One thing is missing from the bookshelves of the world: your perspective. Write your own story. Be your own author.
Local wordsmiths are invited to enter the 40th Annual Adult Creative Writing Contest for a chance to win cash. A new category, Graphic Story, encourages writers with an artistic talent to submit their best original artwork and story. The annual event is sponsored by The Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries.
The contest is open to any person 18 years or older who lives, works, attends school in Tulsa County or has a nonresident Tulsa City-County Library card. The deadline to submit entries is March 31.
Submissions of unpublished original text are welcomed in these categories:
· Poetry – with a 400-word limit
· Informal Essay – with a 5,000-word limit
· Children’s Fiction – with a 3,000-word limit
· Short Story – with a 5,000 word limit
· Graphic Story – 10 pages of original, illustrated fiction or nonfiction submitted on 8.5 x 11 paper. May be in black and white or color.
A $100 cash prize and a certificate are awarded to the best works in each category. Second-place winners receive a $50 cash prize and a certificate. Certificates are awarded to those receiving honorable mention. Individuals may submit one entry per category. Each entry must have a separate entry form and a $6 entry fee.
All participants and winners are invited to the awards ceremony at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 13, in Central Library’s Aaronson Auditorium, Fifth Street and Denver Avenue. First-place winners from each category will have the opportunity to read a short selection from his or her winning entry.
Entry forms, with a complete set of rules, are available at all TCCL locations or online at www.tulsalibrary.org/friends. For more information on the Adult Creative Writing Contest, call the AskUs Hotline, 918-549-7323.
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