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Third Annual Write Action Literary Contest

It’s time for the Third Annual Write Action Literary Contest. The theme this year is DOORS. Prose writers and poets are invited to submit their work. Entries will be expected to reflect the writer’s reaction or response to the theme word DOORS, whether literal or figurative, actual or metaphorical.

First prize winners will be published in the Brattleboro Reformer, and winners will also have a chance to read their work at an open reading at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, 2007.

A single prose entry should be no more than 1500 words, and a single poetry entry no more than one page (single spaced). Three top winners will be chosen in each category, by a distinguished panel of local judges. First prize in each category is a $50 gift certificate; 2nd and 3rd place runners-up will receive $25 gift certificates.

Please submit entries by the July 1, 2007 deadline. Winners will be announced at the Write Action Picnic, and in the Brattleboro Reformer, in August.

Here’s how to enter: Send a manuscript with a cover; put your name, address, email address and phone number on the cover; do not put any identifying information on any of the pages of your manuscript. The first entry is free; up to two more entries in each category may be submitted for a $5 entry fee per submission, checks to Write Action. Mail to: Write Action, PO Box 822, Brattleboro, VT 05302. If you have any questions, please call 254-7755. Entries must be postmarked by July 1st, 2007.

Write Action is a non-profit organization formed to strengthen a community of writers in Brattleboro and the surrounding area; and to nurture, encourage, and promote the literary arts in the community at large.