The Katharine Susannah Prichard

Speculative Fiction Awards 2008

 

Closing date:  5pm Friday May 30, 2008

 

Words:  Minimum 1500, maximum 3500.  All forms of Speculative Fiction welcome.

 

2 Sections:  OPEN and the

Young Writers Awards (20 years and under)

 

 PRIZES

OPEN:  First $200  Second $50

Young Writers Awards:  First $75  Second $25

Highly Commended and Commended Certificates will also be awarded.

 

Awards announced and presented at  

KSP Writers’ Centre, Sun August 17, 2008.

 

No entry form required

 

 

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

 

1.     Entry fees:

      Open - $7.50 per story, to be paid by cheque or money order only 

      Young Writers Awards – no entry fee

2.     Work to be original, unpublished, not received an award in another competition and not under consideration elsewhere from the time of entry in these awards until the official announcement of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 MANUSCRIPT (MS).  Please attach a COVER SHEET with name of story, word count, section entered, and age if Young Writer

6.    On a SEPARATE SHEET please attach form below

7.    MSs will only be returned if adequately stamped self-addressed envelope (SSAE) of sufficient size is included. Other manuscripts 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, when those 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

 

                      Send entries to:             

KSP Speculative Fiction Awards

11 Old York Road

GREENMOUNT  WA  6056

 

Entries which do not reflect the stated conditions, or are postmarked later than

5pm May 30, 2008 may be disqualified without notice and the fee/s forfeited.

 

 

The Foundation is dedicated to providing a Writers’ Centre and related community activities at Katharine’s Place, the former home of Katharine Susannah Prichard  (1883-1969) the internationally celebrated author of

 Coonardoo, Working Bullocks and many other novels, stories and plays

 

 

 

 

The Katharine Susannah Prichard

Speculative Fiction Awards 2008

 

Closing date:  5pm Friday May 30, 2008

 

 

Section entered (please circle):  Open / Young Writers (age                              )

 

Name                                                                                                                                     

 

Address                                                                                                                                

 

                                                                                                            Postcode                  

 

Telephone number(s)                                                                                                          

 

Email                                                                                                                                     

 

 

Title story 1:                                                                                        word count               

 

 

Title story 2:                                                                                        word count               

 

 

Title story 3:                                                                                        word count               

 

Please note $7.50 entry for each story in Open category.

Cheque or money order made out to KSP Foundation Inc.

 

Send entry to KSP Speculative Fiction Awards

11 Old York Road

GREENMOUNT WA 6056