This year Enfield & Wizenty launches a fiction contest to celebrate our own survival, as we go into our third season as a national fiction imprint of Great Plains Publications. For this champagne-soaked third year, Enfield & Wizenty is offering a $5,000 advance for the most outstanding submission of literary fiction that we receive. We will be reading fiction submissions (novels and collections of short stories) from now until December 2009. Short story collections should have appeared extensively in Canadian literary magazines.

For information on our first two seasons click on the Enfield & Wizenty tab above; please note that we’re not interested in genre novels–crime, science fiction, romance etc. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but do let us know.

DEADLINE: Dec. 18, 2009.

Please submit sample and query letter to:
Enfield & Wizenty
Maurice Mierau, Associate Editor
345-955 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3G 0P9
OR by email to info@greatplains.mb.ca

Congratulations to Nicole Luiken whose young adult novel Frost has been shortlisted for the 2009/2010 British Columbia Young Readers’ Choice Award (Stellar category). Frost is already a 2008 Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Book selection, a winner of the Golden Eagle Award, and a 2009 OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Honour Book.