![]() ![]() We will consider them but they present technical difficulties with web software that may not be easily resolved.) Please copy and paste your submission into the body of the email, even if you include an attachment such as Word or PDF.ģ. (Please note, experimental formats are difficult to publish online. Send only your best works or final draft, not everything you wrote down. Write as many poems and stories as you like. It can be a poem or short prose (fiction or nonfiction.) You can research the artwork or artist and use your discoveries to fuel your writing, or you can let the image alone provoke your imagination.Ģ. Use this visual art prompt as a springboard for your writing. You can submit poetry, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, microfiction, or any other form creative writing you like. The prompt this time is an installation from The Grasshopper and the Ant, and Other Stories, by Jennifer Angus. ![]() See why so many writers are hooked on ekphrasis! We feature some of the most accomplished, influential writers working today, and we also welcome emerging or first time writers and those who simply want to experience art in a deeper way or try something creative. Join us for biweekly ekphrastic writing challenges. Thank you Lorette for the opportunity to be a challenge-editor for the TER, I feel very honoured, again. Thank you all for sending in your ekphrastic pieces! Check Jennifer’s webpage to read more about her ethics re working with insects, and if you are as taken with her art as I am, do have a look at the earlier work (for example the Fragile Earth-exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum a.o.) : ). Note that the insects she is working with, are real and showing their natural colour, although they are dead and dried. Jennifer Angus creates diverse and innovative artwork and the piece you will write to, is one from her exhibition named The Grasshopper and the Ant…and Other Stories. Here is your new Ekphrastic challenge…and I do expect (and hope and dream!) it to be an exciting and original one for you! Thank you so much to Kate for sharing her time and talent with us, and for choosing this intriguing art to inspire us! W, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3G5Ĭbc.radio-canada.ca | radio-canada.ca | cbc.The Ekphrastic Review is thrilled to have longtime TER contributor Kate Copeland join us again as a guest judge and curator for the current challenge. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.Ģ50 Front St. Two winning entries - one from the Grades 7 to 9 category and one from the Grades 10 to 12 category - will be chosen by bestselling author Courtney Summers. In addition, each winners' school libraries will receive 50 free books. There Will Never Be Another You by Antonia Starcevic, 16, Edmontonīoth winners will receive a one-year subscription to OwlCrate, which sends fresh boxes of books to young readers across Canada on a monthly basis.by Thomas Nixon-Langford, 18, from Nanaimo, B.C. The Death of Planet Earth by Zev Lifson, 16, from Montreal.Where the Abandoned Things Go by Ashley Levine, 15, from Whitby, Ont.Choices by Jasmin Hasselkuss 16, from Lakefield, Ont.A Bird's-Eye View by Akieziah Emerie Garcia, 16, from Winnipeg.His and Hers by Audrey Gao, 16, from Vancouver.The B-Shop by Alina Gao, 15, from Coquitlam, B.C.The Watcher by Talissa Gagnon, 16, from Sorel-Tracy, Que.Is This Life? by Ruby Craig, 16, from Surrey, B.C.Where the Maple Leaf Grows by Christian A.Ugly Perfection by Jessie Yang, 14, from Coquitlam, B.C.The Hidden Painting by Jessica Yang, 14, from Richmond Hill, Ont.Not Theirs by Molly Teed, 13, from Moncton, N.B.Wishful Breeze by Isabel Porter, 12, from Toronto.My Choice by Amelia Man, 14, from Vancouver.Bailey by Leilei Lee Culham, 14, from Vancouver.Jane Doe by Mackenzie Greene, 13, from Toronto.A Whole New Worldby Alvin Chen, 15, from Coquitlam, B.C. ![]() War by Fiona Bagnall, 13, from Calgary.You can read the shortlisted entries below. Over 1,200 stories were submitted for the 2023 competition. The shortlist was chosen by a team of readers made up of YA and middle-grade authors from across Canada. Students imagined how current affairs events and trends - from the ethics of advanced technology to climate change and human rights - has played out in the year 2173. Twenty-two young writers from across Canada have been chosen as finalists for The First Page Student Writing Challenge, which asked Grades 7 to 12 students to write the first page of a novel set 150 years in the future.
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