Writing Competition
3000 words or 300 lines!
Hamilton's literary festival, gritLIT seeks three outstanding works of short fiction and three suites of poems. We want to be impressed, thrilled, and entertained. (Your immortality will come later.)
We solemnly swear to
• provide cold hard cash prizes (see below)
• publish the top three entries of fiction and poetry in a handsome chapbook
• supply each of three finalists in each category with three free copies of that chapbook
The gritLIT Challenge of Three is open to writers in Canada and abroad. Stories and suites of poems must be written in English and not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
A submitted story may be up to 3000 words, on any subject.
A suite of poems may be up to 300 lines, on any subject. The submission may be made up of a single poem or multiple poems (up to 15) so long as the total number of lines in the submission is 300 or less, including titles.
Deadline: June 1, 2010
Fiction Prizes: First place $200 // Second place $100 // Third place $50
Entry Fee $20 per story submission.
Poetry Prizes: First place $200 // Second place $100 // Third place $50
Entry Fee $20 per submission of up to 300 lines of poetry.
Sure, you can enter each category as often as you like.
Submission Rules (alas, there are more than three)
- Do not submit via email or email attachment. Email submissions will be discarded.
- Submissions must be received the old-fashioned way. They must be printed on paper and mailed through the post office or courier.
- Two copies of the submission are required. Pages must be numbered and the title or key words from the title must appear at the top of each page. Do not include your name or other identifying information on the submission itself.
- Two separate cover pages are required. On one include your name, address, telephone number, and email address, as well as the title of the story (or the titles of the poems) in the submission. On the second cover page include only the title(s) in the submission and the word count (or poetry line count).
- Do not staple the pages of your submission.
- Photocopies will be accepted, however all submissions must be clearly printed, easily legible and in general, give us the impression you are serious about your writing.
- Submissions will not be returned.
- Please make cheques or money orders payable to GritLIT.
Entries should be addressed to:
gritLIT Literary Competition
69 Hughson St. North, Suite 102
Hamilton, ON
L8R 1G5
All three winning submissions of fiction and of poetry will be published in the gritLIT Literary Chapbook and may also appear on the gritLIT website. The first place winners will be invited to perform at the LiT LiVe Reading Series on the first Sunday of November 2010 in Hamilton. If you need more information, please contact contest@gritlit.ca
For those of you who would like it, here's the PDF version for download.
Writing Competition (.pdf, 162.3 KB)
For those interested in last year's winners and the Start with the Answer chapbook, click here.
