Announcing
THE SWW INTERNATIONAL
MONTHLY WRITING COMPETITION



Now there's a quick and easy, low-cost writing competition at SWW to sharpen your skills. A different category will be offered each month. Enter them all!

And note that, while you don't have to be an SWW member to enter, SWW members enjoy a reduced entry fee. So join today! Click here to use our secure on-line payment to join SWW; or phone our office with your credit card information; or send us a check or money order.

Allow up to sixty days for the results to be posted. Entries are shipped to judges after the middle of the month following the deadline to allow all snail-mailed entries to actually reach our organization. Winners are posted on our website as soon as they are known. Prizes and certificates follow soon after.

EASY INSTRUCTIONS
  • Open to any writer in the world.
  • All entries must be postmarked by the date listed.
  • Original, unpublished work only.
  • No cover sheets.
  • Print the following information on first page: Name; Address; Phone; E-mail (if any); Category Name
  • Manuscripts prepared in standard format: 1" margins, double-spaced unless otherwise specified.
  • Entries are not returned, so there's no need for an SASE.
  • $5 entry fee for SWW members; $10 entry fee for nonmembers.
  • You may enter more than once, but an entry fee must accompany each entry.
  • Decisions of the judges will be final.
  • Prizes: $50 1st Prize; $30 2nd Prize; $20 3rd Prize + certificates.
  • Mail entries to:

SWW Monthly Writing Competition
3721 Morris St NE, Ste A
Albuquerque, NM 87111
(Print name of category under your return address)

July 2008

Fourth of July Anecdote

Write in first person about a memorable 4th of July incident or event that you still remember all these years (or even about this year's holiday).

500 words maximum, double-spaced.

Cash Prizes: Prizes: $50 1st Prize; $30 2nd Prize; $20 3rd Prize + certificates.

Entry Fee: $5 SWW members/$10 non-members.

Postmark deadline: Thursday, July 31, 2008

August 2008

Memoir

Dig out those memories and write a humorous, poignant or whatever-strikes-your-fancy type of memoir in first-person..

750 words maximum, double-spaced.

Cash Prizes: Prizes: $50 1st Prize; $30 2nd Prize; $20 3rd Prize + certificates.

Entry Fee: $5 SWW members/$10 non-members.

Postmark deadline: Monday, September 1, 2008

September 2008

What I did this summer

Write an essay about something memorable (or even humdrum) that you did this summer--suitable for a newspaper/magazine column. It can be humorous, serious, poignant, exciting, whatever.

Write in 1st person, 500 words maximum, double-spaced.

Cash Prizes: Prizes: $50 1st Prize; $30 2nd Prize; $20 3rd Prize + certificates.

Entry Fee: $5 SWW members/$10 non-members.

Postmark deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2008.