2013 Gabehart Prize Submission Guidelines
Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for
both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on
by our community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend,
patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal
decade in the 1980s.
One winner will be chosen in each of three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive:
$200, plus up to $100 in travel, lodging, or dining expenses (receipts required)
the opportunity to read her winning work during the conference on September 20–21, 2013.
two 2-day passes for herself and one guest
one space in a small-group writing workshop for winner (guest must pay workshop fee)
Eligibility
Please do not apply if you have won this award in the past five years (2008 or later).
Works that are previously published are not eligible for this award.
The contest is open to any female writer of English.
Employees or board members of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference are not eligible.
Work Format
Length: no more than 5 manuscript pages of poetry (which may consist of
more than one poem—this guideline has changed from previous years); or
no more than 6,000 words of fiction or nonfiction
Please submit two copies of the work.
The author's name or address must not appear anywhere on the work.
The work must be on standard white paper, single-sided.
Paginate correctly.
Submission Information
Each work entered must be accompanied by its own entry form and a $10
entry fee payable to Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Please write a
single check for multiple entries.
Submission of more than one work is permissible; each must be
accompanied by its own entry form and fee. If multiple works are entered
with a single entry fee, only the first work will be accepted.
Entries must be postmarked by July 1, 2013.
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you would like notification that the entry has been received.
We cannot return entries.
Contest results will be posted on our website on August 9, 2013. Winners will be notified immediately.
Please send entries to:
Betty Gabehart Prize
Kentucky Women Writers Conference
University of Kentucky
232 East Maxwell Street
Lexington, KY 40506-0344
Direct inquiries to: kentuckywomenwritersATgmailDOTcom Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Fiction Competition: 2014 Bard Fiction Prize
Bard Fiction Prize
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising, emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to the monetary award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students.
2013 Bard Fiction Prize Recipient:
Brian Conn
About the Bard Fiction Prize
The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October, continues Bard's long-standing position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard's literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction to pursue their creative goals and provide an opportunity to work in a fertile and intellectual environment. Last year's Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to writer Benjamin Hale for his book, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011).
Bard Invites Submissions for Its Annual Fiction Prize for Young Writers
To apply, candidates should write a cover letter explaining the project they plan to work on while at Bard and submit a C.V., along with three copies of the published book they feel best represents their work. No manuscripts will be accepted. Applications for the 2014 prize must be received by July 15, 2013.
For information about the Bard Fiction Prize, call 845-758-7087, send an e-mail to bfpATbardDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . ), or visit our website. Applicants may also request information by writing to:
The Bard Fiction Prize
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000.
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising, emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to the monetary award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students.
2013 Bard Fiction Prize Recipient:
Brian Conn
About the Bard Fiction Prize
The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October, continues Bard's long-standing position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard's literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction to pursue their creative goals and provide an opportunity to work in a fertile and intellectual environment. Last year's Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to writer Benjamin Hale for his book, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011).
Bard Invites Submissions for Its Annual Fiction Prize for Young Writers
To apply, candidates should write a cover letter explaining the project they plan to work on while at Bard and submit a C.V., along with three copies of the published book they feel best represents their work. No manuscripts will be accepted. Applications for the 2014 prize must be received by July 15, 2013.
For information about the Bard Fiction Prize, call 845-758-7087, send an e-mail to bfpATbardDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . ), or visit our website. Applicants may also request information by writing to:
The Bard Fiction Prize
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000.
Poetry Competition: Literal Latte
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Literal Latté is
given annually for a poem.
Submit up to six poems of no more than 2,000
words each with a $10 entry fee ($15 for up to 10 poems) by July 15.
Call, e-mail, or visit the website for complete guidelines.
Deadline: July 15, 2013
Entry Fee: $10
E-mail address: litlatteATaolDOTcom
(Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Literal Latté
Poetry Award
200 East 10th Street, Suite 240
New York, NY 10003
(212) 260-5532
Jenine Gordon Bockman, Editor.
Poetry Award
200 East 10th Street, Suite 240
New York, NY 10003
(212) 260-5532
Jenine Gordon Bockman, Editor.
Call for Submissions: museum of americana
Between June 1st and June 31st, the museum of americana will accept submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, art, reviews, and interviews for Issues Three and Four.
We seek work that showcases and/or repurposes historical American culture. This is, of course, an enormous and diverse tub of spare parts, and we want to see if you can turn them into a hot rod. Give us fiction that dramatizes weird old folk songs or steals their characters. Give us love poetry that mixes language cribbed from The Federalist Papers with language cribbed from WWII propaganda posters. We want medicine shows and riverboats, Doo-Wop and Duke Snider. We want aspects of Americana we may not have even heard of yet.
Please see our first two issues and our complete guidelines for a clearer picture of our aesthetic.
We seek work that showcases and/or repurposes historical American culture. This is, of course, an enormous and diverse tub of spare parts, and we want to see if you can turn them into a hot rod. Give us fiction that dramatizes weird old folk songs or steals their characters. Give us love poetry that mixes language cribbed from The Federalist Papers with language cribbed from WWII propaganda posters. We want medicine shows and riverboats, Doo-Wop and Duke Snider. We want aspects of Americana we may not have even heard of yet.
Please see our first two issues and our complete guidelines for a clearer picture of our aesthetic.
Creative Nonfiction Competition: 2013 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Editors' Award
2013 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Editors' Award
A prize of $1,500 and publication in Southern Indiana Review is given annually for a work of creative nonfiction. All entries are considered for publication. Submit an essay of up to 35 pages with a $20 entry fee ($5 for each additional entry) by June 1, 2013, to the following address:
Southern Indiana Review
Thomas A. Wilhelmus Editors' Award
University of Southern Indiana
8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47712
A prize of $1,500 and publication in Southern Indiana Review is given annually for a work of creative nonfiction. All entries are considered for publication. Submit an essay of up to 35 pages with a $20 entry fee ($5 for each additional entry) by June 1, 2013, to the following address:
Southern Indiana Review
Thomas A. Wilhelmus Editors' Award
University of Southern Indiana
8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47712
Call for Submissions: Stymie Magazine
Stymie is an online literary magazine focused on sport (and games) in
literature, be it through fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. We are now
seeking submissions of all of the aforementioned. We love the sport
themed work (i.e. baseball) published at places like Hobart and The
Southern Review, and other places like Golf World (in their annual
fiction issue).
We're partial to the essays of David Foster Wallace, the short stories of Kelly Link, and other such things. We'd be ecstatic to get an essay on 1986's Double Dribble for the NES (achieved in November 2012, though we'd welcome more).
For more information, visit our website.
We're partial to the essays of David Foster Wallace, the short stories of Kelly Link, and other such things. We'd be ecstatic to get an essay on 1986's Double Dribble for the NES (achieved in November 2012, though we'd welcome more).
For more information, visit our website.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Mystery Novel Competition: The Tony Hillerman Prize
Hillerman Prize guidelines and specifics.
Sponsored by WORDHARVEST, the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference (THWC) and St. Martin's Press, LLC
The contest is open to any professional or non-professional writer, regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published mystery, as defined by the guidelines below, and is not under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. Only one manuscript entry is permitted per writer.
All manuscripts submitted: a) must be original works of book length (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words) written in the English language by the contestants; b) must not violate the rights of any third party, and c) must generally follow the guidelines below.
Guidelines
--Murder or another serious crime or crimes is at the heart of the story, and emphasis is on the solution rather than the details of the crime.
--The story's primary setting is the Southwestern United States, including at least one of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. (The decision of the Competition's judges as to whether or not a manuscript qualifies will be final.)
--Nominees will be selected by judges chosen by the organizers of the THWC, with the assistance of editorial staff of St. Martin's Press, and the winner will be chosen by St. Martin's editors. The decision of the editors as to the winner of the contest will be final. St. Martin's reserves the right not to select any winner if, in the sole opinion of the editors, none of the manuscripts submitted are of publishable quality.
--An attempt will be made to notify the contest winner, if any, no later than October 1.
--If a winner is selected, St. Martin's Press will publish the winning manuscript by offering to enter into its standard form author's agreement with the contestant. The winner will receive an advance against future royalties of $10,000. Those terms of the offer not specified in the printed text of the St. Martin's Press standard form author's agreement will be determined by St. Martin's Press at its sole discretion. The contestant may request reasonable changes in the offered terms, but St. Martin's shall not be obligated to agree to any such changes. St. Martin's may, but will not be required to, consider for publication manuscripts submitted by other contestants.
--All entries must be received or postmarked no later than June 1 and must include: a) A double-spaced and neatly typed copy of the manuscript (photocopies are acceptable), with pages numbered consecutively from beginning to end. The author's name should appear only on the title page, and otherwise not appear anywhere on the manuscript pages. b) A letter or cover sheet containing the name, address, email address and telephone number of the contestant and the contestant's previous writing credits, if any. c) The application form, duly completed and an SASE.
--All entries must be mailed to St. Martin's Press.
--For additional copies of the rules and to request an entry form, please send a stamped, self addressed envelope to:
St. Martin's Minotaur/THWC Competition
St. Martin's Minotaur
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10010
*Each contestant must keep a copy of the manuscript for his or her own protection. St. Martin's Press will not be responsible for lost, stolen, or mislaid manuscripts. Because of the great volume of submissions we receive, the fact that judges are volunteers with full-time responsibilities elsewhere, and the fact that most writers now have the work in their computers, manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send return postage or envelopes.
No critical evaluation or commentary will be offered by the judges or the editorial staff of St. Martin's Press unless, in the sole opinion of the editorial staff evaluation or commentary is appropriate in the case of a manuscript being considered for publication.
This Competition is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
*It is important that you submit your manuscript as early as possible. Our judges are volunteers who are extremely busy with their primary concerns, and it is inevitable that your submission will get a more careful reading if the judge does not have to contend with a flood of last-minute entries. However, it is not necessary to send it the most expensive way. We judge on-time delivery by the post-mark or equivalent, not by the date the judge receives the manuscript.
Sponsored by WORDHARVEST, the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference (THWC) and St. Martin's Press, LLC
The contest is open to any professional or non-professional writer, regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published mystery, as defined by the guidelines below, and is not under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. Only one manuscript entry is permitted per writer.
All manuscripts submitted: a) must be original works of book length (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words) written in the English language by the contestants; b) must not violate the rights of any third party, and c) must generally follow the guidelines below.
Guidelines
--Murder or another serious crime or crimes is at the heart of the story, and emphasis is on the solution rather than the details of the crime.
--The story's primary setting is the Southwestern United States, including at least one of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. (The decision of the Competition's judges as to whether or not a manuscript qualifies will be final.)
--Nominees will be selected by judges chosen by the organizers of the THWC, with the assistance of editorial staff of St. Martin's Press, and the winner will be chosen by St. Martin's editors. The decision of the editors as to the winner of the contest will be final. St. Martin's reserves the right not to select any winner if, in the sole opinion of the editors, none of the manuscripts submitted are of publishable quality.
--An attempt will be made to notify the contest winner, if any, no later than October 1.
--If a winner is selected, St. Martin's Press will publish the winning manuscript by offering to enter into its standard form author's agreement with the contestant. The winner will receive an advance against future royalties of $10,000. Those terms of the offer not specified in the printed text of the St. Martin's Press standard form author's agreement will be determined by St. Martin's Press at its sole discretion. The contestant may request reasonable changes in the offered terms, but St. Martin's shall not be obligated to agree to any such changes. St. Martin's may, but will not be required to, consider for publication manuscripts submitted by other contestants.
--All entries must be received or postmarked no later than June 1 and must include: a) A double-spaced and neatly typed copy of the manuscript (photocopies are acceptable), with pages numbered consecutively from beginning to end. The author's name should appear only on the title page, and otherwise not appear anywhere on the manuscript pages. b) A letter or cover sheet containing the name, address, email address and telephone number of the contestant and the contestant's previous writing credits, if any. c) The application form, duly completed and an SASE.
--All entries must be mailed to St. Martin's Press.
--For additional copies of the rules and to request an entry form, please send a stamped, self addressed envelope to:
St. Martin's Minotaur/THWC Competition
St. Martin's Minotaur
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10010
*Each contestant must keep a copy of the manuscript for his or her own protection. St. Martin's Press will not be responsible for lost, stolen, or mislaid manuscripts. Because of the great volume of submissions we receive, the fact that judges are volunteers with full-time responsibilities elsewhere, and the fact that most writers now have the work in their computers, manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send return postage or envelopes.
No critical evaluation or commentary will be offered by the judges or the editorial staff of St. Martin's Press unless, in the sole opinion of the editorial staff evaluation or commentary is appropriate in the case of a manuscript being considered for publication.
This Competition is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
*It is important that you submit your manuscript as early as possible. Our judges are volunteers who are extremely busy with their primary concerns, and it is inevitable that your submission will get a more careful reading if the judge does not have to contend with a flood of last-minute entries. However, it is not necessary to send it the most expensive way. We judge on-time delivery by the post-mark or equivalent, not by the date the judge receives the manuscript.
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