First Prize Fiction – Mark Jordan Manner

Second Prize Fiction — Faith Arkorful

First Prize Poetry — Elana Wolff

Second Prize Poetry – Michael Prior

Third Prize Poetry – Candace de Taeye

Honourable Mention — Jason Heit

Best Theme Interpretation — Kevin Spenst

Congratulations to the winners! More information on our chapbook and launch information coming soon!

Best,

Jess

co-editor

Submit one unpublished short story or up to two pieces of flash fiction (under 500 words).

Max 2500 words (we prefer to publish work around 1000 or 1500 words for short fiction).

Poetry

Submit 3-5 previously unpublished poems (10 pages max).

Art

 Please submit your best pieces of artwork including illustration, prints, paintings, and photography.

Keep in mind that Echolocation can not afford to print in colour. Black and white submissions only!

Higher resolution is always better.

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Include a short third person bio in your cover letter.

Must be resident of North America.

Thanks for thinking of Echolocation for your submission! You can expect to hear from us in May 2013!

Just wanted to give you a quick reminder that our “The Chase” Chapbook Contest is closing tomorrow. Send in your submissions! Entry fee is only $5 for a great chance to win some huge cash prizes (think about all the coffees and meals you could buy) and eternal glory as one of the published authors and poets in The Chase Chapbook. 

Details are in our submissions section and on our submittable.

Good luck and happy writing!

Jess

co-editor

Interpret the theme of “The Chase” in poetry (2 pages max) or prose (1500 word limit) . Top prize in each category is $100 and publication in a special edition Echolocation Chapbook. 1st and 2nd runners up will also receive publication.

Submit at http://echolocationmag.submittable.com

Entry fee of $5 also includes a copy of the The Chase Chapbook compilation of finalists.
Other important requirements:

• Must be a Canadian resident/citizen
• Submissions must be previously unpublished
• No simultaneous submissions for our contests
• Double-spaced for prose, single spaced for poetry.
• Prose max 1500 words. Poetry max 2 pages.
• Please include a third person bio in the cover letter section along with your contact info.
• All entries should not include the name of the writer on the actual submission.

2012chapbook

We do have a small handful of hard copies, and a limited number of the printed broadsheet of the contest’s winning entry, “Olbers’s Paradox,” by Andy Verboom for sale. Drop us a line if you’d like to purchase any of these. So that you can Revisit these poems in the flesh, on the page.

Just a quick word to let you know that we’ve extended the deadline of our THE CHASE CHAPBOOK SHORT FICTION AND POETRY CONTEST.

For just $5, you can have your chance to win publication and $100!! Whoa.

Deadline extended to January 15th, 2013. 

Details and submissions: http://echolocationmag.submittable.com

We’re also going to make some changes to our orders so that you can order back issues easier online! Hooray!

Hope everyone is doing good in this balmy December weather.

Best,

Jess

co-editor

Echolocation Magazine

SHORT FICTION/POETRY CONTEST WITH $100 FIRST PRIZE

Echolocation Magazine invites entries for their contest: THE CHASE. Interpret the theme
of “The Chase” in a fresh, quirky way and submit entries of poetry (2 pages max) or prose
(1500 word limit) . Entry fee of $5 (includes a copy of the final published chapbook). Top prize in poetry is $100 and publication in a special edition Echolocation Chapbook. 1st and 2nd runners up will also receive publication. Top prize for prose is $100 and publication in Echolocation’s special edition Chapbook. 1st runner up will also receive publication. 2nd prose runner up receives bragging rights (special bragging rights certificate!). Submissions open Nov 5-Dec 5, 2012. Winners and Finalists announced in Feb. 2013. Open to Canadian citizens and residents.
Other important requirements:

• Must be a Canadian resident/citizen
• Submissions must be previously unpublished
• No simultaneous submissions for our contests
• Double-spaced for prose, single spaced for poetry.
• Prose max 1500 words. Poetry max 2 pages.
• Please include a third person bio in the cover letter section along with your contact info.
• All entries should not include the name of the writer on the actual submission.

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Echolocation is launching Issue 12!!
Where: No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College Street, Toronto, Ontario (just West of Bathurst)
When: Thursday, November 1st.
Time: 7pm with readings starting around 8pm
Cost for entry: Free! Free! Free!

We’re going to have a fun time and bring in November HARD.
Readings will start around 8pm. Come see:
The charming and chivalrous Ben Ladouceur
The hilarious and heartwarming Andrew Battershill
The pertinent and pretty Julie McArthur
AND MORE!

Readings will be over quickly and then the fun will begin. DJ, dancing, discussions (amongst yourselves), etc.

SPREAD THE WORD!!

Issue 12 features work by Caitlin Thompson, Ben Ladouceur, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Tristan Chirovolu, Stefan Berg, Andrew Battershill, Jeff Nagy, Henry Walters, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Julie McArthur, Catherine Graham, Laura Merleau, Eric Zboya, Andy Johnson, Joel Allegretti, Jenni B. Baker, Stefan Berg, Andre Babyn, Will Johnson, Nadia Ragbar, Lauren de Paepe, Barbara Konecny, Paul Franz, and Phoebe Wang. Cover art by Vuk Dragojevic!

You can pick up your issue for $10! Deals on multiple copies purchased at once (team up with your friends!). Bundle packs of back issues for sale for dirt cheap!

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/256896717766033/

TWEET at us: @echolocationmag

Love love and thanks for all the support,
Jess

Co-Editor
Echolocation Mag

Ps: Check out the beautiful cover image by Vuk Dragojevic!

I flaked away the decade old oxidization from my design and layout skills, and with a borrowed copy of Indesign and last year’s templates, spent the last two weeks in adjusting margins, writing mastheads and arranging bios. I worked in bed, with a bottle of cream lager on my bedside, and nearly knocked it over when at last I could send a PDF of Issue 12 to the fiction and poetry editors. I have a reputation though for catching things before they tip over, and the files made to Coach House with (pinkies crossed and kissed) plenty of time for it to be ready for Word on the Street this year.

I can’t quite believe it’s in, and done, and that we pulled it off. echolocation has always been a shaky, though resilient effort, and I’m going to unashamedly sound off on clichés and write how fantastically, gratefully, tearfully proud I am of the volunteer efforts of this year’s team. All the hyperboles! We checked so many things off lists this year– launching a blog, starting a Twitter which now has a very healthy 250+ followers and is steadily gaining every day, participating in book fairs and festivals, shouldering our way into your local university libraries, holding parties and readings and bakesales and kicking up a dust of literary activity.

It’s cockle-warming to leave echolocation in such a healthy shape for the new incoming editors, Nadia Ragbar and Jess Taylor, both in their second year of the MA in Creative Writing at U of T, and both with some series event and grant writing chops in their drawers. I feel sure we’ll headed for another whirlywind year of boosting good writing and providing venues for writers to co-mingle and collude.

Keep an eye out for the new issue at the U of T St. George Bookstore, and at our table at the Magazine Mews. This year’s issue will feature new poetry and fiction Joel Allegretti, Andre Babyn, Jenni B. Baker, Andrew Battershill, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Tristan Chirovolu, Lauren de Paepe, Catherine Graham, Andy Johnson, Will Johnson, Ben Ladouceur, Julie McArthur, Laura Merleau, Jeff Nagy, Nadia Ragbar, Caitlin Thomson, Henry Walters, Eric Zboya. No end of riches! You”ll find photography by Eleanor Lenore Bennett and Barbara Konecny, linocuts by Stefan Berg and cover art by Vuk Dragojevic, and to round out the issue, myself and poetry editor Paul Franz have a few reviews of recent Coach House titles. It’s a tighter, more compact issue that our previous, but no less potent. Order yours soon.

Signing off,

Hyperbolic Finishes

Unlike journals with a much greater circulation, Echolocation isn’t distributed in university libraries through a database like EBSCO. Which is a shame, because emerging writers in Canada should be able to find and read our issues, for free, on the shelves of their college.

There’s one way you can easily help– if you’re afaculty member, current student, alumni, staff member or even an other (i.e. “community borrower”) of a university or college, you can go to the library page and find their “request a title” page. This really does help us generate interest from libraries’ journal acquisitions department.

We’ve made it even easier for you by posting the links to several libraries our distribution team is working hard to get us in. It takes less than a minute to click through and submit your request! We’ll be tweeting these links until the start of the school in the fall. If you have a link to add, please tweet us @echolocationmag or email us!

LIBRARIES THAT NEED US (They don’t know it yet, but they do!)

University of Toronto Scarborough

University of Toronto Mississauga

University of British Columbia

Brock University

University of Calgary

Dalhousie University

McMaster University

Queen’s University

University of Regina

University of Windsor

A reminder too, that we are currently on the shelves at the University of Toronto’s Robarts and Victoria College Libraries, Ryerson University Library and York University Library.

Echolocation wants in, and you can help us do that!