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Rules for the 2018 Contests are not yet final. We will announce them soon.
However, all stories received between 9/1/2017 and 8/31/2018 are eligible.
The
Preservation
Foundation 2017 Contests
For Unpublished Writers
For
purposes of these contests, unpublished writers are defined as those
whose
creative writing (as opposed to writing for freelance or salaried jobs)
has never
produced
revenues of over $750 in any single year. The Preservation Foundation has sole
authority to rule
on any writer's
eligibility, the appropriateness of stories for entry, contest rules,
and
all other matters relating to the contest.
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Regular
Story Submissions--No Limit
Just to be clear--while
there is a limit of three entries in each of the contests, writers
should
continue
to submit stories not meant for the contests, both nonfiction and
fiction,
for posting on our site. There is no limit. Our
purpose is
to publish your works and you don't have to enter any contests for us
to
do that.
Rules
For the 2017 Contests
This year we will have prizes for three categories of
nonfiction:
Biographical Nonfiction, Travel Nonfiction, and General
Nonfiction.
Stories must be between 1500--10,000 words in length.
Stories posted from September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017, are
eligible
if otherwise qualified.
Just to be clear, we claim no rights to your storys.
They are published with your name as copyright holder.
However, since our
object is to preserve these stories for future generations, not to put
them up one year and take them down the next, all
contest entries
will be posted on our web site and must remain on
the site for
as long as the Preservation Foundation exists.
We
will, however,
have no objection to the stories being published elsewhere.
Contact us if you need clarification.
Stories must be submitted as electronic files. No
paper manuscripts can be considered.
See How
to
submit a story
No story may be entered in more than one contest.
The author
should state which contest he/she is entering when making the
submission.
Stories entered in any of our previous
contests
will not be eligible unless they have been extensively
revised.
A writer may enter up to three stories in each contest. There are
no entry fees.
First prize in each category will be $100. Winners,
runner-ups,
and
finalists in each category will receive certificates of recognition
suitable
for framing.
Biographical
Nonfiction
A biographical entry must be a true
story of an individual(s) known to the author
personally--not
a fictional or historical character. Autobiography,
of
course, must
be the
true story about the author's life, the whole or
an episode.
General
Nonfiction Contest
Any
appropriate nonfiction topic is eligible. Stories must be
true,
not
semi-fictional accounts.
Travel
Nonfiction Contest
Stories
should be factual and true accounts of a trip taken by the author or a
person or persons know by the author.
Judging
As
we write this, the 2017 deadline is over eleven months away, so we
can't
be sure if the same process will apply that has served us in
the past. However, if changes must be made we will make
them.
If not, then the judging will be done as we did it for the 2016
contests.
Click
here to find out how that was done.
Fiction
We
will continue to accept new fictional stories of all types for display
on the site. However, we haven't had a fiction contest since
2000
and won't this year. We love to read your stories though and
are
happy to post them.
This
decisions is based on our belief that many Internet sites now offer
programs
for writers of fiction, while very few encourage nonfiction. We believe
too that writers of fiction are also capable of writing about real
events
in their own lives and the lives of those they know. So get
busy
and prove us right!
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