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INNOVATIVE SHORT MEMOIR BOOK AWARD

Memoir Shaping   -   Memoir as Art   -   Dynamic Memoir


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Enter the TOSP INNOVATIVE SHORT MEMOIR BOOK AWARD: 

Submit your book length short memoir submission of up to 75 pages. This project seeks meaningful short memoir that tells stories of your life that includes several creative forms within the book. The more variety the better -- words, images, sketches, photos, paintings, etc., as long as it can be captured in electronic format on pages for book production.


As with all TOSP submissions, authors retain the rights to their creative work, and grant TOSP permission for publication and distribution.

Winners receive a free eBook and paperback copy of the publication, along with 30-40% discounts on unlimited quantities of print editions of the publication

 

Enter the TOSP Innovative Short Memoir Book Award to:

  • Unearth themes and patterns of your life as they present themselves in your writing, and your story 

  • Employ various literary devices to tell your story true and bold and with originality

  • AND MOST IMPORTANTLY -- Shape your story into narratives using different creative storytelling techniques (prose, lists, images, poems, interviews, dialogues, plays, narrative photography, letters (found letters, open letters, letters to self, etc.), essays, micro-essays, UltraShort Memoir [100 words, any form], sketches, images of paintings, momentos, scanned scrapbook pages, journal entries, etc.).

Follow these steps to enter the TOSP Innovative Short Memoir Book Award:
  1. Submit up to 75 pages of a well-edited, book length memoir which includes a variety of storytelling devices as indicated in the list above

  2. Snail mail 2 hard copies of your memoir to: TOSP 185 AJK Blvd #246, Lewisburg, PA 17837

  3. Provide an electronic version of your memoir either via email attachment or CD. Send emails to: Submissions@TellingOurStoriesPress.com

  4. Provide the Submission Fee of $49 via check made out to: Telling Our Stories Press ; or use PayPal (below)

  5. Your Submission Fee includes a copy of a TOSP Publication, indicate your choice on the Submission Form, and it will be mailed to you
  6. Use the Book Award Submission Form below to provide your Entry Data (You may print the form out and snail mail it, or submit the form electronically here).

  7. Provide all of the above materials by September 15, 2012. The Innovative Book Award Winner will be announced October 30, 2012, on this web site. Winner will be notified in writing. 
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