Georgia Writers Association
announces the
Nora DeLoach Memorial Young Mystery Writers Competition
and the
Dwight Humphries Memorial Young Poets Competition
for
Georgia High School Juniors and Seniors,
including private school and home schooled students.

CASH PRIZES: $100 First Prize; $70 Second Prize; $50 Third Prize (for each competition).
Cash Prizes are sponsored by Bonita Davis

PUBLICATION: Volume I of Branch Water Review: an Anthology.
This collection of student winners' works will be published on September 28, 2002.

Publication of Branch Water Review is sponsored by Susan Crawford of
Ardmore Publishing Company, celebrating the release of
Lest You Forget, the poems of Violet Witherspoon.

STUDENT READINGS & AWARDS
to be presented during Georgia Writers Association's
3rd Annual Georgia Book and Arts Festival
at
Centennial Olympic Park
September 28, 2002

COMPETITION GUIDELINES

ENTRY FEES: $1 per entry by check or money order (no cash, please) made payable to
Georgia Writers Association.

DEADLINE: July 1, 2002

SEND TO:  Georgia Writers Association
               High School Writing Competitions
               2633 Foxglove Drive
               Marietta, GA 30064

MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS: All works must be students' best efforts, clean copies, carefully edited for grammar and punctuation. No previously published work.

STORIES - 2000 words, maximum; Two copies of each entry; Student's name, address, phone number, e-mail (if available), school, teacher's name, grade level, age, on upper left hand corner of one copy only. FORMATTING: Plain white paper, Double-spaced, 1 ½" margins; Font - Times Roman, 12pt; No fancy fonts. All entries must have page numbers and title as a header on every page (i.e., My Story - Page 2 of 3).

POETRY - Any subject, any style; 120 lines, maximum (shorter poems OK), one poem per page (continuing pages for longer poems understood); Two copies of each entry; Student's name, address, phone number, e-mail (if available), school, teacher's name, grade level, age, on one copy only.
FORMATTING: Plain white paper, Double or Single-spaced OK, minimum 1 ½" margins; Font - Times Roman, 12pt; No fancy fonts. All entries must have page numbers and title as a header on every page (i.e., My Poem - Page 2 of 2).

ALSO PLEASE SEE: http://www.georgiawriters.org/SummerCamp.htm

QUESTIONS? E-mail: YGW-Contest@georgiawriters.org or phone: 770-943-5699.

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