Attention, Wisconsin Writers!
Only a couple of weeks left to get your entries mailed to Counsel for Wisconsin Writers awards contest coordinators for work published in 2021.
After a year’s hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Council for Wisconsin Writers is holding its 56th annual awards contest.
All entries must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2022.
This contest is for work published during the 2021 calendar year.
– Categories include:
– Book-length poetry,
– Set of five poems, two of which must have been published in the contest year,
– Book-length fiction,
– Short fiction,
– Book-length nonfiction,
– Short nonfiction,
– Children’s literature,
– Young Writers Award.
First-place winners in all categories except the Young Writers Award will receive $500 and a one-week writer’s residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point WI.
Honorable mention recipients will receive $50 and a one-week writer’s residency at the Painted Forest Study Center Valton WI.
Specific guidelines, entry forms and important additional information can be found at CWW’s website, http://wiswriters.org.