2019 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards open for submissions

April 02, 2019 Editor News awardsdave greber freelance writers awardsfreelance awards

Freelancers, if you've written about social justice issues this year, it's time to submit your work for the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book and Magazine Awards.

The awards are now open for submissions and the competition closes on Friday June 28, 2019 at 5:00 P.M. PST.

The awards honour the memory of Dave Greber, a Calgary-based freelancer who wrote extensively about social justice issues during the final decade of his career. The awards were created in 2004, and are given each year to writers of social justice-related non-fiction.

The book award is worth $5,000 and the magazine award is set at $2,000. Work that has not yet been completed for publication is also eligible for the awards. To submit your work, you must be a resident of Canada and spend 70% of your working time as a self-employed freelance writer.

For more details about the requirements for each award, see the Dave Greber Awards website.

And you can read Story Board's interviews with some of the past Dave Greber Award winners right here.

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