FRIDAY NOTES & NEWS: Halloween Week Contest Submissions deadline this Monday

Submissions run until end of day EDT Monday, Oct. 13!

Enter to win cash prizes in our annual Halloween Week Scary Story contest (max. word count of 2,500). Five winners win cash prizes:

First place wins CAD$100.
Second place win CAD$50
And three runners-up win CAD$25 each.

All five winning stories will be posted on CommuterLit during this year’s Halloween Week, Oct. 27-Oct. 31, 2025.

Submit here.



Holiday Schedule
We’ll be taking the Canadian Thanksgiving Holiday, Monday, Oct. 13 off. The first post of the week and the newsletter will go out on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
 



Changing Newsletter Platform
Over the course of October will be transitioning away from Mail Chimp as our newsletter carrier/platform to Substack. If you are a subscriber to our newsletter, don’t worry, you’ll still be a subscriber  when we make the transition. You don’t have to do anything.