Now Open: The Ninth Annual Thomas Morton Prize
The Puritan is proud to launch the Ninth Annual Thomas Morton Prize! The 2020 edition of the prize will be judged by PASHA MALLA (Fiction) and ROBIN RICHARDSON (Poetry).
FIRST PRIZE: $1,000
RUNNER UP: $200
ENTRY FEE: $20 (CAD)
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2020
Prizes for the Morton Prize 2020 will be awarded to the first-place entry and runner up in each category. Selected works will also be published in our Fall 2020 issue. Winners will be announced at the end of November, when we usually celebrate our annual Black Friday party (normally we would announce them at Black Friday, but who knows if that will happen this year).
Head over to the website to find contest details and enter. Good luck!
For Submitter-Tier Patreon supports, you’ll be able to enter the prize for free – no limit on how many submissions you send. Alternatively, you can also give one free entry in each category to someone else.
Morton Prize 2020 Judges
Pasha Malla is the author of five works of poetry and fiction, including the story collection The Withdrawal Method and the novel People Park. His fiction has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Trillium Book Prize, an Arthur Ellis Award and several National Magazine awards. It has also been shortlisted for the Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Prize, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent book is Kill the Mall, a novel set in a bad shopping centre. Pasha Malla lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
Robin Richardson is the author of four collections of poetry, including Sit How You Want (winner of the Trillium Book Award / named one of the best books of the year by CBC), and is Editor-in-Chief at Minola Review. Her work has appeared in Salon, POETRY, The American Poetry Review, The Walrus, Hazlitt, Best Canadian Poetry, and Tin House, among others. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, has won the Fortnight Poetry Prize in the U.K., The John B. Santorini Award, The Joan T. Baldwin Award, and has been shortlisted for the CBC, Walrus, and ARC Poetry Prizes, among others. Robin is a McDowell Fellow and acknowledges and is deeply grateful for the support of The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
