Call for Submission - RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Calls For Submission

RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Call to Painters, Deadline May 9

2012 RBC CANADIAN PAINTING COMPETITION OPENS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced its call for entries for the 2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. With a total of $55,000 in prize money, it is one of the largest competitions of its kind in Canada.

Entries must be submitted by May 9, 2012 and winners will be announced in Toronto on November 29, 2012, with the national winner receiving $25,000 and two honourable mentions each receiving $15,000.

“RBC works closely with the Canadian Art Foundation to recognize and showcase emerging painters and provide them with opportunities to gain national exposure,” said Ann Webb, executive director, Canadian Art Foundation and publisher, Canadian Art Magazine. “Each year, we look forward to this competition so we can support, celebrate and uncover new Canadian talent.”

Details and rules of the competition may be found at rbc.com/paintingcompetition. The submitted works will be short-listed to 15 finalists by independent panels of regional judges. All regional jurors come together in November to determine one national winner and two honourable mentions to be announced on November 29. All 15 paintings will be on exhibit at the Power Plant in Toronto. All finalists will be featured at rbc.com/paintingcompetition.

About the RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition recognizes and supports Canada’s emerging artists. The competition nurtures Canadian visual artists early in their career by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunity. The competition will award one national prize of $25,000 and two honourable mentions will receive prizes of $15,000 each. Along with past winners, the winning paintings of 2012 will become part of RBC’s Canadian art collection comprised of more than 4,000 works of distinguished art collected over the past hundred years.


For more information, contact:
Sandy Kwong, RBC Public Affairs, 204-988-3511, sandy.kwong@rbc.com
Liz Redston, RBC Public Affairs, 204-988-3516, liz.redston@rbc.com

Artist contact:
Deborah Dexter, Advisor, RBC Canadian Painting Competition, 416-277-4068

Call for Submission by Writers

Calls For Submission

Rhubarb Magazine: Call to Writers, Deadline May 1

RHUBARB “MONEY”LITERARY CONTEST – Deadline MAY 1, 2012

Rhubarb announces its first literary contest with a total of $1,500 in prize money. Fittingly enough it is for a future Rhubarb issue with Mennonites and money as its theme, in the three usual categories published in the magazine. Like the loosely defined Mennonite voices we publish, any creative variations on the theme are welcome. The contest is open to anyone with preference to those submissions with Mennonite references, which will however, not be the final criteria.
The prizes are $300 and $200 each in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, and publication in the magazine. All honourable mentions will also be published and receive the standard $50 payment for publication. All entrants will receive a subscription to Rhubarb magazine beginning with the money issue.
The judges are: Armin Wiebe – Fiction, Aiden Enns –  Non-Fiction, Maurice Mierau – Poetry.
The entry fee is $30.00. Three poems of up to 30 lines can be submitted as one poetry entry, fiction and non-fiction are limited to one submission with a maximum of 2,500 words.

Entry Details
Please provide all contact information including your name address and email on a cover sheet, without your name appearing on the entry itself. Submissions will be accepted by email and surface mail. Email entries won’t be logged until a cheque for $30 arrives in the mail. Please address surface mail entries and cheques payable to “The Mennonite Literary Society” to:
 The Mennonite Literary Society
Money Contest,
 606-100 Arthur Street,
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1H3.