Todd Zuniga, the founder of Literary Death Match, will make you believe in literature again.

Presenting Maisonneuve’s first annual Genre Fiction Contest!

La Sortie de l’opéra en l’an 2000” by Albert Robida.

Presenting: Maisonneuve’s first annual Genre Fiction Contest!

Starting now, Maisonneuve will run a literary contest every year, with the contest’s genre changing from year to year.

This year’s theme: science fiction.

(In future years, it could be fantasy, romance, noir—who knows! But it’s SF this year.)

Send us your finest original stories of the future, near-future, utopias, dystopias, aliens and the unknown limits of the universe!

Click here to read the complete contest rules and submit your work. Good luck!

A letter from Stockholm: what happens when the winner of the world’s biggest lit prize, Tomas Tranströmer, lives just upstairs.
My Neighbour, the Nobel Laureate

A letter from Stockholm: what happens when the winner of the world’s biggest lit prize, Tomas Tranströmer, lives just upstairs.

My Neighbour, the Nobel Laureate

“The chit-chat from the writers, professors and bibliophiles who had filled the Brigantine Room suddenly stopped as the curtain was pulled back. You would only have been able to see Didion if you were sitting near the front; how the back row sensed her presence instantly is still a mystery. But there she sat in the front row, not yet onstage, everyone staring at her.”
Dwelling on Blue Nights: Joan Didion in Toronto

“The chit-chat from the writers, professors and bibliophiles who had filled the Brigantine Room suddenly stopped as the curtain was pulled back. You would only have been able to see Didion if you were sitting near the front; how the back row sensed her presence instantly is still a mystery. But there she sat in the front row, not yet onstage, everyone staring at her.”

Dwelling on Blue Nights: Joan Didion in Toronto