Contests
Creative Nonfiction Book Award
First Book Award for Poetry
Zone 3 Literary Awards
Zone 3 Press
First Book Award for Poetry
Prize: $1,000 and Publication
Guidelines:
• One copy of your manuscript of 48-80 pages.
• Two title pages: one with name, address, e-mail address, and phone number and one with title only.
• An acknowledgments page may be included.
• $20.00 reading fee made payable to Zone 3 Press. Reading fee includes a
one-year subscription to Zone 3.
• Deadline: May 1, 2012.
Eligibility and Additional Considerations:
• Anyone who has not published a full-length collection of poems (48 pages or
more) is eligible; those with chapbooks may participate.
•The final judge will be announced.
•In order to ensure the integrity of this award, current and former
students and faculty of APSU are not eligible to enter. In addition, Zone 3
Press will not accept manuscripts from contestants who have previously
studied with, or have a personal relationship with the announced judge. Zone
3 Press is committed to providing an ethically responsible competition; as
such, the editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that display any
form of ethical impropriety.
•Winner will be notified by e-mail or telephone.
• Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for confirmation of manuscript receipt.
• For contest results, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Manuscripts will not be returned.
•Questions should be addressed to Blas Falconer at
falconerb@apsu.edu or Susan Wallace at
wallacess@apsu.
Send entries to:
Blas Falconer, Acquisitions Editor
Zone 3 Press
First Book Award for Poetry
Austin Peay State University
P.O. Box 4565
Clarksville, Tennessee 37044
Zone 3 Press
Creative Nonfiction Book Award
Prize: $1,000 and Publication
Guidelines:
Eligibility and Additional Considerations:
• One copy of your manuscript of 150-300 pages.
• Two title pages: one with name, address, e-mail address, and phone number
and one with title only.
• An acknowledgments page may be included.
• $25.00 reading fee made payable to Zone 3 Press. Reading fee includes a one-year subscription to ZONE 3 Journal.
• Postmark Deadline: May 1, 2013.
•The competition is open to all authors writing original works in English.
Manuscripts that embrace creative nonfiction’s potential by combining lyric exposition,
researched reflection, travel dialogues, or creative criticism are encouraged. Memoir,
personal narrative, essay collections, and literary nonfiction are also invited.
• The final judge will be announced.
• In order to ensure the integrity of this award, current and former students and
faculty of APSU are not eligible to enter. In addition, Zone 3 Press will not accept
manuscripts from contestants who have previously studied with, or have a personal
relationship with the announced judge. Zone 3 Press is committed to providing an ethically
responsible competition; as such, the editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that
display any form of ethical impropriety.
• The winner will be notified by e-mail or
telephone.
• Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for confirmation of manuscript receipt.
• For contest results, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Manuscripts will not be returned.
• The judge may choose no winner if she finds no manuscript that, in her estimation, merits publication and the award.
• Questions should be addressed to Amy Wright at
wrighta@apsu.edu or Susan Wallace at
wallacess@apsu.edu.
Send entries to:
Amy Wright, Acquisitions Editor
Zone 3 Press
Creative Nonfiction Book Award
Austin Peay State University
P.O. Box 4565
Clarksville, Tennessee 37044
Zone 3 Nonfiction Award
Zone 3 is accepting submissions for its nonfiction contest. Submit one essay with SASE and $10 entry fee to: Zone 3, APSU, P.O. Box 4565, Clarksville, TN 37044. No deadline. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription. The winner will be announced in the Fall 2012 issue of Zone 3. Prize: $250 and publication.
Congratulations to Jane Tompkins, whose essay, "The Re-enchantment of Learning," has won the inaugural Zone 3 Nonfiction Award.
Zone 3 is now accepting submissions for its twelfth annual fiction award. Submit one story with SASE and $10 entry fee to: Zone 3, APSU, P.O. Box 4565, Clarksville, TN 37044. No deadline. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Zone 3. The winner will be announced in the Fall 2012 issue of Zone 3. Prize: $250 and publication.
Zone 3 is pleased to announce William Torrey as the winner of our eleventh annual Zone 3 Fiction Award for his story “Trabajar,” which was published in our Spring 2011 issue.
Congratulations to Gabriel Spera, winner of the Evelyn Scott Poetry Prize* for his poem “Opossum" (Spring 2011).
Zone 3 is now accepting submissions for its annual poetry award.
Submit up to three poems (with SASE and $10 entry fee) to Zone 3,
APSU, Box 4565, Clarksville, TN 37044. Your submission should include a cover page with your name,
address, and the title(s) of your poem(s). No deadline. All entrants will
receive
a
one-year subscription to Zone 3.
The winner
will be announced in the Spring 2012 issue of
Zone 3.
Prize: $500 and publication.
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