Last year, Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine teamed up to establish an innovative and exciting new literary competition, looking for the most unique and original literary voices in Canada. And we're doing it all over again this year. So if you're an emerging poet or short story writer or a just some dude with a crazy knack for stringing a few words together well, won't you think of asking Heather O'Neill or A. Rawlings their opinion? You could wind up as Canada's newest literary darling, have your work published in Matrix, and come to Pop '09 for a night in your honour.

Just send your work in for consideration this spring. Both poetry and prose winners will receive a round-trip ticket to Pop Montreal from September 30th till October 4th, 2009, a VIP pass to the Pop Montreal Festival, free accommodation, fall publication in Matrix Magazine with full honorarium, and presentation at a special Matrix Litpop event during the festival.

The contest will open on April 1st, and rule, regulations, and all the legal rigamarole will be up soon on both this site and Matrix's.