#StoriesInPublicSpaces A National Sticker Design Contest
What’s one true sentence about your life that the world should hear?
Not a paragraph. Not an essay polished until the rough edges are gone. Just one sentence, the kind that lives in your body before it ever makes it to paper. The kind that might make someone who reads it feel, suddenly and unexpectedly, less alone.
That’s what ECHOFORM and Canada Confesses are asking for this year through Stories in Public Spaces, a national sticker design contest open to youth ages 16 to 30 across Canada, co-created by both organizations and launching June 12, 2026. The prompts, prizes, design specifications, judging process, and the official submission form are all posted on the Canada Confesses blog.
We’re sharing this launch as part of our 2026 Ocean Week Canada programming. One of the contest’s three prompts, “the future I want to leave behind,” asks people to think about what they want to pass on to the generations after them, which is close to the spirit of Ocean Week itself.
Edmonton is landlocked and the water moving through this city is part of the same systems Ocean Week asks the world to pay attention to, so a sentence from a young person here belongs in that conversation too.
The other two prompts are open to whatever story is true for you, water related or not.
Rather than retell everything here, we’d rather point you to where it lives. The official contest post on the Canada Confesses blog has the complete prompts, prizes and recognition, design requirements, judging criteria, contest rules and timeline.
There are three prompts to choose from, ranging from something nobody asks you about but should to a conversation your community needs to have.
Pick whichever one is true for you.
Your design has to include the completed sentence as part of the sticker itself, not as a separate caption.
Submissions open June 12, 2026, and run through August 31, 2026. Winners are chosen after the deadline, and the results are announced in October at the ECHOFORM Artivism Cohort Showcase, where printed stickers will be on display alongside the rest of the cohort’s work. From there, everything moves into a permanent digital gallery hosted by both ECHOFORM and Canada Confesses.
No experience is required to enter this. Check out the blog post for a beginner friendly guide on all you need to know to start.
Have a question about the contest, your eligibility, or how to get started? You’re welcome to reach out directly:
ECHOFORM: echoformbyanurika@gmail.com
Canada Confesses: info@canadaconfesses.ca
Submission form: forms.gle/rxNGgSPxWrz482eCA
Full contest details: https://www.canadaconfesses.ca/post/storiesinpublicspaces-sticker-design-contest
Stories in Public Spaces was co-created by ECHOFORM and Canada Confesses. The full prompts, prizes, design requirements, judging criteria and contest rules are posted on the Canada Confesses blog.