2011-2012 Submission Guidelines
Charlotte Writers' Club's MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD!
Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked by May 15, 2012
Entry fee: $15 (members), $20 (non-members), payable to CWC and mailed with manuscript.
First Prize Award: Apple iPad
Second Prize Award: $200.00
Third Prize Award: $100.00
Contest Judge: Valerie Nieman is the author of a recent novel, Blood Clay, as well as two earlier novels, a collection of short stories, Fidelities, and a poetry collection, Wake Wake Wake. Her fiction is upcoming in StorySouth and a new Main Street Rag anthology, and has appeared previously in the Kenyon Review, West Branch, and many other journals. Her poetry has appeared widely, in Poetry, the North Carolina Literary Review, Blackbird, and many other journals as well as several anthologies. She has received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as grants of support for writing in North Carolina, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and prizes including two Elizabeth Simpson Smith awards in fiction and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. She was the winner of the inaugural Byron Herbert Reece Poetry Prize. Nieman graduated from West Virginia University and holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. A longtime newspaper reporter and editor, she now teaches writing at North Carolina A&T State University and serves as poetry editor of Prime Number magazine.
Send 3 copies of an original, unpublished story between 1500-4000 words (one per author) to:
Elizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Charlotte Writers' Club
P.O. Box 220954
Charlotte, NC 28222
***Name must not appear on story.***
Cover page should include: title and word count, plus name, address, phone number and e-mail of author.
All manuscripts will be destroyed.
Send SASE for list of winners only.
For email submissions, please follow the instructions below.
- Manuscript and eligibility requirements apply as above.
- Submission(s) may be emailed to contests@charlottewritersclub.org.
- Entry fees must be paid through PayPal and received at the same time as each submission. If submissions are submitted without entry fees, the submission will not be judged.
- Please read the entry fees options below carefully and choose the correct option. The first two options include new membership dues for an individual. (If you are an existing member, you do not have to pay the membership fee at this time.)
Please direct email inquiries and questions to
contests@charlottewritersclub.org.
