how to write a book review

One of the nicest things a reader can do for an author is to review the author's book. But how do you go about writing a review? I Just discovered the following helpful, comprehensive advice from Victor Wiebe of the Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan. https://web.archive.org/web/20230330031443/https://mhss.sk.ca/books/How-to-Review-a-Book.shtml

Contest for unpublished Canadian writers: May 19 deadline

PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. DEADLINE MAY 19.

The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished writers are encouraged to submit short stories, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry. The shortlisted submissions will be judged by a distinguished jury of Canadian writers.

The winning entry will receive a $3,000 CAD cash prize and mentorship from a Canadian author.

Submissions guidelines here: https://pencanada.ca/news/now-accepting-submissions-for-the-rbc-pen-canada-2024-new-voices-award/

Canadian hero opportunity

Deadline April 21, 2024. Latitude 46 of Sudbury, Ontario, is open to submissions of fictional or true or partly true "stories from across Canada that push the usual superhero tropes while shining a spotlight on unique corners of Canada. We want stories set in and around the nation's more often overlooked locales—isolated small towns, remote reservations, bedroom communities, and other underrepresented areas of Canada. Give us rural superheroes, backwater supervillains, and tales of characters/communities at a crossroads." More info at https://latitude46publishing.com/super-canucks-call-for-submissions/

Interior Authors Group Christmas Social Dec 13, 2023 at The Dunes Restaurant, Kamloops, BC

Canadian market for short fiction, poetry, flash fiction

Funicular is an Edmonton-based magazine that publishes short stories, poetry, & flash fiction. Submissions guidelines here. https://funicularmagazine.submittable.com/submit

rejected?

Did an editor or editors reject your writing? Good article here on what you could consider doing next. https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/55-FE5-RevisionReworkRewrite.html

advice for older writers

Good advice here. https://tinyurl.com/4adpkrcs