Now Accepting Entries for the 2011 Betty Gabehart Prize
Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s.
Three prizes are awarded, in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Each winner receives $200, two 2-day passes, and the opportunity to read her winning manuscript at the conference.
The Betty Gabehart Prize in Poetry
2011 Submission Guidelines
Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s.
One winner will be chosen in each of three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive:
$200
two 2-day passes for herself and one guest
the opportunity to read her winning manuscript during the conference on September 16 or 17, 2011.
space in a small-group writing workshop
Eligibility
Please do not apply if you have won this award in the past five years (2006 or later).
Works that are previously published are not eligible for this award.
The contest is open to any female writer of English.
Employees or board members of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference are not eligible.
Manuscript Format
Fiction and nonfiction should be no more than 6,000 words in length; poems have no word limit.
Please submit two copies of the manuscript.
The author’s name or address must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
The manuscript must be on standard white paper, single-sided.
Paginate correctly.
Submission Information
Each work entered must be accompanied by its own entry form and entry fee, as follows: $10 per poem, work of fiction or nonfiction, payable to Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Please write a single check for multiple entries.
Submission of more than one work is permissible; each must be accompanied by its own entry form and fee. If multiple works are entered with a single entry fee, only the first work will be accepted.
Manuscripts must be postmarked by July 1, 2011.
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you would like notification that the manuscript has been received.
We cannot return manuscripts.
Contest results will be posted on our website on August 12, 2011. Winners will be notified immediately.
Please send entries to:
Betty Gabehart Prize
Kentucky Women Writers Conference
University of Kentucky
232 East Maxwell Street
Lexington, KY 40506-0344
Direct inquiries to: kentuckywomenwriters@gmail.com