FRIDAY NOTES & NEWS: Call for Submissions — Valentine Week 2025 Love Story Contest

Submissions are now open to enter our Valentines Week 2025 contest. The top five love stories will be posted on CommuterLit the week of Feb. 10-14 and receive cash prizes:

First-place: CA$100
Second-place: CA$50
(3) Honourable Mentions: CA$25

Entry fee: CA$4, which goes towards keeping the contests afloat.

We are looking for love (not necessarily romantic love) stories with a maximum word count of 2,500. Reprints, and simultaneous submissions allowed. You can also enter more than once—but please one story per entry.

Submissions close: end of day EST Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.

SUBMIT NOW

 



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NEW IN THE BOOK STORE
Blood Will Out and Other Strange Tales by David Rudd. Check it out.
 



Contributor News
Purabi Das’s
 short story, “Alone No More” has earned honourable mention in a recent contest run by Pickering (Ontario) Library. 
 
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