2025 Righting History Literary Contest

We believe storytelling is a tool of resistance, healing, and transformation. We invited writers and poets across what is currently Canada to explore the intersections of environment, equity, and resistance through original creative work in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. ​

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Our literary contest’s theme for 2025 is: (Im)migration Stories at the Nexus of Climate Justice in Canada

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2025's Righting History offerings are generously funded by the Toronto Foundation. Through this initiative, we’re creating space for migrants’ roles, rights, and contributions in so-called Canada. The 10 winners created literary works that centre migrants’ perspectives on climate and social justice, and trace connections between  places, memories, borders, and ecologies.  

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Winners

• 1st place: Adam Arca for How to Stop Drowning   

• 2nd place: Ébby for Hiraeth

• 3rd place: Anjali Kathir for "Canadian Parliament" and Other Works Translated for the Power Elite

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• Honourable Mentions: 

  • Sky Jing Lee 

  • Kiemia Rezagian 

  • Steve Tornes  

  • Adil Mukhi 

  • My-Le Vu 

  • Jaspreet Kaur

  • Rhea Kachroo

  • Breanna Ho

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Read the selected pieces through our digital publication Movement-Building From the Margins: Curated Collection of Stories & Critical Scholarship Rooted in Creative Resistance!