What: 3000 words (unless otherwise mentioned)
- Creative Nonfiction (topic: local ghost stories)
- Crime/Mystery
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Literary Fiction (FREE)
- Novel Excerpt (10,000 words)
- One-Act Play (10-15 minutes)
- Poetry (up to 3 poems, total of 100 lines)
- Romance
- Screenwriting (10-55 pages)
- Young Writers--Short Story and Poetry (High School Students in Greater Knoxville Only) ($5)
When: August 15, 2014
How Much: $10 members, $20 nonmembers (unless otherwise mentioned)
Knoxville Writers' Guild
Contest Guidelines
The deadline for submissions has been extended to August 15th, 2014.
Here are the General Guidelines for all KWG contests.
The following guidelines apply to all KWG contests. See specific guidelines under each contest heading for individual exceptions or additions.Note: Failure to adhere to any rule renders your entry subject to rejection with forfeiture of contest entry fee. Please read the rules carefully; they help us process entries more efficiently and fairly.
- Contests are open to all individuals above the age of 18 with the following exceptions: Members of the KWG board of directors and contests committee may not submit entries to KWG competitions. Previous first prizewinners are barred from the contest they won for one year. Also, see Specific Guidelines under Young Writer's Prizes for exceptions to those contests.
- Use black type on a white page with 12 point Times New Roman or Courier fonts. Set your margins to one inch, and do not justify. Poetry entries may be single spaced, not limited to double spacing.
- Contestants may enter more than one contest simultaneously. Additionally, contestants may enter a single contest more than once, with the exclusion of the Leslie Garrett Award for Literary Fiction. A separate entry fee is required for each submission.
- All submissions must be emailed before midnight Eastern time on June 15, 2014. No printed copies will be accepted this year. Electronic versions only.Send a separate email for each entry to kwgcontests@gmail.com, with the subject line formatted as follows:Entry Title, Contest Name (as it appears below)The email body should also indicate which contest you are entering and should include the following:Author name
Mailing address
Phone number
Payment method and reference (check number or PayPal confirmation number).
Word count, poem count, or estimated length as dictated by category-specific guidelines below.We're accepting only electronic submissions in order to process entries in a more efficient and standardized way. Your local library or copy shop should be able to help you convert your printed document to an electronic format for emailing.Entries must be submitted as email attachments in any reasonable electronic format. Likely candidates include rtf, plain text, pdf, and various flavors of Word or OpenOffice. The title of your attachment should match the title of your submission. You should receive an automated email confirmation that we've received your entry. Please send a followup inquiry if you don't. - Do not put name or other identifying information on the entries themselves. Failure to follow this rule will result in rejection of your entry and forfeiture of your entry fee.
- Do not submit previously published works.
- See below for descriptions of individual contests, deadlines, and any specific rules for a particular contest.
- Except for the KWG Award for Fiction, in honor of Leslie Garrett, and the KWG Young Writers' Prizes in Poetry and Fiction, contests charge a $20 entry fee for nonmembers and $10 for Guild members.The KWG Young Writers' prizes charge a reduced fee of $5 per entry.Guild membership is $30 per year; $15 for students. To join, make checks payable to KWG or pay by credit card at our website,www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.
- Note: You can pay entry fees in two ways: either by personal check mailed to the address below or on our website.If you opt to pay by check, include the title of your entry in the memo line and the check number in your entry email.Payments by check should be sent to:
(Name of Contest)
Awards Office
The Knoxville Writers' Guild
P.O. Box 10326
Knoxville, TN 37939
- Prizes: First Prize - $100, Second Prize - $50, Third Prize - $25.
- KWG reserves the right to award only one prize if there are insufficient entries in a given category.
- No one person may win multiple prizes in a single category.
- KWG reserves publishing rights and electronic rights for one year from the date winners are announced. Afterwards, all rights revert to the author.
Additional Information
- Winners and runners-up will be announced in a timely manner here on the KWG website.
- A collection of winning contest entries will be published later in the year.