestival.com 32 32 173304783 Announcing the winners of the Victoria Literary Festival’s 2018 Short Story Contest! https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-victoria-literary-festivals-2018-short-story-contest/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:53:50 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=383

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.

]]> 383 Hats Off Short Story Contest https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/short-story-contest-2019/ Sun, 28 Jul 2019 18:53:38 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=293

Criteria: A short piece of fiction with a minimum of 1400 words, taking into consideration the theme: Hats Off

The Hats Off short story contest has been extended to help keep everyone busy during home isolation.

All entries must be sent in print form to Victoria Literary Festival, PO BOX 82, Victoria, PE, C0A2G0 as well as a digital copy (PDF or word document) to:

The extended deadline is September 30th, 2020 and stories must be received by this date. Anyone who has previously entered is welcome to send another story.

[email protected].

The short story must not have previously been published or won a prize.

One of the finalists will be selected from Island writers.

The winners will be published in the  Victoria Review in the summer of 2020 

First prize will receive 350 CDN$ with four runners up receiving 50 CDN$ each.

]]> 293 VICTORIA LITERARY FESTIVAL 2018 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/victoria-literary-festival-2018-schedule-of-events/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:43:42 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=198 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/

]]> 198 Announcing the Victoria Literary Festival’s 2018 Short Story Contest https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/announcing-the-victoria-literary-festivals-2018-short-story-contest/ Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:42:18 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=194

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

]]> 194 Journal Pioneer Interviews Literary Agents Sandra Pareja and Emma Price https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/journal-pioneer-interviews-literary-agents-sandra-pareja-and-emma-price/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:48:31 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=183 Our international literary agents Sandra Pareja and Emma Price were interviewed in the Journal Pioneer about their workshop Pen to Paper: How to Have Your Book Published. Read the full interview here.

]]> 183 Victoria Literary Festival Short Story Contest Announced on CBC https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/victoria-literary-festival-short-story-contest-announced-on-cbc/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:31:26 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=180 Read the full article here.

]]> 180 WRITER IN RESIDENCE https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/news/ https://victorialiteraryfestival.com/news/#comments Tue, 16 May 2017 12:30:56 +0000 http://www.victorialiteraryfestival.com/?p=1

We are proud to announce Mary Norris A.K.A The Comma Queen as Victoria-by-the-sea´s first Writer in Residence!

Watch her TED talk on her experience as a copyeditor at the New Yorker:

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