This Magazine is proud to announce its ninth annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt. We’re on the trail of Canada’s brightest new creative writers and would like to welcome you to participate in this year's contest. You can win cash prizes, plus get your work read by 10,000 This Magazine readers across the country-including hundreds of top publishers, writers and editors.

Past winners of the Great Canadian Literary Hunt have gone on to win honours at the National Magazine Awards, the Journey Prize, they’ve been published by the top houses in the country and are among the hottest writers in fiction and poetry today. You could be next! Just send in your entries by July 1, 2005, and join This Magazine’s 40-year tradition of heralding the brightest talents in Canadian letters.

If you have any questions about the Great Canadian Literary Hunt, please email contests@thismagazine.ca or check out our website at www.thismagazine.ca.

Rules
1. Original, unpublished poems of up to 100 lines and short stories of up to 5,000 words by Canadian citizens or residents are eligible.

2. First place in each category is $750 plus publication in a special literary supplement to the Nov/Dec 2005 issue. Second and third prize in each category is a lovely This Magazine prize pack, plus publication in the literary supplement.

3. Entry fees: $20 for one short story or two poems. Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to This Magazine*. Each additional entry is $5. Entry fees must be paid by personal cheque or money order payable to This Magazine.

4. Entrant’s name MUST NOT appear on the manuscript itself. All entries must be accompanied by a separate cover sheet with entrant’s full name, address, postal code, telephone number, email address, submission title(s) and category.

5. To receive a list of winners, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be contacted by telephone.

6. Entrants agree to be bound by the contest rules. Judges’ decisions are final.

7. Entries must be postmarked no later than July 1, 2005, and mailed to:
THE GREAT CANADIAN LITERARY HUNT c/o This Magazine,
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 396, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8

*This Magazine subscribers will have an additional year added to their subscription term.