WHAT: Submit your original, unpublished stories stories between 1200 and 1500 words.

WHEN: Competition opens: September 1, 2013. Deadline to submit: November 1, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ET

WHO: All Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada can submit.

HOW: While the competition is active, submit online by clicking the "submit" link below or, if you wish to submit by mail, you can download the offline submission form.

A fee of $25.00 (taxes included) for administration purposes is required for each entry.

THE PRIZE: The First Prize winner will receive $6,000, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts, and will have his/her story published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and on the Canada Writes website. He or she will also be awarded a two-week residency at The Banff Centre's Leighton Artists' Colony, and will be interviewed on CBC Radio.

The 4 runners-up will each receive $1,000, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts, and their stories will be published on the Canada Writes website.

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The Grand Prize winner of the 2012-2013 CBC Short Story Prize is Becky Blake of Toronto, ON for “The Three Times Rule."

Becky received $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, and her prizewinning story “The Three Times Rule” was published in the April edition of enRoute Magazine. Becky also received a two-week residency at The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists’ Colony.

The four runners-up, who each received $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts are:

• Mathew Howard of Toronto, ON for "Old Hands"
• Roderick Moody-Corbett of Calgary, AB for "Parse"
• Eliza Roberston of Victoria, BC for "L'Étranger"
• Jay Tameling of Edmonton, AB for "Sweet Dynamite"