WCDR Contests – Whispered Words
Write 1000 words. Win $1000 dollars.
Whispered Words, WCDR’s themed prose competition, is now open. Our writing contest welcomes fiction and non-fiction. We accept prose of all kinds: literary, science fiction, children’s, memoir, essay, creative non-fiction. All entries compete head to head, word for word…and whisper for whisper.
Theme: Whispered Words, of course!
PRIZES:
- $1,000 First Place
- $400 Second Place
- $200 Third Place
Selected honourable mentions, plus First, Second and Third Prize winners, will appear in the Whispered Words anthology and receive $25 PLUS a contributor’s copy. Every entry receives written feedback.
- Maximum: 1000 words
- Entry fee: $20 Canadian ($25 for international entries)
- Deadline: November 30, 2011
- Winners announced: March, 2012
- Three-tier blind judging
- Online entry only—email entries as attachments to whisperedwords@wcdr.org
- Please read our complete contest rules
$20.00 Whispered Words Entry – Canadian
$25.00 Whispered Words Entry – International
Psst…There’s a Whispered Words cover contest, too!
They say a picture’s worth 1000 words, but what do whispers look like? Show us, and your artwork could appear on the cover of our Whispered Words anthology. The prize is $150, publication on the cover of the Whispered Words anthology, plus a contributor’s copy.
- Entry fee: $5 Canadian
- Deadline: November 30, 2011
- Winner announced: March, 2012
- Blind judging
- Online entry only—email entries as attachments to whisperedwords@wcdr.org
- Please read our complete cover contest rules
$5.00 Whispered Words Cover Contest Entry