FWA Tampa Writers Group

The Tampa Writers Alliance has opened their yearly writing contest to non-members. Printed below are SOME of the major guidelines. If you want to enter and want the complete guidelines, you can go to their website at http://www.tampawriters.org/ and download them in the very near future. If they are not there, then email me at orlando@EugeneOrlando.com and I will send them to you.

ENTRY CATEGORIES, “UNPUBLISHED” REQUIREMENT

Each contestant may enter any or all of the following categories:
FICTION
NON-FICTION
NOVEL
EMERGING WRITERS FICTION/NON-FICTION (TWA Members Only)
PLAY/SCRIPT WRITING
DR. ED HIRSHBERG AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FLORIDA WRITING
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
POETRY (Up to 72 lines may be entered per submission. See Rules ).
WORDSMITH COVER PHOTO

Entries must be UNPUBLISHED at the time of submission. Unpublished is defined as not having been commercially printed and circulated to more than fifty (50) persons. Editing a work you won with last year does not make it eligible to be re-entered again this year.
Please do not enter stories that you have ever entered in a TWA contest and won awards with. Please do not enter stories that have been published in Wordsmith or anywhere else for that matter. Follow the unpublished rule, use common sense and if there is a question, ask.

CONTESTANT ELIGIBILITY

The contest is open to adults (18 years and older). Membership in the Tampa Writers Alliance is not required to enter. Membership dues are $35 per year. (See Membership Application with Entry Form.)

DEADLINES

Entries will be accepted on and after June 1, 2008. All mailed entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2008. All other entries must be received by the Contest Coordinator no later than Wednesday, October 1, 2008. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS will be accepted.

ENTRY FEES:

Make checks payable to TAMPA WRITERS ALLIANCE. Contest fees for TWA members in good standing (dues paid as of the contest deadline) are $5 for each submission. Contest fees for non-members are $10 for each submission. There is no limit on the number of submissions a person may submit to any category.

Judges evaluations are available for purchase @ $15.00 per entry. See Judging Criteria.

Eugene Orlando
Regional Director/Hillsboroough County