The GGs and ggreat opportunities to participate

The Canada Council for the Arts, CBC/Radio-Canada, Indigo Books and Music and partnering literary festivals are offering Canadians various ways of enjoying the GG season: contests, activities and events.

National Partners

CBC Radio Canada

Read

Read a series of texts by past GG winners.

CBC Books and Zone d’écriture will present a commissioned series: 10 literary creations in English and French, written by past GG winners on the theme: Close Encounters with Science.

Win with your own original work

Members of the public are invited to submit their own literary creation on the same theme, for the chance to win a $ 1,000 cash prize.

Indigo

Meet the 2012 GG winners

These 14 acclaimed writers include novelists, non-fiction writers, poets, playwrights, illustrators and translators from across Canada. They will gather in Ottawa for one night to sign books and meet the public.

Tuesday, November 27
7 to 9 pm

Chapters Rideau
47 Rideau Street
Ottawa

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Festival Partners

• Kingston WritersFest, Kingston
  September 26-30, 2012
• Festival international de la poésie de Trois-Rivières 
  September 28 to October 7, 2012
• WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival
  October 9-14, 2012
• Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival
  October 16-21, 2012
• International Festival of Authors, Toronto
  October 18-28, 2012
• Atwater Poetry Project, Montréal 
  November 1, 2012
• Frye Festival, Moncton
  April 22-28, 2013