RISING SPIRITS
​WRITING CONTEST 2019/20

Our exciting Writing Contest is back with some changes! It's time to get writing your best stories and polish them for submission.  You can download
2019/20 Contest Rules and Entry Form by clicking the red lettering (LINKS).

The Contest will be open to all permanent Ontario residents, and we hope to have a broad range of submissions for the following: 

Short Story - less than 2500 words 
Non-Fiction - less than 2500 words 
Poetry - less than 2500 words 
Youth (14 - 18) - less than 2500 words 

All work submitted should be original, unpublished material.  Submissions must be received by Oct. 31st 2019,  and our Celebration will be held on February 23rd, 2020. 

Entry Fee:  
                  Non Members - $15.00
                  NOTL Writers Circle - $10.00
                  Youth - Free 

Prizes: Awards, Publication in our Anthology, community gifts and cash. 

Please click Contest Rules and Entry Form











































RISING SPIRITS CONTEST 2017

The NOTL Writing Circle held its annual Rising Spirits Writing competition Celebration and Awards Ceremony on October 29th at the Old Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  

AWARD WINNERS
NON FICTION 

John Sayers representing The Historical Society and Museum presented:

1st Place- Sharon Frayne – “Just a Cuppa Coffee”

2nd Place – Christopher Gosling – “The Escalator”

3rd Place –Bill Hamilton- “What If”

POETRY

Terry Belleville presented on behalf of The Shaw Festival:

1st Place- Sharon Frayne – “The Shadow  River - Muskoka"   

 2nd Place – Sally Basmaian – “Made in Canadian Heaven"

  3rd Place- Mike Keenan – “Canoe Lake”

FICTION

Janine Summers presented:

 1st Place – Catherine Skinner– “The Bone Garden

  2nd Place - Valmai Howe Elkins – “The Maple Club
          
 3rd Place – Sharon Frayne -  “Her Last Poem” 

Youth Category

Hermine Steinberg presented on behalf of the NOTL Writer's Circle :

  1st Place – Baylee Jensen- “Me, Myself, and Canada"

  2nd Place – Athena Liu - “Proud to be Canadian, eh?"
         
  3rd Place – Julia Spears- “Home”

MUSIC
The Willful Blues

M.C.
Holmes Hooke

Guest Speaker
Barbara Bach