Submission Guidelines for The Confidante Writing Contest
1. Writers must be undergraduates, must not have a bachelor's degree, and must be enrolled for credit at some time during the 2009-2010 school year at Delta State University.
2. Works entered must not have been published in any publication with the exception of the Delta Statement.
3. The categories for submissions are:
Poetry - not to exceed 100 lines for one poem for for a group of poems
One-Act Plays - not to exceed 5,000 words
Short Fiction - Not to exceed 5,000 words
Essays (Formal/Expository or Informal/Creative Nonfiction) - Not to exceed 5,000 words
4. Entries must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and emailed as an attachment to confidante@deltastate.edu. Please do not include any identifying marks on your submissions (such as name, address or 900#). In the body of your email, please include your name, permanent and local addresses, telephone number, and email address(es). Manuscripts will not be returned.
5. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, December 9th. All entrants will receive a response to their entry no later than January 22, 2010.
6. If your submission is selected as a winner of the Confidante Writing Contest, you will automatically be entered into the Southern Literary Festival's Contest. You will, at that time, be required to submit your work again in a different format. Complete details will be mailed to you in the event that your work qualifies to move on to the next level of competition.