Entry Guidelines

CAA Awards for Adult Literature | CAA Emerging Writer Award | Allan Sangster Award

The guidelines have been released for the 2013 Awards for Adult Literature and Emerging Writer Award.

GUIDELINES: Awards for Adult Literature

First Published in 2012

CAA Award for Fiction: $2000
For a full-length novel
CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History: $2000
For a work of historical non-fiction on a Canadian topic
CAA Poetry Award: $2000
For a volume of poetry by one poet

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

The entry must have been first published in 2012. (Publication may have taken place outside Canada.)
Entries must be full-length English-language literature for adults written by a single author or co-written by two or more authors.
Collections of stories or articles are not eligible, whether they are by a single author or by a group of authors.
The author must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
Entrants are not eligible to win a prize for the same category two years in a row. (Previous winners may submit entries to any of the other CAA Literary Award categories.)
Reprints, translations and posthumous entries are not eligible.

ENTRY FEE: $40 per title entered.

DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked by January 15, 2013.

TO ENTER: Send four copies of the entry, plus a completed entry form (see below) and the $40 entry fee to:

Canadian Authors Literary Awards
74 Mississaga Street East
Orillia ON L3V 1V5

ENTRY FORM: please use one of the following formats:

entry form (PDF - 99k); or
fillable entry form (PDF - 127k); or
entry form (DOCX - 35k).

PROCESS

The CAA Awards Chair appoints a trustee for each award. That trustee selects two judges. The identities of the trustee and judges are confidential throughout the judging process. Decisions of the trustee and judges are final, and they may choose not to award a prize.

A shortlist of the best three entries in each category will be announced in June 2013, and the winners will be announced in July 2013 at a special awards dinner.

Please note: Ineligible entries and their accompanying fees will not be returned.

Questions? Call 1 866 216 6222 or 705 653 0323, or email to .

Download a printable copy of these guidelines (PDF - 108k) revised November 16, 2012.

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The CAA Emerging Writer Award

The CAA Emerging Writer Award goes to the Canadian writer deemed to show the most promise in the field of literary creation. There are no restrictions as to the genre, and a writer may be selected based on a body of work in a variety of forms, or on a body of work in a single genre or writing form.

PRIZE: $500 and a one-year membership in the Canadian Authors Association (CAA).

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

The nominee must be under 30 years of age (as of May 30 in the year of the competition) and a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.
Self-nominations are not accepted. Nominations may be made solely through CAA branches, other writing and arts organizations, publishers, agents, and creative writing coaches, teachers or professors at public or private schools and universities.
Book-length publication is not required.
Nominees are not eligible to win this prize two years in a row. However, previous winners may submit entries to any of the other CAA Literary Award categories, and there is no limit on the number of times a writer may be nominated for this award before the age limit is reached.

ENTRY FEE: There is no entry fee for this award.

DEADLINE: Nomination packages must be postmarked by April 30, 2013.

TO NOMINATE A WRITER:

Complete the Emerging Writer Award nomination form (see below).
Prepare a nomination package that includes 3 copies of the following:
- a cover letter outlining why your nominee is deserving of this award
- your nominee’s bio (up to 200 words)
- samples of the writer’s written work

Send the completed nomination form and three copies of the nomination package to:

CAA Awards
74 Mississaga Street East
Orillia ON L3V 1V5

Decisions of the judges are final, and they may choose not to award a prize in any awards year.

ENTRY FORM:

fillable entry form (PDF - 105k).

PROCESS

The winner will be announced at the CAA Literary Awards Gala & Banquet, June 15, 2013, during the Canadian Authors' CanWrite! 2013 writers conference and retreat in Orillia, Ontario.

Questions? Call 1 866 216 6222 or 705 653 0323, or email to .

Download a printable copy of these guidelines (PDF - 103k).

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The Allan Sangster Award

The Allan Sangster Award honours one of the CAA's own members for extraordinary service to the Association.

This award winner is chosen by the previous winners.

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Updated April 11, 2013