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carte blanche and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society are pleased to announce the long list for our 2016-17 creative nonfiction competition: “To the Lighthouse” by Kelley Jo Burke (Regina, SK) “Doing Better” by Ann Cavlovic (Gatineau, QC) “Life and Good Fortune” by Patti Edgar (Calgary, AB) “Darkroom, Daydream” by Matthew Hollett (St. John’s, NL) “The Unicycle in My Garage” by Barb Howard (Calgary, AB) “Heavy Wait for Silence” by Lee Kvern (Okotoks, AB) “A Chaotic Jumble of Infinite Possibility” by…

The CNFC and carte blanche are pleased to announce its 2015–2016 creative nonfiction contest shortlist. The winner will be announced on April 23 in Banff, Alberta at the 12th annual CNFC conference. The shortlist was selected by contest judge, Deni Béchard. “Spectrum,” by Nicole Breit Nicole Breit is a poet and essayist who lives and writes in the suburbs of Vancouver. She was nominated for the Malahat Review 2016 Open Season awards, the 2015 Room poetry prize and the 2015 PRISM International CNF contest. Her debut…

carte blanche and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society are pleased to announce the long list for our 2015-16 creative nonfiction competition: “My Father, the Bird” by Kate Braid “Spectrum” by Nicole Breit “The Birth of Lizard Boy” by William J Crow “Answer: Mostly Ds – A Cautionary Quiz” by Phil M Dwyer “Through the Damascus Gate” by Jane Finlay-Young “Members Only” by Janet L Fretter “Kimchi” by Megan A Kaczor “Cannot predict now” by Lezlie M Lowe “Hedy and Flo”…

carte blanche and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society are pleased to announce the judge for our third annual creative nonfiction contest: Deni Ellis Béchard is a journalist, novelist, memoirist, photographer, and activist. He has published three books, the first of which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was translated into French, Arabic, and Russian. Deni will also be delivering the keynote at this year’s CNFC conference in Banff, where he’ll address the importance of the narrative arts in a time of social…