Ontario essay competition

Our quarterly flash fiction competition is open for entries all year round. The competition is open to any theme or genre, and your story must be a maximum of 500 words (not including the title). You can enter up to two stories in each quarterly competition. Our quarterly short story competition is open for entries all year round.

Writing contests are a great way for high school students to showcase their creative skills. Some schools might not have many extracurricular activities for aspiring writers. Instead, students might want to turn to outside sources to get recognition for their writing success. A writing competition is a great way to do so.

Showcase your ideas on public policy and the role of markets by entering our essay competition. $9,000 in cash prizes will be awarded with $3,000 of this designated just for high school students! Winning essays may be published in Fraser Institute journals and authors will have the opportunity to experience the peer review process.

First-time novelists only. You can have previously published poems or short stories, but this must be your first published novel. Novels distributed via self-publishing aren’t eligible. Novelists who have published a book in the year previous to the contest date, and feel that they have achieved something “notable and enduring.”