Canada Writes 2010 is now over, but it's never too early to start practising for next year! Canada's extreme writing contest is all about quick wits, but you can improve your game with practice. Try your own timed challenges in film, song, blog, tweet and ad categories. Keep writing - writing and thinking on your feet are great skills - and have fun!

Look for us here next January for another great season with celebrity judges and unexpected thrills as people from across Canada vie for the top prize with pens, paper and nerves of steel!

If you missed it, the final blog challenge from CW2010 winner Jason Sweeney was this : if you could travel back in time and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be and why? The winning blog came from Allison Trautman of Alberta. Congratulations, Allison!

Here's her answer to that 10-minute challenge:

I would travel back to just before I turned 12. I would tell myself, don't worry about the boys. The boys are no big deal. I would know that I found my soul mate at 18 and I didn't even go to school with him.

The honours just keep on coming for Canada Writes finalist Marc MacKenzie. He just won the prize for the Most Beautiful Tweet Ever Tweeted! Author and writer Stephen Fry announced the news at the prestigious Hay Festival in Wales this weekend.

Here's Marc's winning entry:
I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it'll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it.

Out of thousands of entries, Fry selected this one, he says, because he liked its humour and its reference to the absurd idea that "we need to build a new world." After all, "we are stuck with the world we have got." Read more about Marc's win on the BBC website and on CNN. Click here to check out more of Marc MacKenzie's tweets.