Here are the recently finalized guidelines for my writing group's contest (The Writer's Group of The Traid, based in Greensboro, NC). Feel free to pass it around anywhere you think folks might be interested.OSC was the final judge for the short fiction last time, so I was really happy to get him to do the poetry for me this year. Our fiction judge this year (P.T. Deutermann) is a member of our group, with 10 suspense/thriller novels to his credit since he started writing in 1991.
Please note that we're not looking for submissions until the first of 2006. I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up. The thing I'm most excited about this year is that I got our board of dirctors to make the necessary arrangements to publish an anthology. That way it's not just the top one or two people winning money, but a the top ten writers in each category having their work published. And all of the published finalists will receive a free copy of the book.
Guidelines are as follows:
The Fifth Greensboro Awards
for Poetry and Short Fiction
Guidelines
$500.00 ~ Poetry First Place Prize $500.00 ~ Short Fiction First Place Prize
Plus, publication in an anthology for the top ten finalists in each category.
Poetry: Typed, single-spaced. Each entry must contain five (5) poems. Award is presented for best poem group. Maximum of 100 lines per poem. Any form, style or theme. (No verse for children, no light verse.) Send two (2) copies of each poem.
Short Fiction: Typed, double-spaced. Font should be Courier or Times New Roman 12 point with one (1) inch margins. Maximum word length is 4,000 words per story. Word count must appear at the top of first page. Any theme or genre. (No fiction for children or young adults.)
Send two (2) copies of each story.
Entry Fee: $20 for a group of five (5) poems; $20 for each short story. Entry fees for submissions sent from outside the US must be in US funds/money order/bank draft/ or cashier’s check. Make all checks payable to Writers’ Group of the Triad.
Entries must be postmarked between January 1, 2006 and May 1, 2006
Entries that do not adhere to all guidelines will not be considered.
Winners Announced: September 1, 2006
• All work must be original and previously unpublished, including the Internet and your personal web site.
• Must include a COVER SHEET stating name, address, phone, fax, email, title of poems or story, a one paragraph bio, and the word count for the story.
• NO NAMES ON THE ACTUAL POEMS OR SHORT STORIES.
• Multiple submissions accepted. May submit either poetry and short fiction, or more than one group of five (5) poems, or more than one short story. $20 for each submission.
• Manuscripts will not be returned. They will be recycled.
• WGOT members are NOT eligible for this competition.
• Final Judge for Poetry Orson Scott Card, publisher and co-creator of the on-line poetry journal Strong Verse (www.strongverse.org)
• Final Judge for Short Fiction P.T. Deutermann, author of ten novels, published by St. Martins Press (www.ptdeutermann.com)
• Send SASE for list of winners.
• For additional copies of guidelines EMAIL our PR Director, Pam Cable at: cable854@earthlink.net, or me (Ed Schubert) at ed-terry@att.et
Send entry(s) to:
The Writers’ Group of the Triad
4118 Huff Rd.
Archdale, NC 27263
www.triadwriters.org
[This message has been edited by Edmund (edited November 04, 2005).]
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