Contests
New for 2010: Bananagrams® Writing Contest - $500 in Prizes for Poetry and Prose
Open from May 1-September 1, 2010
Complete Contest Guidelines:
Format: Writers must use all seven words from the 21-letter Bananagrams® grid displayed on this site, below. Writers may use words more than once. Words can be changed from singular to plural when necessary, but writers may not change words to a different tense or form (for example, "book" could be changed to "books," but not to "booking" or "bookie.") Prefixes are allowed (for example, "re-book.")
Deadline: Opens May 1, 2010, at midnight; Closes September 1, 2010, at 11:59 p.m.
Word Count: Stories up to 1,400 words; poems up to 21 lines
Entry fee: $7 per story, 3 for $20
Entries will be accepted by email only; payment by PayPal. Writers are asked to pay with PayPal first, then submit their work online.
Send all contest entries to newportreviewcontest@gmail.com. Manuscripts should be sent in Word or Rich Text Format.
- Please underline or bold-face the contest words in your manuscript.
- Please format manuscripts so that the first page is a cover sheet with the writer's name and complete contact information, including email and phone, but do not include the writer's name on the text itself.
- Writers may submit a total of six entries.
- The contest is open to all writers ages 13 and above, except writers who have close personal affiliations with Newport Review, its editorial staff, contest judges or advisory board. Past contest winners and those who have been published in past issues of Newport Review are eligible to enter.
- Winners will be notified and posted on our blog and web site.
- Questions about contest rules (NOT entries) may be addressed to edit (at) newportreview.org.
Guest judges are poet John Landry and fiction writer Jincy Willett.
$500 in prizes, along with publication and Bananagrams® game sets, will be awarded.
Two First Prizes (Story and Poem): $200, Bananagrams®, and publication in Newport Review
Two Second Prizes (Story and Poem): $50, Bananagrams®, and publication in Newport Review
Honorable Mention (Stories and Poems): Bananagrams® and publication in Newport Review
Prize-winning poems and stories will be published in Newport Review. Other poems and stories may also be considered for publication. All entries may be used by Bananagrams® for promotional purposes.
Contest winners will be announced in November, 2010, on this site.
Your words are below. As we say in Bananagrams-land: SPLIT!
BANANAGRAMS CONTEST WORDS
