The Starving Writer Contest Guidelines
We are excited to announce the Starving Writer quarterly contest is now accepting entries. We want your work. We want to give all writers the opportunity to win some money, get published and receive constructive feedback on their work. So submit away. Our judges are hungry for manuscripts to read.
Entry Fee - $20. includes one year subscription to the Starving Writer Review and critique of entry.
Categories - Adult fiction, non-fiction, juvenile fiction.
Prizes - First $100 Publication to first place winner in each category. Certificate to all winners.
Word count: 3000 maximum.
Please submit two copies of manuscript, double-spaced, word count in upper right corner.
Include cover letter with name, address, phone number, e-mail, manuscript title, word count, and category.
Send SASE for return of critique and list of winners.
Judging is double-blind with third judge as a tie breaker.
Deadline November 20, 2010
Make Checks Payable to: The Starving Writer
Send Entries to:
The Starving Writer
4230 SE King Rd #99
Milwaukie, OR 97222
We adhere to the Contest Code of Ethics.
Contest Winners
Quarter 2 2010 Deadline May 15th
Six Shades of Gray by Jaime Liddick
Walk On by Helen Peppe
Late to Poetry’s Table by Sharon Wood Wortman
Olympic Champion Charlie Green’s Long Run to Faith by Robert B. Robeson
Welcome to Canada by John Graham – Pole
The Burp Bowl by Deborah “Bam” Schildkraut
Transformed! From the Inside Out by Jane Goldenberg
Quarter 4 2009 Deadline Nov 14th
Scrotum Comfort by Ross M Hall
Dairy of a Sex Addict by Kristen Burke
The Wicker Chair by Dan Eskeldson
Traveling Companions By Sandy McPherson Carrubba
Traveling Light by Christy Wise
Quarter 3 2009
Littlebird's Deam by Paul Cummins
The Bridge by Jim Wisneski
De Profundis by Phil Richardson
The Wooden Gauntlet by Joseph Shaffer
Sin of Omission by Heather Haldeman
Not knowing a Man by Christy Wise
Quarter 2 2009
Gloria and Bean by Kathrine L Clark
Little Girl Lost by Tom Doppke