The West Virginia Writers Annual Writing Contests for 2019 are now open for submissions as of January 2, 2019. We will continue accepting entries through March 31, 2019.
The contest entry forms are posted below along with last year's frequently asked questions list, which will soon be updated for 2019.
As with last year's contests, we will be accepting entries via Submittable, which entrants last year found saves tremendously in terms of time and postage costs.
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| Adult contest entry form | New Mountain Voices entry form |
If you have questions, please address them to Contest Coordinator Brad Mills at wvwcontest@gmail.com.
CONTEST JUDGES FOR 2019
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FACTS ABOUT THE CONTEST
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Established in 1982
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The state's largest writing competition.
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Adult contest open to West Virginia residents and members of WV Writers, Inc., adult or college-level.
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New Mountain Voices Student Writing Contest (with different writing categories for grades 1-5, 6-8 and 9-12)
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Over $122,000.00 in prize money awarded since 1982.
Hello is there a way to read the winners stories for the past years?
David,
Technically, yes, but probably not in the way most folks expect. Some of the winning entries from 1977-2008 have been published in five separate collections. These were done on a piece by piece basis, since WVW retains no rights to publication of the winning pieces, so even the collections do not contain ALL contest winners, but only a majority of them. The last such volume, Seeking the Swan, was published in 2008. (You can find these listed on Amazon. If you attend a WVW Summer Conference, I feel certain we can find a copy of it for you, and possibly most of the others.)
We have not published such a volume in the last 10 years, but have talked about possibly doing an online publication.
How many entries may I submit?
As many as you like for the adult contest. We only put a limit of 3 entries for the New Mountain Voices Student contest.