The Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition is a biennial

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, presented by Queen's University to plays by Canadian playwrights."Workshops focus on two winning plays". ''

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'', August 16, 1997. The award was created in 1997, funded by a bequest to the university by the late playwright

Herman Voaden Herman Arthur Voaden, FRSA (19 January 1903 – 27 June 1991) was a Canadian playwright.Herman Vo ...

. The competition awards a first prize of $3,000 and a second prize of $2,000. In addition to the cash prizes, both the first and second prize winners receive workshop productions of their play at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. Honourable mentions are also given. Prize winners have included Brian Drader's ''The Norbals'',"Playwriting contest winners announced". ''

'', May 6, 1997.

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's ''Two Words for Snow'',

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's ''Slants'',

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's ''Last Romantics''"Voaden playwriting winners announced". ''

'', June 9, 2001. and ''The Shooting Stage'', Kent Stetson's ''New Arcadia'', Jason Hall's ''Eyes Catch Fire'', Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman's ''Scratch'',

Kevin Loring Kevin Loring (born November 24, 1974) is a Canadian playwright and actor. As a playwright, he won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding ...

's ''Where the Blood Mixes'',

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Canadian playwright, theatre director,"Sex Trade Fuels Gas Girls". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 24, 2014. emcee, and arts administrator. She is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-lang ...

's ''Gas Girls'',

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's ''Late Company'', David James Brock's ''Wet'',"Intense, immersive Wet plunges you into postwar trauma"
''

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'', May 14, 2018. Norman Yeung's ''Theory'', and Michael Kras' ''The Team''.

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*{{official, http://www.queensu.ca/drama/Voaden-Playwriting-Contest/ Canadian dramatist and playwright awards 1997 establishments in Ontario Awards established in 1997 Queen's University at Kingston