New COMPETITION

RISING TIDE PRESS Contest

(Deadline has been extended to March 31.)

 

 

Rising Tide Press announces its second annual writing contest. After a successful first competition, the publishers have decided to broaden the base this year to include poetry and short fiction. 

 

Submissions of unpublished poems are invited from writers in Canada and the United States.   Send any number of poems in any style, maximum length of each poem, 30 lines.  Unpublished short stories not to exceed 3,000 words in length.

 

Prizes: 1^st Place: $200;  2^nd  Place: $100; and 3^rd Place: $50; seven honorable mentions in each category.    Best ten poems and stories will be published in Rising Tide Two.  

 

Charge: $12 per poem or story, or three entries for $30. payable to Rising Tide Press. 

 

Deadline: March 31, 2006. 

 

Each entry must be typed on 8 ½” x 11” paper, double-spaced for short stories and single-spaced for poetry, in a standard 12-point font such as Courier, Arial or Times New Roman. Each entry must be accompanied by an introductory page including the author’s name, address, and e-mail address, the title of the entry, and the number of words and/or lines.  Each page of each entry must include the title.  The author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.  Electronic submissions can be sent to tidepress@yahoo.ca using only Microsoft Word attachment, payment by Paypal.  Title of entry and author's name must be indicated on the Paypal form, so we can match online payment to email entries received.

 

Winners will be announced in May.  Please mail submissions to Rising Tide Press, Box 5070, 472 Overton Road, R.R.#3, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, B5A 4A7.

 

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Payment by Paypal - Submit here, if you wish to enter a single poem or short story. When sending payment, please indicate on the Paypal form the entry's title and author's name.  Fee: $12 CAD

 

Payment by Paypal - Submit here, if you wish to enter any combination of three submissions (three poems; three stories; or two of one genre and one of the other). Fee $30 CAD (save $6.00!).  Please indicate on the Paypal form the author's name and title of each separate poem or story.

 

Thank you for supporting small presses such as this one. We sincerely appreciate your contest entry. Best of luck!