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Contests, Prompts, Events & Retreats

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Enter the Place and Home Writing Contest

Submit your stories of migration and/or your sense of place, of home or lack of, and your empathy to the plight of migrants around the world.

Results of the 2023 Dreamers Flash Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest. There were so many incredible stories this year!

2023 Place and Home Contest Results

Congratulations to the winners of the Dreamers 2023 Place and Home Contest, based on the theme of migration, place & home.

On Demand Writing to Heal Workshop

In this healing writing workshop, you will be guided through a series of lessons and prompts designed to explore themes from your lived experience.

Writing to Heal Workshop On Demand

Dreamers Writing is hosting a Writing to Heal online workshop series. Each workshop has a unique theme & they don’t need to be done in order.

Challenge yourself! Here are five literary magazines in Canada that accept flash fiction. Two of them run annual flash fiction/postcard story contests!

Results of the 2022 Dreamers Flash Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest. There were so many incredible stories this year!

2022 Place and Home Contest Results

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Creative Writing Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home Contest.