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E.M. Koeppel $1,100 Short Fiction Award

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Submitted by noid on Fri, 2007-03-02 11:25.
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E.M. Koeppel $1,100 Short Fiction Award

Annual Awards for Unpublished Fiction in Any Style, Any Theme

Guidelines:

  • First Place Award: $1,100.
  • Editors' Choices: $100 each.
  • Maximum Length: 3,000 words. Stories must be unpublished.
  • Annual Submission Period: Between Oct. 1 and April 30. (Postmark Deadline, April 30)
  • Award winning fiction writers are the judges.
  • No limit on number of stories entered by any one writer.
  • The winning short story and editors' choices will be published on www.writecorner.com and are eligible for inclusion in the permanent website writecorner.com anthology. (By submitting work to this contest, authors give permission to Writecorner Press to publish the award winning stories and editors' choices on the writecorner.com website. Authors retain all other rights to their works.)

How to Submit:

  1. Send one (1) typed copy of the story with two (2) typed title pages. Only the title may appear on the first title page. No other kinds of identification may appear on this title page or on the manuscript which will be used in judging.  (Keep a copy. No manuscripts will be returned.)
  2. On the second title page, list:
    1. Title of the story
    2. Author's name, address, phone number
    3. E-mail address optional
    4. Short bio - about 4 lines
  3. Entry Fee: $15 for a single story and $10 for each additional story.
  4. No e-mail entries accepted.
  5. Mail submission with check (no cash). If sent from outside the USA, send money order in US funds (no cash or foreign funds) to:

(Address for 2007 Contest)
Koeppel Contest
P.O. Box 140310
Gainesville, FL 32614

P.L Titus Scholarship:

If the winning story is by anyone attending a college, a university, or a school when the story is submitted, the winner will receive, in addition to the $1,100 award, the $500 P.L. Titus Scholarship. (Proof of attendance is required.) P.L. Titus Scholarship

Origin of the Contest:

E.M. Koeppel (Emma Marx Koeppel), Em to her friends, always craved the life of a writer but the Depression and World War II stopped her education at the university. So she turned to teaching, writing for the local newspaper, and raising a family. Courageously, in the 1960s (and in her 50s) Em Koeppel broke tradition by returning to the University of Wisconsin to live in a dorm and finish her degree. This award honors Em Koeppel's love of writing and her desire to assist and reward fine writers.

NOTE: The E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Awards and the P.L. Titus Scholarship follow the ethics guidelines recommended by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Judges review submissions with no author identification. (See contest guidelines.) The following are ineligible to receive the monetary awards: short stories already published or accepted for publication elsewhere; stories by Writecorner editors or judges; relatives of judges or editors. Stories which win the $1,100 cash prize are ineligible for re-submission to the contest.

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