Enter WNBA’s Fifth Annual Writing Contest! Deadline January 15, 2017

Our 2016-2017 Writing Contest is accepting submissions!

The contest began September 15, 2016
and will end January 15, 2017
Contest winners announced May 1, 2017

More details

Questions? Email Contest Chairperson: joan@joangelfand.com

First place winners receive $250.00.
There will be four awards in each category: 1, 2, 3, and Honorable Mention.
All four winners will be published in a special Contest Edition of the WNBA’s National Newsletter, The Bookwoman. All winners will be posted on the Women’s National Book Association website.

Entries are accepted in three categories:

Fiction:
3,000 word maximum length, no theme required

Creative Nonfiction/ Memoir:
2,500 word maximum

Poetry:
3-5 pages of poetry (double-spaced)

Each entry requires a small submission fee: $15 for WNBA members and $20 for non-members.  All entries will be read and judged as blind entries.

Submit your work online here

Open to WNBA members and non-members.  You may enter as many works as you wish, but each one requires an entry fee. If you have any questions, please email the contest chairperson  joan@joangelfand.com

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 Judges

Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Marianne Williamson,Huston Smith and Paolo Coelho. Knight served as publisher of Cleis Press and was awarded
IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year in 2014. Knight is the author of Wild Women and Books, Be a
Good in the World, and Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award.  Managing Director of Mango Media, she also serves as President of the Womens’ National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter.

Ellen Urbani is the author of the novel Landfall, a Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads selection set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Her work has been profiled in the
Oscar-qualified short documentary film Paint Me a Future. A Southern expat now residing in Oregon, her pets will always be dawgs and her truest allegiance will always reside with the Crimson Tide.

Linda Joy Myers is president and founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Her memoir Don’t Call Me Mother—A Daughter’s Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness was a finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year Award, a finalist in the IndieExcellence Awards, and won the BAIPA Gold Medal award.Linda offers workshops internationally, and helps people capture their stories through coaching, editing, and online workshops.