Delaware Beach Life and Rehoboth Beach Writer’s Guild. 2010
Writing Contest Guidelines
Theme
We are looking for previously unpublished work that centers around a coastal theme (this need not be the Delaware coast). Writers may submit up to three poems; prose should be no longer than 2000 words).
Judges
- Fiction: Carolyn Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel; The Nobodies Album)
- Nonfiction: Logan Ward (See You in a Hundred Years)
- Poetry: Devon Miller Duggan (Pinning the Bird to the Wall
Click here for for more information about these authors.
Guidelines:
- Include entry title on a separate cover sheet with your name, address, home phone number and email. Indicate whether this is FICTION or NONFICTION or POETRY. Include word count for prose entries.
- Submit TWO copies of material (the writer’s name should not appear on the entered manuscript).
- A $10 dollar reading fee must accompany each entry. Include SASE (For contest results). Checks can be made to RBWG (Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild)
- All entries must be typed in 12-point Times Roman or similar font in English. They must be original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere until the winners are announced. No email entries.
- Submit entry via regular mail on single-sided 8-1/2 x 11 white paper. Entries will not be returned.
Winners will be notified by December 1, 2010. If you have not been contacted by this date, you may assume that your entry is not a finalist.
Deadline for entries: Oct. 15, 2010 postmark; Mail to
Writers at the Beach Contest
PO Box 1326,
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Winners: Announcement of the winner will appear on the “Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild” website on Jan 2, 2011. The winner will have his/her entry published in the March edition of Delaware Beach Life and be invited to a March 2010 reading/reception in Rehoboth Beach (includes one night’s hotel accommodation)
All monies raised from registration fees are used pay for RBWG operating expenses and programs, which are free and open (with the exception of classes) to everyone. For more information go to www. rehobothbeachwritersguild.com