www.fgcu.edu/SIWC/contest.html

Three awards—one each in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Winners to be published and acknowledged in Mangrove Review, Spring 2010, FGCU’s literary magazine, and given free admission to the 2009 FGCU Sanibel Island Writers Conference.

Guidelines:

Poetry: Five poem limitation, one poem per page.

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: One story or essay, no more than 20 pages, one-sided, double-spaced. Please specify genre. All material should be original and previously unpublished, including personal blogs, Facebook, Twitter, or whatever thing is invented between now and the end of the contest. Include your name, poem/essay/story title, phone number and e-mail address on each page of your manuscript.

There is a $10 reading fee per submission. Please make the check out to Florida Gulf Coast University. Send printed copies of all manuscripts with an SASE for notification of decision to accompany the manuscript . Address the submission to:

Sanibel Island Writers Conference Contest
c/o Dr. Jim Brock
College of Arts and Sciences, Reed Hall
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd. S.
Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565

Deadline: September 1, 2009
Winners announced: October 1, 2009
If you have any questions that aren’t answered here, please feel free to send them to jbrock@fgcu.edu