Contest Guidelines
Deadline: October 31, 2005 (postmark)
Works
Accepted: Fiction
&
poetry. Works may not have been previously published. (This includes
Web
publications.)
How to
Label Your Submissions: Please
send us a cover letter with your name, address,
phone number and e-mail address. Please do NOT include your name on
your actual
submissions/manuscripts. If you are submitting a story or long poem,
please
number your pages and use a running head (say the title of the piece)
to help
us avoid any mixups.
Prizes:
First place in each
category (fiction
& poetry) = $500 / total prizes =$1,000
Length
Accepted: Any. (Here, we
must say that works over 30 pages long scare
us)
Submissions
Allowed for $12 Entry Fee: 1 fiction OR 3 poems
Each
Additional $6 Gets You: 1 more fiction
OR 3 more poems. (You
may send as many submissions in as many
genres you wish as long as additional submissions are accompanied by
the $6 reading
fee.)
Method of
Payment: Check or money
order payable to The Tusculum Review
Benefits
from Fees:
One-year
subscription to The Tusculum Review
(an annual publication)
+ consideration for publication. We
ALWAYS consider ALL works submitted for publication. Only works with
entry
fees, however, will be considered for the contest.
Notification: SASE. Please
be sure to also include an e-mail address and phone number with your
submission.
Manuscript
Return: None. Please
do
NOT send postage paid envelopes for return of manuscripts. We do
not have
the staff to accommodate this. All unpublished manuscripts will be
recycled.
Judges: Judges will be
editors and staff of the TTR, faculty
of
Method of
Judging: Manuscripts
will be numbered and all names on the manuscripts will be obliterated
before
they are presented to the judges. We want people to win this contest
based on
their writing, rather than on friendships/relationships to judges. In
the event
that judges do not deem any submissions worthy of the prize, The Tusculum Review reserves to extend
the call for manuscripts or to cancel the award.
Date
Winners Will Be Announced: January 1, 2005.
Method of
Announcement: All
contestants will be sent a list of winners through
their SASEs. We will phone first place winners only and will contact
finalists
by mail. We will announce winners on the
cover of the inaugural issue of TTR
and, if funds permit, through an ad in Poets
and Writers.
Mailing/Contact
Information: Mary Boyes,
Editor,