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Guidelines

$500 Poetry Prize
$500 Short Fiction Prize

Poetry: Typed, single-spaced. Each entry must contain 5 poems. Award is presented for best 5-poem set. Maximum of 100 lines per poem. Any form, style or theme. (No verse for children; no light verse.) Send two copies of each poem.

Short Fiction: Typed, double-spaced. Maximum word length 4,000 words per story. Word count must appear at top of first page. Any theme or genre. (No fiction for children or young adults.) Send two copies each short story.

Entry Fee: $20 for one entry; $20 entry fee each additional submission. Entry fees for submissions sent from outside the US must be in US funds -- US money order, US bank draft or cashier's check. Make payable to Writers' Group of the Triad.

Postmark Deadline: April 30, 2008; Winners announced: by October 1, 2008.

All work must be original and previously unpublished. Send cover sheet with name, address, phone number (fax, e-mail if available), title of poems or story, and one paragraph bio. No names on poems or short stories. Multiple submissions accepted (may submit both poetry & short fiction, or more than one group of 5 poems, or more than one short story).

$20 entry fee each submission. Simultaneous submission OK provided you notify us if work is accepted elsewhere. Manuscripts will NOT be returned. They will be recycled.

Members of the Writers' Group of the Triad (WGOT) and employees of sponsors are not eligible for this competition.

Final Judges:

• Poetry – Kathryn Stripling Byer, NC State Poet Laureate
• Short Fiction – Shannon Ravenel, co-founder of Algonquin Books

Send Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope for list of winners or additional copies of guidelines. Email contact: WGOT2008@triad.rr.com

Send entry to:

The Writers' Group of the Triad
4642 West Market Street, PMB 331
Greensboro, NC 27407-1285