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CBC Poetry Prize
The 2024 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions between April 1 and June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.CBC Short Story Prize
The CBC Short Story Prize is open between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1. at 4:59 p.m. ET.- The First Page
Bestselling YA author S.K. Ali to judge the 2025 First Page student writing challenge
Students from Grades 7-12 can write the first page of a speculative novel set 150 years in the future. The competition will be open from Feb. 1- 28! Rachel Robb explores what reconciliation means to a non-Indigenous person and wins 2024 CBC Poetry Prize
Zoe Whittall, Danny Ramadan and Helen Knott to judge 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize