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MAIL ENTRIES TO:
Rehoboth Beach Writer's Guild
Young Writers Contest
PO Box 1326
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
For more information about this contest please feel free to contact us.
Reading and reception will be held in November for all participants, their parents, and teachers.
Spring and Summer Free Writes!
All 2008 Free Writes! will be held at the Lewes Library.
Wednesday afternoons: May 7 - June 11
Friday mornings: June 20 - August 15
NO RSVP or registration necessary. Come when you can as often as you can! Bring pens/pencils and paper.
Contest for Young Writers Ages 10 to 18
Deadline:Contest Rules:August 15, 2008
Entry Fee:
Prizes:
Categories:
- Each story or essay must be 1,500 words or less. Up to 3 poems per entry or 150 lines.
- Type the entry title on a separate cover sheet with your name, address, age you will be on June 15, 2007, name of school, home phone number and email address. Indicate whether the entry is FICTION or CREATIVE NONFICTION or POETRY and the number of words or lines.
- Age category will be determined by age of author on June 15, 2008.
- There is no entry fee for this contest. Enter as often as you wish, but mail each entry separately.
- All entries must be typed in 12-point font. They must be original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere until the winners are announced.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. All entries must be postmarked by August 15, 2008.
- Winners will be notified by September 30, 2008. If you have not been contacted by this date, you may assume that your entry is not a finalist.
- First-place winners in each category will be published in the November issue of Delaware Beach Life. Other submissions may be published in local newspapers.
- Winners' names and story titles will appear on our website (www.rehobothbeachwritersguild.com) by September 30, 2008.
MAIL ENTRIES TO:
Rehoboth Beach Writer's Guild
Young Writers Contest
PO Box 1326
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
For more information about this contest please feel free to contact us.
Reading and reception will be held in November for all participants, their parents, and teachers.
Judges for the Young Writers Contest
Fiction, age 10-13
Bonnie Neubauer is the inventor of Story SpinnerTM, a round writer's wheel that generates millions of creative writing exercises, and the author of The Write-Brain Workbook, 366 exercises designed to get you writing and keep you writing (Writer's Digest Books, December 2005). She is known for her high-energy workshops that are chock-full of inventive game-like creative writing exercises that take writers and aspiring writers out of their expectations, judgments, and blocks and get them writing.
Fiction, age 14-18
Carolyn Parkhurst is the author of Lost and Found (2006) as well as The Dogs of Babel, which was heralded by Anna Quindlen as a Book of the Month Club and Today show book club pick, chronicled in an extensive Boston Globe article on the making of a bestseller, and endorsed by readers who sent it onto the New York Times bestseller list. Carolyn holds an MFA in fiction from American University. She has published fiction in the North American Review, Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, and the Crescent Review. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children. (www.carolynparkhurst.com)
Poetry, age 10-13
Anne Agnes Colwell a poet and fiction writer, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, and an online chapbook of her poems appears in The Alsop Review. Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and will be published by Word Press in spring 2010. Her most recent collection, Father's Occupation, Mother's Maiden Name won the 2007 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. Her critical book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. She lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband James Keegan and son, Thomas.
Poetry, age 14-18
James Harms is the author of five collections of poetry all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. These include Modern Ocean, The Joy Addict, Quarters, Freeways and Aquaducts, and After West, published in 2008. Among the awards Jim has received for his work are: the PEN/Revson Fellowship for his second book, The Joy Addict, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, two Pushcart Prizes, Fellowships in Creative Writing from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. His poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He currently directs the graduate writing program at West Virginia University, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Creative Nonfiction, age 10-13
Christopher Yasiejko is the arts reporter at The News Journal in Wilmington. He worked for two years as an editor and designer at The New York Times and covered the 1999 season of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for the York (Pa.) Daily Record. Raised in Delaware, he lives near Philadelphia's Italian Market.
Creative Nonfiction, age 14-18
Victor Greto is a feature reporter for The News Journal. A journalist for 15 years, he has covered everything from council meetings to presidential races, has written personal columns, extended profiles and pieces about social and cultural trends. He has won several awards for his work at the Colorado Springs Gazette, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, and The News Journal.
Bonnie Neubauer is the inventor of Story SpinnerTM, a round writer's wheel that generates millions of creative writing exercises, and the author of The Write-Brain Workbook, 366 exercises designed to get you writing and keep you writing (Writer's Digest Books, December 2005). She is known for her high-energy workshops that are chock-full of inventive game-like creative writing exercises that take writers and aspiring writers out of their expectations, judgments, and blocks and get them writing.
Fiction, age 14-18
Carolyn Parkhurst is the author of Lost and Found (2006) as well as The Dogs of Babel, which was heralded by Anna Quindlen as a Book of the Month Club and Today show book club pick, chronicled in an extensive Boston Globe article on the making of a bestseller, and endorsed by readers who sent it onto the New York Times bestseller list. Carolyn holds an MFA in fiction from American University. She has published fiction in the North American Review, Minnesota Review, Hawaii Review, and the Crescent Review. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children. (www.carolynparkhurst.com)
Poetry, age 10-13
Anne Agnes Colwell a poet and fiction writer, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, and an online chapbook of her poems appears in The Alsop Review. Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and will be published by Word Press in spring 2010. Her most recent collection, Father's Occupation, Mother's Maiden Name won the 2007 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. Her critical book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. She lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband James Keegan and son, Thomas.
Poetry, age 14-18
James Harms is the author of five collections of poetry all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. These include Modern Ocean, The Joy Addict, Quarters, Freeways and Aquaducts, and After West, published in 2008. Among the awards Jim has received for his work are: the PEN/Revson Fellowship for his second book, The Joy Addict, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, two Pushcart Prizes, Fellowships in Creative Writing from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. His poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He currently directs the graduate writing program at West Virginia University, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Creative Nonfiction, age 10-13
Christopher Yasiejko is the arts reporter at The News Journal in Wilmington. He worked for two years as an editor and designer at The New York Times and covered the 1999 season of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for the York (Pa.) Daily Record. Raised in Delaware, he lives near Philadelphia's Italian Market.
Creative Nonfiction, age 14-18
Victor Greto is a feature reporter for The News Journal. A journalist for 15 years, he has covered everything from council meetings to presidential races, has written personal columns, extended profiles and pieces about social and cultural trends. He has won several awards for his work at the Colorado Springs Gazette, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, and The News Journal.