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This annual prize is in memory of Winston Collins, writer and
enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati,
Princeton and Toronto. The prize will perpetuate his remarkable
talent for encouraging self-expression through writing.
:: About ::
• One (1) Winner will
receive CAN $1000, plus payment for publication* in Descant;
• Two (2) Honourary Mentions will
receive CAN $250 each, plus payment for publication* in Descant
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Guidelines ::
• Interested
in entering next year? Go
here for all the details!
Deadline
for entries: Postmarked by Oct
09, 2009 (closed)
Prize Announcement:
Winner & Honourary Mentions will be announced
Feb 19, 2010
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2010 Competition Announcement soon!
Who will win this
year's Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian
Poem?
This
year's finalists will be announced on Feb 19 at a gala event
sponsored by PAGEWAVE GRAPHICS, Toronto; please join us at this free, celebratory event!
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three finalists will have their winning poems highlighted
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:: 2009 Press
Release + Shortlist: here
Last
year's Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian
Poem went to Hamilton's Marilyn Gear Pilling for her work "Billy Collins Interviewed On Stage at
Chautauqua", with Honourary Mentions going to Fredericton's M. Travis Lane for
"In a Glass Darkly" and Guelph's Shane
Neilson for "Naming Uncle Bridges' Farm".
The 2009 finalists were announced on Feb 20 at a gala event
sponsored by PAGEWAVE GRAPHICS, Toronto; thank-you to everyone
who came out to help make this an extremely successful event!
The
three finalists will have their winning poems highlighted
in a special section in the Fall 2009 issue of Descant. |
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2008 Press
Release + Shortlist: here
2008's Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem
went to Elgin, NB's Elizabeth Venart for
her work "On the Day I Cut Cabbage", with Honourary
Mentions
going to Montreal's Cora Siré for
"Before Leaving Hué" and Montreal's Celia
Ste Croix for "The Poem on Your Body".
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three finalists had their winning poems highlighted in a
special section in the Summer 2008 issue of Descant. |
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2007 Press
Release:
here
The
inaugural Winston Collins/ Descant Prize for Best Canadian
Poem went to Brantford's John B. Lee for his work "The Green Muse", with Honourary
Mentions
going to Victoria, BC's Yvonne Blomer for
"The Roll Call to the Ark" and Toronto's Jim
Nason for "Chardin’s Rabbit".
.The
three finalists had their winning poems highlighted in a
special section in the Summer 2007 issue of Descant. |
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Winston Collins/ Descant Prize
