The top 20 submissions, which will be judged by readers from the community at large, will be published in the Imagine This! anthology. The top three will also receive cash prizes, being $1,000 for first prize, $500 for second prize and $250 for third.
Send previously unpublished poems, short stories or personal essays.
The stories and essays shouldn’t be more than 1,500 words and the poems shouldn’t be longer than four pages.
Poems can be submitted as a series of up to four poems as long as the poems are related by topic, theme or structure and are to be judged as one complete work. Otherwise, you need to submit separate entries.
Entries are accepted from writers 18 or over around the world, in English.
The closing date is the 31st of March 2014.
It costs $20 per submission to enter the competition. No limit on number of entries.
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