Annual Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story Contest
Original Short Stories by Nebraska Authors
Send to:
Bess Streeter Aldrich House
PO Box 167
Elmwood, NE 68349
Due date for submissions: Her Birthday, Feb. 17, 2008.
Length: 1000 to 2000 words
Three divisions:
Adult:
1st Prize $100
2nd Prize $50
3rd Prize $25
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High School:
1st Prize $50
2nd Prize $25
3rd Prize $15
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Middle School: (Grades 6-8)
1st Prize $50
2nd Prize $25
3rd Prize $15
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Winners will be notified in early April and invited to the Aldrich Foundation's spring banquet. Non-winners who supply a SASE will be notified shortly thereafter.
Please send a cover sheet with your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, title of story, and two copies of your story, one with your name and one without. Include a line telling how you learned about the contest. For students, add age, grade, school, and teacher to the cover sheet. Please enclose SASE for return of results of the contest. Stories will not be returned, so please keep a copy. No copying of the work of others.
Families of Aldrich Foundation Board Members are not eligible. |
