Wild Words, an open genre, open form prose competition. Open genre means that fiction in all forms (literary, horror, children’s, etc.) and non-fiction (memoir, essays, creative non-fiction, etc.) will compete head to head and word for word. Open form gives writers full license to experiment.

  • Send readers on a Wild ride
  • Back to nature in the Wild
  • Invent a character with Wild ideas
  • Be a “Wild and Crazy” writer
  • Minnesota Wild hockey team
  • Baby, it’s Wild out there

So send us your very best Wild Words by the November 30, 2010 deadline

Please…no poetry. We love poetry but it is still not prose.

JUDGING:
Three-tier blind judging

PRIZES:
• $750 first place

• $500 second place

• $250 third place

• Selected honourable mentions, plus first,
second and third prize winners, to be published
in the anthology Wild Words and receive $25
PLUS contributor’s copy

• All entries will receive feedback from
the first-tier judges!

FINAL JUDGE: To Be Announced

$20 entry fee through PayPal

Attach entries to email ‘cover letter’ to wildwords (at) wcdr.org
All entrants will be sent their feedback by email

THE RULES

• Maximum: 1200 words in English; entries must be original, unpublished and not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.

• Email entries as attachments to wildwords@wcdr.org

• Blind judging. Any name or other identifying mark on your entry will disqualify it. Include a cover email with your name, address, telephone number, and email address and entry title(s). Judges cannot enter the contest.

• All entries in manuscript format: 12 pt, Times New Roman, double-spaced, MSWord or RTF only.

• $20 Canadian entry fee ($25 for international entries) Online via Paypal (below); cheque or money order may be sent by surface mail. See www.wcdr.org for address; No entries by surface mail.

• Enter as many times as you wish; each entry requires the entry fee.

• First, Second and Third Prize and selected Honourable Mentions will be published in the Wild Words print anthology.

• Entries will NOT be returned.

• Deadline: November 30, 2010; winners announced March 2011

Click HERE to download a PDF version of the guidelines for WILD WORDS.

 $20.00 Canadian entry fee
 $25.00 International entry fee

Click here to see the entry from last year’s contest anthology launch.

 

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