Deadline Extended to 28 February 2011!
Summer Literary Seminars is announcing its annual Unified (Kenya, Montreal and Lithuania) Literary Contest, held this year in affiliation with The Walrus Magazine. We are thrilled this year to have Jayne Anne Phillips judging the fiction, and Matthew Zapruder judging the poetry.
Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work prominently featured online in Canada's premiere literary magazine, The Walrus, as well as published in print in The Black Warrior Review in the United States. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS 2011 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 12 - 25); Vilnius, Lithuania (August); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.
A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS 2011 programs. Read the full guidelines below.
One short story or novel excerpt, maximum twenty-five (25) double spaced pages per entry.
No more than three (3) poems per entry.
Only previously unpublished work can be submitted.
Include your complete contact information (address, telephone, email address) on the manuscript. Entries are not judged blind.
All entrants will be notified of the winners in the spring by email.
Cover letters are not required.
Previous First-Place winners may not re-enter.
Online entries are preferred, but hard copies are allowed (information below).
All submissions should be in 12pt font. Online submissions must be attached as a .doc or .pdf file
Deadline: Extended to February 28, 2011
TO ENTER
Entries can be submitted electronically, to: sls.contest@gmail.com
Please state whether you are submitting poetry or fiction in the subject line (e.g. SLS Fiction/Poetry Contest)
NOTE: Please do not send payments to the above email address – we request that if you pay online you use the Paypal button below.
Entries can be submitted by mail to:
Summer Literary Seminars International
Unified Literary Contest (Indicate fiction or poetry)
English Department
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 CanadaPAYMENT
A $15USD reading fee must accompany each entry. Multiple entries are permissible, as long as they are accompanied by separate reading fees.
Fees can paid paid online, via Paypal, or to the address above, by cheque.
NOTE: Online submissions and payments are much preferred, but if you would rather submit the hard copy and pay by cheque, please use the above address.
These are the complete contest guidelines.
Do not hesitate to contact SLS with any questions, by e-mail: sls@sumlitsem.org, or mike@sumlitsem.org – or by telephone: (514) 848-2424x4632.
We wish each and every one of you the best of luck!