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Before you submit your work, please note:
- Each issue of TCR includes art, poetry, fiction, essays and interviews commissioned by the editors, as well as a small selection of unsolicited poetry and prose from our annual writing contests and open reading periods.
- We publish 500-word reviews of books, exhibitions, and events in our online review section, See to see—, and welcome your pitches on an ongoing basis. Please email contact@thecapilanoreview.com with your brief pitch and 100-word bio, making sure to tell us why your piece will be a good fit for TCR.
- We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you inform us if your work is placed elsewhere.
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The Capilano Review is pleased to invite submissions to its Fall 2024 Writing Contest, “Dedications,” guest-judged by Shiv Kotecha.
A poet once told another poet, trust your reader, trust that they’re there. Poems do this—they flirt, provoke, and reenact the stuff of relation, soliciting the attention of their readers to the actuality of our shared world. This is a call for works that aim to close the gap between writer and reader and for poems that seek to embrace, envision, or exceed the realm of the autonomous. How might a poem reflect the cohesions or contradictions that sustain a friendship or a social world, or the outlets and limit-points of commitment, whether that be one of love or hate? How does poetic practice cite, simulate, or parrot the strange shape taken by intimacy, with its penchant to fixate or obsess, the space it makes to allow for ambivalence, the time it takes to foment or unfold completely? Works engaging the essay, fiction, poetry, and other language-based interdisciplinary methods are encouraged.
The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in an upcoming print issue of The Capilano Review. The winner will be announced in January 2025.
About the Judge
Shiv Kotecha is a writer and editor living in New York. He is the author of The Switch (Wonder, 2018), and EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015). His criticism appears in publications including 4Columns, Aperture, BOMB, frieze, The Nation, MUBI’s Notebook, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. For the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, he co-edits Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of experimental arts writing. He teaches poetry at NYU and is Co-Chair of the Writing Discipline for Bard MFA—Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Submission Guidelines
- Submission period: November 1–30, 2024
- Work must be original and previously unpublished
- Submit up to 6 pages of poetry, prose, or other short experimental forms (PDF or Word formats only)
- All entries will be considered anonymously. Please do not include your name or other identifying fields on your manuscript pages
- Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere so that we can remove your entry from the contest
Submission Fees*
$25 for Canadian entries**
$35 for US/International entries
*Submission fee includes a complimentary one-year subscription to The Capilano Review.
**Note: Submission fee is waived for Indigenous entrants. Please email contact@thecapilanoreview.com directly for alternate instructions to submit your work.