VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award Open!

Happy Spring!

We’re revving up for the first submission period April 8-April 12, 2024 for the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award!

The award is for a book published in Canada that is a hybrid genre, or straddles two or more genres. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in October 2024 at the Vancouver Writers Fest and receive $500. Our judge this year is Stephen Collis.

Stephen Collis is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)—all published by Talonbooks. A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and in 2019, Collis was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. The Middle, the second volume of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, will be published in 2024. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.

Full details here: https://www.vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com/warland-award/

Reminder: If you are looking to spring ahead in a small project, or an aspect of a longer text, we have SOLOS available to start at any time. Contact us to connect about working with one of our mentors in a 4.5 or 15 hours package.

And if you are tackling a larger project, VMI Pro, our intensive program of feedback for published authors, is also open. Check our website to see if you are eligible.

Wishing you good writing and reading,

Elee and Rachel

Directors, VMI