It's that time of year again: Time for Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Magazine's Essay & Short Story Contest. Winners will be honored at the Bethesda Literary Festival, April 15-17, 2011.
Deadline to submit is February 25, 2011.
Details:
Essay Contest
Topic: Have you encountered a moment of epiphany, as if your eyes were opened to something you were previously blind to? Describe this experience.
Details:
Essay Contest
Topic: Have you encountered a moment of epiphany, as if your eyes were opened to something you were previously blind to? Describe this experience.
Requirements: Essays should be limited to 500 words or less. Submissions must be sent via email as Microsoft Word attachments to essay@bethesda.org. The writer's full name, mailing address, phone number, and email address must be in the email and on the cover page of the story itself. Submissions without this information will be disqualified.
Eligibility: Residents of Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia are eligible. The contest will take entries in two categories: Young Adult (grades 9-12) and Adult (ages 18 +). Writers must specify whether they are entering the young adult or the adult contest.
Questions? Please email Lpatterson@bethesda.org or call 301.215.6660, Ext. 42.
Short Story Contest
Topic: Open
Eligibility: Residents of Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia are eligible. The contest will take entries in two categories: Young Adult (grades 9-12) and Adult (ages 18 +). Writers must specify whether they are entering the young adult or the adult contest.
Questions? Please email Lpatterson@bethesda.org or call 301.215.6660, Ext. 42.
Short Story Contest
Topic: Open
Requirements: Stories must be limited to 4,000 words or less. Submissions must be sent via email as Microsoft Word attachments to shortstory@bethesdamagazine.com. The writer's full name, mailing address, phone number, and email address must be in the email and on the cover page of the story itself. Submissions without this information will be disqualified.
Eligibility: Residents of Montgomery County, MD and Upper NW Washington, DC only are eligible. The contest will take entries in two categories: Young Adult (grades 9-12) and Adult (ages 18+). Writers must specify whether they are entering the young adult or the adult contest.
Questions? Please email katryn.norman@bethesdamagazine.com or call 301.718.7787, Ext 207.
For more information, visit http://www.bethesda.org/ or http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/
AWARDS:
First place: $500 and published in Bethesda Magazine.
Second Place: $250
Third Place: 150
Honorable mentions: $75
The first place winner in each contest will also receive a gift certificate to The Writer's Center.
Each second, third, and honorable mention essay and short story will be published on the Bethesda Magazine and Bethesda Urban Partnership Web sites.
Young Adult winners receive: $250, first place; $100, second place; $50, third place. Bethesda Magazine will print the first place essay & short story.
Eligibility: Residents of Montgomery County, MD and Upper NW Washington, DC only are eligible. The contest will take entries in two categories: Young Adult (grades 9-12) and Adult (ages 18+). Writers must specify whether they are entering the young adult or the adult contest.
Questions? Please email katryn.norman@bethesdamagazine.com or call 301.718.7787, Ext 207.
For more information, visit http://www.bethesda.org/ or http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/
AWARDS:
First place: $500 and published in Bethesda Magazine.
Second Place: $250
Third Place: 150
Honorable mentions: $75
The first place winner in each contest will also receive a gift certificate to The Writer's Center.
Each second, third, and honorable mention essay and short story will be published on the Bethesda Magazine and Bethesda Urban Partnership Web sites.
Young Adult winners receive: $250, first place; $100, second place; $50, third place. Bethesda Magazine will print the first place essay & short story.
