Novel Excerpt
Send us something that makes us want to read more.
Guidelines:
Entry consists of typed, double-spaced novel excerpt or novella totaling no more than 10,000 words.
Please, include the word count on the cover sheet.
See General Guidelines.
Judged by: Jason Sizemore
Winner
The Fastest Girl in Red Hook: Mark Dlugash
Second
Thoughts of Vandalism: Kerwin Frix
Third
Doldrums: Arthur Long
Poetry
Guidelines:
Entry consists of three typed poems of no more than totaling 100 lines or fewer. If more than one poem is entered, poems will be judged as a collection.
No restrictions as to style or content, or spacing.
See General Guidelines.
Winner
Permanence Has Nothing to Do with Love: K.B. Ballentine
Second
Reflections: Lea McMahon
Third
For Us Who Overslept In the City of Six-Million: JP Schuffman
Nonfiction
Guidelines:
Entry consists of one typed, double-spaced nonfiction essay of no more than 3,000 words.
Winner
Getting On, Getting By: Greer Fox
Second
Do Not Go Gently into That PE Class: Ray Penn
Third
The Kiss: Ray Penn
Short Fiction
Guidelines:
Entry consists of one short story totaling no more than 3,000 words.
Judged by: Elizabeth Gentry
Elizabeth Gentry
Elizabeth Gentry’s debut novel Housebound was published in 2013 by Lake Forest College’s & NOW Books, with distribution by Northwestern University Press. The novel was awarded the 2012 Madeleine Plonsker Emerging Writer Award judged by novelist and fairy tale advocate Kate Bernheimer, and was a finalist for the 2014 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Award. Short work has appeared in So to Speak, Confrontation, The Collagist, and Third Coast. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Elizabeth lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she teaches for the University of Tennessee English Department. She received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and currently serves as a Senior Prose Editor for Tupelo Quarterly.
Winner
Eulogy for Great-Aunt Pearl: Terry Wyatt
Second
Crybaby: Victoria Griffin
Third
Uncovered: Linda Hoagland
Young Writers
Open to all high school students, grades 9 through 12, of the Greater Knoxville area of East Tennessee.
Guidelines:
Entry consists of one short story or stand-alone novel excerpt totaling no more than 3,000 words, double-spaced.
OR
Up to a maximum of three typed poems totaling 100 lines or fewer with no restrictions as far as style, content or spacing. Poems will be judged as a collection.
Do not include any identifying information on stories themselves.
If you are a teacher or school submitting entries on behalf of your students, please add the following in the email body (in addition to the information required by the General Guidelines):
-School name
-School address
-School phone number
Please contact KWG if your school or club needs any additional information for bookkeeping or payment purposes, by going to the Contact page and select Contest Questions under Category,.
Winner
Revelations: Sophia Foster
Second
New Daddy: Justin New
Third
3:47am, Laundry Day, Awful Irony: Maggie Gordan, Jacob Hattaway, Faithanne Palmer