Posted on 13 August 2009
Willow Springs invites submissions for The Willow Springs Fiction Prize, $2,000 plus publication in Willow Springs.
Submission deadline: March 1, 2010
Contest Submission Guidelines
* Include a $15.00 entry fee. Submissions without an entry fee will not be judged.
* Send only one story per submission.
* Use a check or money order only; cash will not be accepted. Please make the checks and money orders payable to Willow Springs.
* Submissions should be typed. Handwritten submissions will not be judged and the entry fee will not be refunded.
* Submissions must be 7,000 words or fewer.
Posted on 31 July 2009
Who Can Enter
The contest is open to all writers. You do not have to be a member of Writers-Editors Network. However, members do save up to 50% on entry fees. (Membership information)
Deadline
Entries must be postmarked no later than March 15, 2010.
Divisions & Categories
Nonfiction Division: (A) Previously Published Article/Essay/Column/Nonfiction Book Chapter — (B) Unpublished or self-published Article/Essay/Column/Nonfiction Book Chapter
Fiction Division: (C) Unpublished or self-published Short Story —
(D) Unpublished or self-published Novel Chapter
Children’s Literature Division: (E) Unpublished or self-published Short Story/Nonfiction Article/Book Chapter/Poem (judged together as one category)
Poetry Division: (F) Unpublished or self-published Free Verse/Traditional (judged together as one category)
Posted on 15 July 2009
This contest is open to all, and the winning story will be published in a future issue of the magazine (as well as here, the new online home of Esquire fiction).
We encourage you to enter, but you have to follow the rules. The first and most important rule — besides, of course, that the story has to be original — is that the story must be based on one of three titles that we have provided.
The titles are:
1. “Twenty-Ten”
2. “An Insurrection”
3. “Never, Ever Bring This Up Again”
A date, a thing, and a statement. No exceptions. Make of them what you will, do with them something great. But no taking an old story and slapping one of our new titles on it. We’ll know, and we won’t be happy.
