High School Creative Writing Competition – Fall 2025
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 from 12:00 am to 12:00 am
- Tbd event
- Contact
- nadia.bozak@carleton.ca
Carleton University Creative Writing Program & Sumac Literary Magazine present:
High School Creative Writing Competition
Calling all high school storytellers! We can’t wait to discover your story. Send us your most imaginative, surprising, or heart-stopping tale by December 31, 2025.
Stories submitted to the competition should be unpublished works of fiction written by a student currently enrolled at an Ottawa-area high school.
No theme. Total creative freedom.
Submission Details:
- Length: up to 1,500 words (postcard stories, flash fiction, micro fiction)
- Students may submit one story
- Format: Word or PDF
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Email submissions to english@carleton.ca
Prizes:
- One winning story published in the Spring 2026 edition of Carleton’s Sumac Literary Magazine
- Two honourable mentions
- Passes to VERSeFest for the winning writer and the two honourable mentions
For questions, reach out to the Carleton University Creative Writing Program at nadia.bozak@carleton.ca