{"id":118333,"date":"2025-09-04T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118333\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:32:07","slug":"submissions-for-the-w-o-mitchell-book-prize-open-in-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118333\/","title":{"rendered":"Submissions for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Open in Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/calgary-library-hero-screen-15-1536x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The City of Calgary is now accepting submissions for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, honoring the legacy of renowned Calgary writer and broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>W.O. Mitchell is well known for his novel \u201cWho Has Seen the Wind,\u201d which portrays Prairie life through the eyes of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions are open now until December 1, 2025.\u00a0 To be eligible, books must be published between January 1 and December 1, 2025, and authors must have resided in Calgary for at least 2 years before December 31, 2025.\u00a0 Categories include fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children\u2019s literature, and drama.<\/p>\n<p>Entries will be evaluated by an independent jury from the Writers\u2019 Guild of Alberta, and shortlisted authors can present their work at a public reading.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 29 writers have received this accolade, with the winner to receive a $5,000 cash prize at the Calgary Awards in June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, visit the city of Calgary <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.calgary.ca\/submissions-for-the-city-of-calgary-wo-mitchell-book-prize-are-now-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Calgary is now accepting submissions for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, honoring the legacy of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[901,353,49,2798,48,4398,75,32918,5593],"class_list":["post-118333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-alberta","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-country-music","tag-entertainment","tag-indigenous","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}