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The Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Fiction Award
The Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award

July 1, 2007 Postmark Deadline

Submission Guidelines
1. The contest is open to all writers with the exception of first place winners from the previous year. First place winners may not enter in the same category in the year immediately following their awards.
2. All submissions must be original and unpublished. All entries must be typed, double-spaced (except poetry), on one side of white 8 1/2 X 11 paper. No simultaneous submissions. Secure pages with staples. No paper clips. It is a good practice to indicate the title (or abbreviated form of title) and page number in the upper or lower right hand corner of each page.
3. Short fiction entries should not exceed 5,000 words in length.
4. Poetry should not exceed forty lines.
5. Each story or poem submitted will be considered as a separate entry.
6. Submit two copies of entry, plus one separate cover sheet with the title of the short story or poem, author’s name, address, e-mail, and phone number. The author’s name MUST NOT appear anywhere except the cover sheet.
7. An entry fee must accompany each entry: $10 TWA members/ $15 non-members per short story or individual poem. Entries that do not meet these requirements will be disqualified, and the entry fee will NOT be refunded. We regret that we cannot acknowledge
the receipt of entries without a self-addressed, stamped postcard sent with entry, nor can we return manuscripts. However, we will be happy to send results of the competition, which will be determined in mid-September, to those who include a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) with submission.

All entries must be postmarked no later than July 1, 2007

Mail to:
TWA Literary Competition
P.O. Box 120396
Nashville, TN 37212
Questions? Email : inquiries@tn-writers.org

First Prize $500
Second Prize $250
Third Prize $100
in each category. The first, second, and third prizewinner in each category will be selected from a short list of finalists. Honorable mentions will be named at judges’ discretion. Cash awards and certificates will be presented at a special session at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville in October 2007.

Judges
Judges are being confirmed and will be announced as soon as possible. Past judges have included Connie May Fowler, Lee Smith, Michael McFee, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Silas House, Sharyn McCrumb, Lynn York, Ron Rash, Beth Ann Fennelly and others.