Children's picture book and cover art contests

DRAGONFLY PUBLISHING WRITER’S AND ILLUSTRATOR’S CONTEST
There is a $10.00 entry fee for each contest. Artists may enter both contests if they desire.

CATEGORY 1: Children's Picture Book Contest
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK CONTEST PRIZES:
1st Place: $100.00 (U.S.) plus a trophy and a possible book contract
2nd Place: $50.00 (U.S.)
3rd Place: $30.00 (U.S.)

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK CONTEST RULES:
Children's Picture Book Contest submissions shall consist of one children's picture book manuscript formatted in storyboard layout for 20-22 illustrated pages.
See website for details: http://www.dragonflypubs.com/dfp/contest.html

CATEGORY 2:
Children's Cover Art Contest
CHILDREN'S COVER ART CONTEST PRIZES:
1st Place: $100.00 (U.S.) plus a trophy and a possible book contract
2nd Place: $50.00 (U.S.)
3rd Place: $30.00 (U.S.)

CHILDREN'S COVER ART CONTEST RULES:
Children's Cover Art Contest submissions shall consist of one (1) original 8x10 full-color front cover illustration and one (1) original 8x10 full-color back cover illustration for children's picture book: See website for details: http://www.dragonflypubs.com/dfp/contest.html

A pseudo-serious writing contest at our upcoming conference

SUBMIT
Your best (or worst?)
Pseudo-Serious Attempts at Writing
to our first-ever DFW Writers Conference Literary Contest

Categories:
Best limerick (limit: two)
Best haiku (limit: three)
Best stand-alone metaphor (max: 25 words)
Best lightning flash fiction piece (75 word limit)
Best paragraph beginning, "It was a dark and stormy night." (125 word limit, including the required first sentence.)
Most outrageous creative non-fiction paragraph (125 word limit)

Rules:
You must be registered for the conference to enter. Register
You may only enter categories for which you are not a judge.
You must serve as a judge for at least one other category.
You must submit your work by Wednesday, Feb. 6, midnight by emailing pseudo_serious_but_short@yahoo.com . In subject line: place category and your name. In body of email, place your entry.

Outcomes:
Do not expect cash, publication, or other traditional prizes.
Winners wil be announced at the conference, and first-place winners will get to read their entries to the audience.

Non-traditional prizes will be awarded.
The intended outcomes are FUN and CREATIVE CAMARADERIE.

Why not register for the conference (if you haven’t already)
and enter your pseudo-serious work(s) today!

This year's Poetry and Short Story Competition winners

After last Saturday's group booksigning at Barnes and Noble in North Richland Hills, this year's Poetry and Short Story contest winners read their work to an audience. Thanks to Georgette Radford, the community relations manager at the store, for hosting us for a great afternoon.

Poetry:

Honorable Mention: Joan McCord
Third Place: Lee Elsessor
Second Place: Lee Elsessor
First Place: Ginnie Siena Bivona

Short Story:

Third Place: Lydia Ondrusek
Second Place: Marty Tidwell
First Place: Anne Gordon Perry

Congratulations to this year's winners! The contest will be back in 2008.

This year's contest judges

The entries are on the way to the judges.

Judging the short story competition this year is the novelist Julianne Ardian Lee. She is the author of several romance novels with a sci-fi twist, including Sword of the White Rose, Son of the Sword, Knight Tenebrae and Knight's Blood.

On the poetry side, Dr. Corey Marks of the University of North Texas will judge. His first book, Renunciation, was a National Poetry Series Open Competition winner published by University of Illinois Press. His poems appear in a number of journals including Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, The Paris Review, Raritan and TriQuarterly.

We're fortunate to have such distinguished judges for this year's contest. Good luck to the contestants!

Last chance to enter! Contest deadline is Aug. 29

Next Wednesday, Aug. 29, will be the deadline to receive entries for this year's Poetry and Short Story competition, whether you turn them in to us at the regular meeting or mail them in time to be in the P.O. box by that date.

Don't forget to turn your entries in! Requirements are in this document.

Good luck!

Time to enter our annual Poetry & Short Story Competition

It's back by popular demand! Our Poetry & Short Story Competition is judged by outside experts. It's open both to the public and to Workshop members. Deadline for submission is Aug. 29 -- that's when it has to be in our mailbox. The winners will be announced in October, and we'll have a public reading of the winners at the North Richland Hills Barnes and Noble, as we have in previous years.

There's a $15 entry fee for the short story competition, with a one-story limit. For the poetry side of the contest, it's $5 per poem, up to a limit of three poems. First place prize in each contest is $100.

For more details such as submission requirements and mailing address, please download this Word document.

Logo contest -- $200 prize

The Workshop is looking for a new logo! So we're holding a contest, open to the public, with a prize of $200 for the winner.

We're looking for something contemporary and sophisticiated but dignified. The design must contain the phrase "DFW Writers' Workshop."

The deadline for design submissions is July 16, 2007. More detailed specifications and submission instructions are in this PDF.

Good luck!

Novella contest

Writers Post Journal is celebrating its third anniversary by sponsoring a novella contest, in conjunction with Lachesis Publishing (http://www.lachesispublishing.com). Novellas should be between 30,000 and 40,000 words. There are three categories: Romantic Fantasy, Futuristic Romance and Paranormal Romance. Romance must be an element, but does not have to be the major element, of the plot. The first place and second place winners in each category will be published in trade paperback and e-book by Lachesis Publishing. Third place winners will be featured in a year-long serial in the Writers Post Journal. The cost of the contest is $10 USD per entry. All entries must be received by May 15, 2006. For more information visit http://tinyurl.com/yv6bep or http://www.lbfbooks.com/index.php?main_page=infopages&pages_id=6

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition

The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition is now accepting entries. Stories must be original, unpublished,typed and double-spaced, and 3,000 words or less. Entries from non-U.S. writers are welcome. The contest is open only to those whose fiction hasn't appeared in a nationally distributed publication with a circulation of 5,000 or more. Each story should be accompanied by a cover sheet with your name, complete address, e-mail address, phone number, and title of the piece. The entry fee is $10 for each story postmarked by May 1, 2007, and $15 for each story postmarked between May 1 and May 15. Entries postmarked after May 15 will not be accepted. Prizes include $1,000 cash to the first-place winner, $500 apiece to the second-and third-place winners, and honorable mentions to other promising writers. All manuscripts and fees should be sent to the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, P.O. Box 993, Key West, FL 33041. Winners will be announced in late July in Key West, and all entrants will receive a letter from Lorian (either via snail mail or e-mail) and a list of winners by October 1. For more information, go to http://www.shortstorycompetition.com.