74th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition

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74th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition

More than $30,000 in cash and prizes!

Win a trip to New York City !



74th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition

More than $30,000 in cash and prizes!

Win a trip to New York City !

Outskirts Press GRAND PRIZE: $2,500 cash and an all-expense paid trip to New York City to meet with editors and agents. Writer's Digest will fly you and a guest to The Big Apple, where you'll spend three days and two nights in the publishing capital of the world. While you're there, a Writer's Digest editor will escort you to meet and share your work with four editors or agents! Plus, you'll receive a free Diamond Publishing Package from Outskirts Press.

Late Entry Deadline: Wednesday, June 01, 2005..

For entrants paying with a credit card, we will accept manuscripts submitted online. Manuscripts in the script categories must be submitted via regular mail.

Compete and Win in 10 Categories!

* Inspirational Writing (Spiritual/Religious)
* Article: Memoirs/Personal Essay
* Article: Magazine Feature Article
* Short Story: Genre
* Short Story: Mainstream/Literary
* Poetry: Rhyming
* Poetry: Non-Rhyming
* Script: Stage Play (* submission by mail only)
* Script: Television/Movie Script (* submission by mail only)
* Children's Fiction

Entry Fee: Poems are $10 for the first entry; $5 for each additional poem submitted in the same online session. All other entries are $15 for the first manuscript; $10 for each additional manuscript submitted in the same online session.

Add $2 per manuscript to all entries postmarked after Monday, May 16, 2005. Entries postmarked after Wednesday, June 01, 2005, will not be accepted.


Prizes

Grand Prize: $2,500 cash and a trip to New York City to meet with editors and agents.

You'll spend three days and two nights in NYC and a Writer's Digest editor will escort you to meet with four editors or agents of your choice! (Includes airfare within the U.S., meals, transportation and related expenses.)

First Place: The First Place Winner in each category receives $1,000 cash, a manuscript critique and marketing advice from a Writer's Digest editor or advisory board member, commentary from an agent and $100 worth of Writer's Digest Books.

Second Place: The Second Place Winner in each category receives $500 cash, plus $100 worth of Writer's Digest Books.

Third Place: The Third Place Winner in each category receives $250 cash, plus $100 worth of Writer's Digest Books.

Fourth Place: The Fourth Place Winner in each category receives $100 cash, plus a copy of the 2006 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition, and a one-year (new or renewal) subscription to Writer's Digest.

Fifth Place: The Fifth-Place Winner in each category receives $50 cash, plus a copy of the 2006 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition, and a one-year subscription (new or renewal) to Writer's Digest.

Sixth through Tenth Place: The Sixth- through Tenth-Place winners in each category receive $25 cash, plus a copy of the 2006 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition.

11th through 100th Place: All other winners receive distinctive certificates honoring their accomplishment.

PLUS—Especially for Writer's Digest subscribers: Writer's Digest subscribers who enter the competition and provide a valid subscription number are eligible to win a special prize package featuring a one-year subscription renewal to Writer's Digest, the 2006 Writer's Market Deluxe Edition, $100 worth of free Writer's Digest Books and one year's worth of Writer's Digest special issues (15 in all, a $90 value!). You have five chances to win.

For entrants paying with a credit card, we will accept manuscripts submitted online. Manuscripts in the script categories must be submitted via regular mail.

Entry Deadline: Monday, May 16, 2005

Late Entry Deadline: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 (Add $2 to Entry Fee(s))

Outskirts Press 74th Annual Writer's Digest WRITING COMPETITION COLLECTION Sponsored by Outskirts Press

The Grand Prize manuscript, the First Place manuscript in each category, and the names of the top 100 winners in each category will be printed in a special competition collection, published by Outskirts Press. Use the coupon on the entry form to order your copy or purchase a copy online using a credit card. (Publication date: November 2005. You are not required to purchase the collection to enter the competition.)

Competition Rules

The Categories:

You may enter as many manuscripts as you like in each of the following categories:

* Memoirs/Personal Essay and Feature Article: 2,000 words maximum.
* Mainstream/Literary Short Story and Genre Short Story: 4,000 words maximum.
* Inspirational Writing: 2,500 words maximum.
* Children's Fiction: 2,000 words maximum.
* Rhyming Poem and Non-rhyming Poem: 32 lines maximum.
* Stage Play Script or Television/Movie Script: Send the first 15 pages in standard script format, plus a one-page synopsis. Complete scripts are not eligible.
* Plays, screenplays, and TV scripts—original or written for any series in production on or after January 1, 2005—are eligible; adaptations will not be accepted.

Remember, scripts can not be submitted online. If you would like to enter a script, use this printable form and send the script via regular mail.
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Preparing Your Entry:

1. If you are submitting your entry via regular mail, the entry must be accompanied by an Official Entry Form or facsimile, and the required entry fee (credit card information, check or money order made payable to Writer's Digest). If you are entering more than one manuscript, you may mail all entries in the same envelope and write one check for the total entry fee; however, each manuscript must have its category indicated in the upper left-hand corner.
2. Your entry must be original, in English, unpublished* and unproduced, not accepted by any other publisher or producer at the time of submission. Writer's Digest retains one-time publication rights to the Grand Prize and First Place winning entries in each category to be published in a Writer's Digest publication.

* Entries in the Magazine Feature Article category may be previously published.
3. If you are submitting your entry via regular mail, the entry must be typed on one side of 8-1/2 x 11 white paper (computer printout acceptable) or A4 paper. Scripts and poems may be either double-or single-spaced; all other manuscripts must be double-spaced. Online entries may lose double-spacing. This WILL NOT result in disqualification. Your name, address, phone number and competition category must appear in the upper left-hand corner of the first page—otherwise your entry is disqualified.
4. Be sure of your word count! Entries exceeding the word or page limits will be disqualified. Type the exact word count (counting every single word, except the title) at the top of the manuscript.
5. Mailed entries must be stapled (preferred) or paper-clipped.

Judging and Notification

1. Every entry will be read by the judges. Judges' decisions are final.
2. Judges reserve the right to re-categorize entries.
3. Entries must be postmarked by Wednesday, June 01, 2005. We cannot return submitted manuscripts; however, to receive notification of the receipt of your manuscript, send a self-addressed stamped postcard along with your entry.
4. The Grand Prize Winner and a guest must agree to travel (flying from the same city) during March, April or May 2006. If the Winner is from New York City area, Writer's Digest will provide the cash equivalent of the prevailing fare from Cincinnati to New York City. The editors or agants who meet with the Grand Prize Winner are under no obligation to read, buy or represent the Grand Prize Winner's work. For more information of the free Diamond Publishing package from Outskirts Press, visit [url=\"http://www.outskirtspress.com/diamondpublishing.php\"]http://www.outskirtspress.com/diamondpublishing.php[/url].
5. The following are not permitted to enter the contest: employees of F+W Publications, Inc., and their immediate family members; Writer's Digest contributing editors and correspondents as listed on our masthead; Writer's Online Workshops instructors; and Grand Prize Winners from the previous three years.
6. Top Award Winners will be notified by mail before October 21, 2005. The top 10 winners in each category will be listed in the November 2005 issue of Writer's Digest. All 1,001 winners will be listed in the 74th Annual Writer's Digest Competition Collection (published by Outskirts Press) and at www.writersdigest.com. Prizes/awards certificates will be mailed by November 7, 2005.



Questions?
For questions, contact Terri Boes at (513) 531-2690 ext. 1328 or email writing-competition@fwpubs.com.



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Entry Form

To submit your entry online, visit our secure online entry form.
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To enter via regular mail, use the printable form, and send it with your manuscript and entry fee to:

74th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition
4700 E. Galbraith Road
Cincinnati, OH 45236