The Word Guild @TheWordGuild
Encouraging, connecting, and equipping writers, editors, publishers, and speakers from the Christian faith community across Canada thewordguild.com Canada Joined November 2011-
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The countdown is on! ⏳ Only 3 WEEKS left to enter The 2026 Word Awards. Both published AND unpublished categories, we want to read your work. Don’t miss the deadline! Submit here: thewordguild.com/contests ✍️✨
Do you have a manuscript ready for the world to see? 📚 The Best New Canadian Manuscript contest invites fiction & non-fiction that expresses Christian faith in a compelling way. The winner will be published by Castle Quay Books! Details: TheWordGuild.com/BNCM-contest
✍ Writers across Canada are preparing their entries for The 2026 Word Awards. We hope you’ll be part of it too! 📅 Deadline: March 31 (midnight Pacific time) Find all the details at: thewordguild.com/contests
Help us find the next generation of Canadian Christian voices!✍️ We need your help reaching students for our Fresh Ink category. Entry is FREE! Please share this with: 🎓 Students 🍎 English Teachers 🏫 Dept Heads Spread the word. 📣✨ thewordguild.com/contests #TheWordAwards
Student Writers! 🎓 Enter our Fresh Ink categories for free! Get feedback from our judges and the chance to be shortlisted or win. 🏆 Categories: Short Story, Poetry, Non-fiction, Manuscript: 3 Chapters, & Script Details here: thewordguild.com/contests 📝✨
NEW CATEGORY ALERT! 🚨📚 We’ve officially added a Middle-Grade category to The 2026 Word Awards! We're now accepting submissions for: 🔹 Middle-Grade Fiction 🔹 Middle-Grade Non-Fiction Submit your 2025 titles at: thewordguild.com/contests ✍️✨ #TheWordAwards #MiddleGradeBooks
Submissions are already coming in for The 2026 Word Awards, and we’re excited to see the wonderful work being shared! If you have any questions about entering, we’re always happy to help.
🎉 Exciting News: Submissions for The 2026 Word Awards are Now Open! ⏰ Deadline: March 31, 2026 (midnight Pacific time) 🔗 For details on eligibility, entry categories, submission requirements, and more, visit: thewordguild.com/contests
Don't hit snooze!⏰ The clock is ticking, and the deadline for The Word Awards is March 31, 2024. Canadian Christian writers, this is your chance to make your mark! 📷 #TheWordAwards #DeadlineApproaching #CanadianWriters Details: thewordguild.com/contests/the-w…
🚨 SPREAD THE WORD...📣 The Short List will be ANNOUNCED *LIVE* TODAY!!! #twa2021 #WritingCommunity #TheWordAwards TWO WAYS TO WATCH: ➤ Streaming *live* on our Facebook page: facebook.com/thewordguild ➤ Zoom – Please RSVP by private message to receive the link See you soon!!
Get Ready to watch the *Live* Release of The 2021 Word Awards Short List for all categories! #twa2021 ➤ When: Wed, July 7 at 12pm EDT ➤ Where: Zoom – Please RSVP by private message to receive the Zoom link. Please Share!
Where do you do your best writing? Is it your office, at the kitchen table, outside, or somewhere else? Tell us about your favourite writing space, or post a picture and tag us! #writinglife #writingdesk #writingspace #thewordguild #thewordguildcommunity
Did you miss Tara Ross's interviews with some of our winners from The 2020 Word Awards? Watch them at the link below to hear about their writing & publishing stories, their experience with The Word Awards, and their advice for new writers! #twa2021 youtube.com/channel/UCoQh-…
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⏰ Last chance to enter The 2021 Word Awards! Do you blog, write fiction (any genre), poetry, memoir, academic work, devotional, song lyrics, etc.? Send us your entries by MIDNIGHT tonight (Pacific time). Learn more & Submit your entries here: thewordguild.com/submission-for…
🚨 BLOGGERS: Enter your blog for the David Mainse Best Blog of The Year Award. Winner receives a cash prize! Deadline: TOMORROW (March 31, midnight PDT) #twa2021 #writingcontest ➤ Learn More & Submit Here: thewordguild.com/submission-for… ➤ Please RT!
LIVE on Monday: Join Tara Ross in conversation with Ruth Coghill who, along with editor Sara Davison, won the 2020 Debra Fieguth Social Justice Award for "Unborn, Untold: True Stories of Abortion and God's Healing Grace." ➤ March 8 at 2 pm (EDT) ➤ RSVP by PM for the Zoom link
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LIVE TODAY: Join Tara Ross in conversation with Janet Surette, whose book "Scarlett’s Spectacles" won at The 2020 Word Awards! #twa2021 #writingcontest Please RT! ➤ When: Monday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) ➤ Where: Zoom – Please RSVP by private message to receive the Zoom link
LIVE TODAY: Join Tara Ross in conversation with Janet Surette, whose book "Scarlett’s Spectacles" won at The 2020 Word Awards! #twa2021 #writingcontest Please RT! ➤ When: Monday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) ➤ Where: Zoom – Please RSVP by private message to receive the Zoom link
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