Contests are a terrific way to share your words and promote your writing. Join us for a lively discussion with past CNFC nonfiction contest winners who will share their craft tips and contest submission approaches

BECKY BLAKE is a two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction in 2017 and short fiction in 2013). More recently, she was the 2021 winner of the CNFC/Humber Literary Review creative nonfiction contest. Her first novel, Proof I Was Here, was published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2019. Becky teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, and she holds an MFA from the University of Guelph. She is currently working on a second novel and a memoir-in-essays.

 MARGARET NOWACZYK is a pediatrician and a clinical geneticist. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Prairie Fire, Geist, Examined Life Journal, Broken Pencil, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Grain, Litro US, and The Dalhousie Review, and her non-fiction has won the 2018 and 2020 Hamilton Short Works Prizes and the 2020 CNFC/Humber Literary Review contests. “Chasing Zebras,” her memoir about clinical genetics, mental health, and writing was published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2021. She lives in Hamilton, ON with her husband, two sons, two cats, and a rescue greyhound.