Monday.
That’s the deadline for Wisconsin writers to get their work entered in the Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Contest for work published in 2021.
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.