CWW OPENS 2016 WISCONSIN WRITERS
CONTESTS
The Council for Wisconsin Writers
announces that its awards contests are open for entries for work published in
2016.
From: Council for Wisconsin
Writers www.wiswriters.org
Release Date: now
The Council for Wisconsin Writers
opens its Wisconsin Writers Awards contests on Nov. 1. Work published by
Wisconsin writers in 2016 is eligible in seven categories, including book-length
fiction, nonfiction and poetry; short fiction and nonfiction;
a set of five poems two of which must have been published in the
contest year, and children’s literature.
First-place winners receive $500 and
a one-week writer's residency at Shake Rag
Alley in Mineral Point WI. Honorable mention recipients receive
$50 and a one-week writer's residency at the Painted
Forest Study Center in Valton WI.
Entries for this year’s Wisconsin
Writers Awards must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2017. Authors who
enter must be current Wisconsin residents.
The entry fee is $25. Membership in
CWW is not required, but members are entitled to one free entry. Out-of-state
judges will make the selections. Awards will be presented at a banquet in May
2017. The Major Achievement Award for 2016 will also be presented at the May
banquet. That award, which includes a prize of $1,000, recognizes a Wisconsin
writer for work of extraordinary literary merit.
CWW also sponsors an Essay
Award for Young Writers (1,500 word maximum) for Wisconsin high school
students; there is no entry fee. The award is $250 for the winning student.
Members of the board will judge. Entries for the student essay contest must
be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2017.
Specific guidelines, entry forms,
and important additional information for each award category are available in
the 2016 Entry Forms section of the website, wiswriters.org/2016-contest-entry-forms.
CWW is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of published Wisconsin writers and
encouraging an appreciation of Wisconsin writing.
For more information about the Council for Wisconsin Writers and
its Awards program,
please go to www.wiswriters.org.
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