2006 Carolina's Wisteria Prize for Memoir Writing
2006
Carolina's Wisteria Prize for Memoir Writing
$500 Cash Award
Potential Publication Contract for Book Length Manuscript
Deadline for Entry: October 31, 2006
The 2006 theme is Wide Open
Submission Guidelines
Okay, here's the deal:
How to Submit: Read Carefully. This competition is open to North Carolina and South Carolina writers only. If you are already registered, hopefully we figured out a way that you don't have to do it twice so just go to register above and have at it. We prefer that you register at our site and use the PayPal system; however you may send your essays in on a CD or submit them on paper along with your check or money order.
Originality: Essays will be chosen based on their readability, originality, and beauty. Essays should be previously unpublished works. Winners will have a period of time in which to revise their essays if they are chosen for publication. Not sure what we like? Then we suggest you order All That Matters and/or Seeds of Lotus.
Length/Format: Essays may be any length and style. We can't stress this enough!! Essays must be an original work written by the submitting author. Essays should be word-processed in Microsoft Word 2000 or later.
Publication: We may offer the winning poet a book contract depending on the number and quality of essays they have available. Writers names as Honorable Mentions may be featured in an anthology along with other Writers.
Submission Fees: You may submit up to 10 (ten) essays. The submission fee is a $25 flat fee regardless of the number of essays you submit from one to ten.
Payment/Rights: The winning author will receive $500 cash. Rights revert back to the author upon publication. (A word about submission fees. We don't like them, but we must charge them in order to pay for extra clerical help to process manuscripts.)
Deadline: Essays are due no later than Midnight Eastern Standard Time on October 31, 2006. Essays and submission fees may be submitted via our secure website below or entries may be mailed to Wisteria Prize Memoir, c/o Sojourner Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1575, Wake Forest, NC 27588. No phone calls please. If you choose not to submit your poem using the website, print out the form on the registration page, fill out the name and contact information, and attach it to your mailed entries along with your payment. Make checks and money orders payable to Sojourner Publishing, Inc. Having problems submitting your poem? Write to editor@thepaperjourney.com
Winner Announcement: Winners will be contacted via email on December 31, 2006. Winners names will be posted on the website by January 15, 2007. Writers whose essays were not chosen for publication will not be contacted. Writers should check the website on January 15, 2007 to see if their names are among those chosen. Please remember most of the time we do not contact non-winners. Sometimes if their essays are exceptionally good and it was a close call, the editor-in- chief does contact them. No phone calls please.
Permission: If your essay is accepted for publication, authors must sign a release form stating that the essay is their original work and that they own the rights to the essay. The writer shall accept all responsibility--financial and legal--if multiple submissions to different publishers result in overlapping publication. Authors retain ALL rights after publication.
Cancellation Policy: The Paper Journey Press, an imprint of Sojourner Publishing, Inc. reserves the right to cancel this call for submissions at any time; extend the competition deadline without notice; and/or extend the publication deadline should circumstances warrant without notice. In the event that we do not receive enough quality essays to publish the book we will give you a credit to enter next year's competition, we are unable to refund entrance fees due to the large expense involved in running such a competition. (We've never had to do this but it is prudent to make this disclaimer should we receive less than quality manuscripts.)