The Hudson Valley Writers Guild is pleased to announce this year’s non-fiction contest. Submission categories will be memoir/personal essay and humor. There will be a $100 award in each category and winners will be invited to read their winning submissions at a special program in the fall of 2014.
All contestants must be residents of New York State. The entry fee is: $10 for HVWG members and $15 for non-members. Checks made payable to HVWG must accompany submissions. If $30 membership fee is paid with submission, please enclose a separate check. HVWG Board of Directors and their families and/or current or past students and family of judges are ineligible.
Entries must be postmarked between June 15 – August 15, 2014. Contact information must not appear anywhere on the submission. A cover letter must include: name, address, phone number, email, title, submission category, and word count (1200 word maximum).
All submissions must be typed, double-spaced, in 12pt Times New Roman or Cambria font. Send three hard copies by mail. No email submissions. Submissions must be previously unpublished. Please no pornography or erotica.
This year’s judges are Diane Cameron and Gene Damm (personal essay/memoir) and Anne Decker (humor).
Diane Cameron is a writer, writing teacher and creativity coach. She is a syndicated newspaper columnist and blogger. Most recently, she’s written Out of the Woods: A Woman’s Guide to Long-Term Recovery and Looking for Signs: Essays and Columns.
Humorist Anne Decker’s essays have appeared on public radio, in local newspapers and magazines. She has an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College.
Gene Damm is past president of the Friends of the Albany Public Library. He is the author of Guanyin and Other Poems as well as A Chinese Folk Tale and Other Stories.
All entrants will be notified of winners by email unless an SASE is provided. Results will be posted on our website: http://hvwg.org.
Contact Jan Tramontano at jantramontano@gmail.com for more information. Mail submissions and entry fee to: HVWG CONTEST c/o Jan Tramontano, 14 Brookwood Avenue, Albany, NY 12203.
