You can compete in both categories:
Fiction and Memoir/Personal Essay.
(No poetry please. Our judges are not professional poets.)

No submissions over 2000 words.

There will be winners in both categories for all prize levels!

First Prizes -- Winners' Choice
$100 or a private coaching session on the phone with Emily Hanlon, valued at $150. Emily will read up to 50 double-spaced pages. You can send fewer pages but not more.

Second Prize -- Winners' Choice:
$50 or Emily's workbook and tapes, The Art of Fiction Writing, selling for $50 or a sterling silver turtle pendant and chain selling for $65.

Third Prize -- Winner's Choice
$25 or Emily's workbook and tapes, The Art of Fiction Writing, selling for $50 or a sterling silver turtle pendant selling for $50.

Honorable Mention
A copy of the Audio Seminar: Fiction Writing, The Passionate Journey, selling for $14.95.

I intend to publish all winners in an E-book, but this is not a promise. If you are interested in helping to put together such an E-book, please let me know.

Everyone who enters receives a free copy of Emily's E-book: Finding Your Writer's Voice, selling for $6.95.

Entry Deadline: Wednesday, December 21, 2005. The Winter Solstice.
Entry fee of $15 per submission

Preparing Your Entry:
Please read all the guidelines carefully or your entry may be disqualified.

Entries must be submitted online or mailed in. (Although entry fees can be made by check or credit card. Directions below.)

Please copy and paste your submission into the body of the e-mail. Do not send as an attachment.
You will be sent further submission details as soon as we receive your entry fee(s).

Here are some guidelines:

• Please check your manuscript for spelling and other errors. I recognize that you are a creative writer and may have trouble picking up errors in your own work. If you are like me and blind to typos and dropped words, have someone with a good eye for such matters read over your submission.
  
  
• Please check that you have indented paragraphs. These are the most tedious to reformat.
  
  
• All manuscripts must have the category and word count indicated along with your name, address, phone number, e-mail and a word count. Do not include the title, your name, e-mail and mailing address in your word count. If you are entering more than one manuscript, do this for each entry.
  
  
• If you are mailing in your entry(s) by snail mail, send two copies. Do not put your name, etc. on any pages of the entry. Put all your personal information on a separate page. You will receive the snail mail address as soon as you submit your fee.
  
  
• Entries exceeding the 2000 word limit by more than 25 words will be disqualified.
  
  
• Your entry must be original and in English.
  
  
• You may submit as many entries as you like. There is a $15 fee for each story. There are no refunds once you submit your entry fee(s).

The Fiction Writer's Journey retains only one-time publication rights to the First Prize, Second Prize, Third Prize, and Honorable Mention Winners in each category which extends to a possible e-book publication. The e-book will be free and you can pass it along to others. All other rights revert to you.

Every entry will be read by the judges. Judges' decisions are final.
Judges reserve the right to re-categorize entries.
Entries must be received by Wednesday, December 21, 2005. That is the Winter Solstice.
Manuscripts will not be returned.

Send questions only to : questions@thefictionwritersjourney.com

Once you have submitted your entry fee, you will be given directions for submitting your entry as well as your welcome gift: Finding Your Writer's Voice.

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You can pay by check. Send $15 per story, to:
The Fiction Writer's Journey
Winter Solstice Contest
PO Box 536
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

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