Calling All Writers:
22nd Annual Phidian Art Club Literary Competition
ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to any writer, professional
or non-professional, aged 17 (by March 15, 2010) or older, residing within
a 35-mile radius of Dixon, Illinois.
CATEGORIES: (One entry per category)
Poetry: Any form, 30-line limit.
Fiction: 3,500-word limit.
Non-fiction: 3,000-word limit.
ENTRY DEADLINE: March 15, 2010.
ENTRY FEE: $8.00 per manuscript included with each entry. Checks
should be made payable to Phidian Art Club.
RULES: All entries must be original and unpublished, typed and
double-spaced on one side of 8-1/2 by 11-inch paper. Writers may submit
one entry in each category.
Each entry must have a cover sheet listing title, category,
author’s name, address, phone number and email address.
Because the judging is “blind” (the judge does not know who wrote the
work), the author’s name must be omitted from manuscript pages,
which should have only title and page number at top of each page. Fiction
and non-fiction entries must have word count in upper right-hand
corner of page one.
A self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage must be
enclosed for return of manuscripts. This is recommended.
Judges often include helpful remarks with the manuscripts. Entrants should
keep copies of manuscripts. The Phidian Art Club is not responsible for
lost or damaged material.
PRIZES: $50 for first place in each category; $35 for second in
each; $25 for third in each. At least three entries must be received in
each category for awards to be given, unless the work merits award.
Decisions of the judges are final. Winners will be contacted in April and
invited to the May 4 spring luncheon with the Phidian Art Club in order to
receive awards. The luncheon will include readings by the writers of the
first place winners in fiction and nonfiction and all winners in the
poetry category. Winners also will be announced in May in area media.
MAIL OR HAND DELIVER MANUSCRIPTS TO:
Phidian Art Club, c/o Dixon Public Library
221 S. Hennepin Ave.
Dixon, IL 61021
Additional copies of rules may be obtained at area libraries. A bound
volume of winning entries from previous competitions may be read at Dixon
Public Library.
QUESTIONS: Call or email Nancy Mayfield, literary committee
chair, at (815) 285-0035 or
npmayfield@yahoo.com
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