The Katharine
Susannah Prichard
Short Fiction
Awards
Closing date: 5pm Friday September 30, 2005
Words: Minimum 1000 Maximum 3000
2 Sections: OPEN and the
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards (20 years and under),
OPEN: First $300 Second $50
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards: First $75 Second $25
Highly Commended and Commended Certificates will also be awarded.
Awards announced and presented at the Celebration of Katharine’s Birthday
KSP Writers’ Centre, 3 pm Sunday, December 4, 2005.
No entry form required – open to all Australian residents.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY 1.
Entry fees: OPEN - $5 per story, to be paid by cheque or money order
only, payable to: KSP Foundation Inc.
Shire of Mundaring National Young Writers Awards – no entry fee. 2.
Work to be original, unpublished, not have received an award in
another competition, and not under consideration elsewhere from the time of
entry in these awards until the official announcement of winners. 3.
Limit of three stories per author.
Individual stories cannot be entered in more than one section. 4.
Entries to be typewritten, double-spaced on one side only of A4 white
paper, with pages numbered, a wide left-hand margin, and story title on each page. A good photocopy is acceptable. Post in an A4 size envelope. 5.
To ensure anonymity NO WRITERS’ NAMES TO APPEAR ON MS. Please attach a COVER SHEET with title of
story, word count, Section entered, and age if Young Writer 6.
On a SEPARATE SHEET–note name & year of competition, Section
entered – OPEN or Shire of Mundaring National Young Writer – note age
if for Young Writer section, title & word count of story, your name,
address, telephone number, and email address if available. 7.
MSS will only be returned if adequately stamped self-addressed
envelope (SSAE) of sufficient size is included, other MSS will be destroyed
after the competition, so keep a copy of your work. 8.
Include a business-sized SSAE if you would like only a results sheet. 9.
Award winners will be notified by phone or mail prior to announcement
at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre on Sunday afternoon,
December 4, 2005, when those winners able to attend will be invited to read
excerpts from their stories. 10.
Members of the KSP Foundation Management Committee are not allowed to
enter. 11.
The judges’ decisions are final, and no correspondence will be
entered into. 12.
The KSP Foundation Inc. reserves the right to publish the winning
entry or entries in a publication related to KSP should the opportunity
occur, in consultation with the author. |
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Send entries to: KSP
Short Fiction Awards 11
Old York Road GREENMOUNT WA 6056
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Entries which do not reflect the stated
conditions, or are postmarked later than 5pm September 30, 2005 may be disqualified
and the fee/s forfeited. The
KSP Writers Centre sincerely thanks the Shire of Mundaring, ArtsWA, the WA
Lotteries Commission, and the Australia Council for their continued
assistance and encouragement |