7th Annual ACCENTI Writing Contest

Contest Rules 

Topic
The topic is open. Any type of entry that meets the submission criteria below is eligible. Multiple entries welcome.
 Submission Criteria
• The contest is open to prose works.
• Entries can be fiction, non-fiction or creative non-fiction.
• Entries must be previously unpublished and not under consideration by any other publication.
• Entries must be original and not a translation of a previously published work.
• Maximum length: 2000 words.
• IMPORTANT: No poetry, plays, reviews, and scholarly essays. No footnotes and endnotes. No pseudonyms.

• Submissions must be in Word or txt format.
• No email or fax submissions.
Language
• Submissions must be in English.
• Submissions can be an English translation of the author’s unpublished original work in another language.
Participants
The contest is open to all writers, established and emerging, worldwide.
Entry Fee
$20.00 per entry, non-refundable.
Deadline
Postmarked on or before February 7, 2012.
Judging
Blind judging.
Announcement of Results
Winners will be contacted in Spring 2012, and their names will subsequently be posted on Accenti Online.
Prizes
• Top prize: $1000.00 (CDN) and publication in Accenti.
• Second Prize: $250.00 (CDN) and publication in Accenti.
• Third Prize: $100.00 (CDN) and publication in Accenti.

How to Submit
Each submission must be accompanied by a duly completed entry form and entry fee.
Click HERE to submit online.

Click HERE to submit by mail.
Questions
If you have any questions, please write to: accenti@accenti.ca