Monthly Archive for May, 2009

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ENFIELD & WIZENTY ANNOUNCES FICTION CONTEST

July 2009

This year Enfield & Wizenty (an imprint of Great Plains Publications) launches a fiction contest to celebrate our own survival, as we go into our third season as a national fiction imprint of Great Plains Publications. For this champagne-soaked third year, Enfield & Wizenty is offering a $5,000 advance for the most outstanding submission of literary fiction that we receive. We will be reading fiction submissions (novels and collections of short stories) from now until December 2009. Short story collections should have appeared extensively in Canadian literary magazines.

For information on our first two seasons click on the Enfield & Wizenty tab above; please note that we’re not interested in genre novels–crime, science fiction, romance etc. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but do let us know.

DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2009.

Please submit sample and query letter to:
Enfield & Wizenty
Maurice Mierau, Associate Editor
345-955 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3G 0P9
OR by email to info@greatplains.mb.ca

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Middlegate Series off to China

July 2009

A major new acquisition happened recently for Great Plains Publications in Winnipeg, the People’s Literature Publishing House in Beijing has purchased the Chinese rights to all three of Rae Bridgman’s juvenile MiddleGate books: The Serpent’s Spell, Amber Ambrosia, and Fish & Sphinx. The deal was arranged through Creative Work Ltd. The books will be translated and published for the Chinese market in 2011.

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No Dilly Dallying

July 26, 2009

We didn’t mention our Dragon Boat participation in 2008, because, well, we really did very badly. Very badly. But for 2009, the Relish Design Studio dragon boat team “In a Pickle” made a comeback - placing 15th overall out of 52 teams participating in this weekends River City Dragon Boat Festival. The purpose of the festival is to promote the sport of paddling and support a worth while charitable cause. In 2009, pledge proceeds will be dedicated to the Environmental Education, Outdoor Recreation and Social Enterprise programs at FortWhyte Alive.