Update: Three of the winners have been notified by email. We are waiting for the judges’ decisions on the fourth category. Once we have heard from all four winners that they can attend, we will announce the winners. Hopefully on Monday.
Thank you to all who entered. This was quite an avalanche!
Enter to win a Scholarship to the 2023 Santa Barbara Writers Conference, June 18-23
• No entry fee
• You may share this opportunity with others.
• There are 4 categories. You are welcome to enter each category. One entry per email. One entry per category, per person.
• Send entries by attached Word Doc or PDF to sbwc.mascot@gmail.com
Contact information should include:
Name · Phone number · Email address · Mailing address
• Put category of entry in the email subject line.
• This must be your original work.
• Scholarship recipients must be able to attend the conference this year. If not, the scholarship will be awarded to a runner-up.
Contest opens: NOW April 14, 2023. Submission period closes MIDNIGHT, Monday, May 1, 2023 PDT. Submission period is 2 weeks, so don’t procrastinate.
Four full tuition scholarships to the 2023 Santa Barbara Writers Conference will be awarded ($799 value, each). SBWC reserves the option of awarding more than one scholarship in a particular category, if any other category lacks a winner. But the goal will be to have four winners total from the four categories.
Scholarship recipients must be able to attend the conference this year. If not, the full scholarship will be awarded to a runner up.
Winners will be announced approximately one week after the contests close, as soon as the judges have completed their work.
Categories:
FICTION: Limit 500 words. This may be the opening of longer fiction or an entire flash fiction story. Please indicate which in your cover email.
NONFICTION: Limit 500 words. This can be a short essay, memoir piece, or the opening to a longer nonfiction piece. Please indicate which in your cover email
POETRY: Limit 50 lines
HUMOR: Limit 500 words. Judges will look for the funny factor, as well as general excellence in writing. For extra credit include the element of death in your piece. Let’s whistle past the graveyard. Funny things happen at funerals. Or you know, when the goldfish died, and you had to__________.
The humor contest is in honor the infamous SBWC Humor Workshop Leader Ian Bernard. See earlier blog post about him. https://www.sbwriters.com/blog/2023/4/11/ian-bernard-august-17-1930-to-november-30-2022
The judging teams will look for writing excellence appropriate to each category. All the judges are award-winning, published authors who are associated with SBWC. We do not announce the names of the judges.
