WV Writers 2010 Annual Writing Contest
Entries must be postmarked between January 2 and March 15, 2010
Established in 1982
The state’s largest writing competition.
Open to West Virginia residents and members of WV Writers, Inc., adult or college-level.
New Mountain Voices Student Writing Contest (with different writing categories for grades 1-5, 6-8 and 9-12)
Over $105, 000.00 in prize money awarded since 1982.
Competition Categories
- Inspiration (up to 5,000 words, poetry or prose)
- Scripts (All lengths, stage plays, screenplays)
- Memorial Script Award
- Nonfiction (up to 5,000 words). Includes article, essay and memoir
- Children’s Books and Full-Length Books for youths to age 16. Submit 3 chapters or up to 5,000 words and a l-page synopsis.
- Humor (up to 5,000 words). Prose or poetry.
- Appalachian Writing (up to 5,000 words). Prose or poetry.
- Book Length Prose. Fiction or Non-Fiction. Submit up to 7,500 words and a 1-page synopsis.
- Long Poetry: Poetry 21 lines, maximum 4 pages in length; any form.
- Short Poetry: Poetry 20 lines or shorter in length; any form.
- Short Story: Fiction (up to 5,000 words).
- Emerging Writers: Poetry. Any poetry form, any length up to 4 pages.
- Emerging Writers: Prose (up to 5,000 words). Specify fiction or nonfiction
