The Toronto Star Short Story Contest  ...is open again!

From yesterday's online edition of the paper...

• This year’s contest runs until 5 p.m. on Feb. 28.
• The winner will receive $5,000 and a creative writing course from The Humber School for Writers.
• The second-place winner will take home a $2,000 prize, while third place will be awarded $1,000.
• The winner can choose a 30-week creative writing correspondence program, valued at $3,000, at Humber, or a week-long summer workshop, worth $1,000, at the college’s Lakeshore campus in Toronto.
• Stories can be about any topic the entrant chooses, as long as it’s original, unpublished, and amounts to less than 2,500 words. Entries are limited to one per person.
• Submissions will be judged by a panel of the Humber School for Writers and narrowed down to a short list. The three winners will then be selected from that list by city librarian Vickery Bowles, award-winning author and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee, Toronto Star books editor Deborah Dundas, and the Star’s former theatre critic Richard Ouzounian.

FULL DETAILS available here. 

• You must be 16 years old to enter.
• If you're not 16 this year, plan ahead for next year or the year after.