Annual Prose & Poetry Contest 2012
Entry Deadline December 31, 2012
Over $1100.00 in prize money
1st Prize (Fiction and Poetry) $300 Sponsored by Frontenac House
2nd Prize (Fiction and Poetry) $150. Sponsored by The Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society
3rd Prize (fiction and Poetry) $75.00 Sponsored by Carol Mock
Honourable Mention (Fiction and Poetry) $25.00 Sponsored by Shelley McAneeley
Winners will be published in Volume XXIII Number 2
Guest Editor/Judge
Patrick Lane will be the guest editor/ judge for this contest. Patrick’s poetry, short stories, criticism, and non-fiction have won many prizes over the past forty-five years. The author of more than twenty books, he is heralded as the “the best poet of his generation” by writers and critics alike. |
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Contest Rules 2012
Entry fee: $21.00 (includes one year subscription)*
AWCS Members $10.00
Additional entries $5.00 (at time of original entry only)
Maximum 3000 words prose, or 5 poems per entry.
Both Electronic entries and Mailed entries must be received on or before December 31st, 2012.
Only previously unpublished work may be entered. No simultaneous entries.
Prose entries must be double spaced with a title and page number at the top of each page, NO author’s name on entry.
Poetry entries must be single spaced, NO author’s name on manuscript. Poems that run more than one page require a title and page number at the top of each page.
Mailed Submissions General Formatting page size: 8.5” X 11” , all margins: 1.5”, 12 pt Times New Roman font.
Please Note - Short listed entries may be selected for publication to round out the issue and will be paid the standard page rate.
To download a pdf entry form to mail in your entry click here.
and pay with PayPal (you do not need to have a PayPal account to pay with PayPal and you may use your credit card.
* out of country entrants will receive a digital edition subscription unless they wish to pay the postage.