Contest Information
Announcing the 2010 Chautauqua Nonfiction Contest
Send your submission between August 1 and November 1, 2010.
Prize: $1,000 and publication in Chautauqua, the literary journal of the Chautauqua Institution. Winner and finalists receive a copy of the journal. All manuscripts considered for publication.
Essays should address the theme of nature and the natural world.
Submit nonfiction essays up to 7,000 words. Please include a word count at the top of the manuscript. Please include a cover sheet with your name, contact information (mailing address, phone number and email address), and title of the manuscript.
The manuscript should ONLY include the title. Please do not include your name.
Include a SASE for contest results.
Entry fee: $20
Mail entries to: Jill Gerard/ University of North Carolina Wilmington/ Chautauqua: Contest Entry/ Dept. of Creative Writing/ 601 S. College Rd./ Wilmington, NC/ 28403
Judge: Kirsten Holmstedt
Kirsten A. Holmstedt grew up in Mystic, Connecticut. She graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2006 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Nonfiction Writing. Over the past twenty years, Ms. Holmstedt has written for newspapers, business, academia, and magazines. She has won awards for her writing at the regional and national levels. She is the author of Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq and When the Girls Come Marching Home.
