Essay Contest
The KWG Essay Contest.
This year’s topic is music. Have you ever been a groupie? Is there a song you got pregnant to? Can one be a fan of the Who and Led Zeppelin at the same time? The essay can be memoir, critique, polemic, narrative, or history. It just has to be true. Preference is for submissions with narrow subject matter.
Fee: $10 for KWG members; $15 for nonmembers.
Specific Guidelines:
1. Entry consists of one typed, double-spaced nonfiction essay of no more than 2,000 words.
2. Multiple submissions O.K. See
General Guidelines
Deadline: February 28.
Send your entries to:
Essay Contest Awards
The Knoxville Writers' Guild
P.O. Box 10326
Knoxville TN 37939