Writing Competition: Wisdom of Woodstock Anthology. Zebra Communications

Wisdom of Woodstock Anthology
Call for Personal Experience Essays

Writing Competition: Wisdom of Woodstock Anthology

Were you living at the time the world came together in peace, love, and harmony for the now-infamous Woodstock concert? If so, you've spent enough years on earth to have learned some valuable lessons and experienced unique, pleasant, or even unpleasant events that gave you wisdom. Now it's time to share that wisdom in the Wisdom of Woodstock anthology.

We are looking for personal experience essays that show through action and dialogue a scenario in which you learned a big life lesson, whether wise, funny, or even foolish. The best entries will appear in an anthology that will be sold to the public.

If we choose your entry for inclusion in the Wisdom of Woodstock anthology, you will get one free copy of the anthology (value undetermined, but probably between twelve and fifteen US dollars). You also will have the opportunity to buy more copies of the anthology at a deeply discounted price, which you can then sell at the full cover price to everyone you know.

The stories we choose to include will be those that demonstrate a high quality of writing skill while revealing an interesting experience that resulted in an epiphany or wise realization worthy of sharing with others.

A nonrefundable entry fee of $9.50 USD is required for each submission, but there is no limit to the number of entries per person. Yes, you may have more than one story accepted in the anthology.

Official Rules

Eligibility

Anyone who writes in English is eligible to send personal experience essays for potential inclusion in the Wisdom of Woodstock anthology, with the exception of current and former employees, interns, or contract workers of Zebra Communications.

Only original work will be accepted. You must be the writer of any submission you send. Multiple submissions are welcomed.

Length

We accept personal experience essays that are anywhere from 250 words to 2,000 words. Nothing above 2,000 words will be accepted. The word count is determined by the Microsoft Word word count.

Deadline

While the absolute deadline is December 31, 2012, once a sufficient number of high-quality entries are selected for entry, the competition will close and the anthology will go to press. For that reason, early entries have a much higher chance of being accepted than later entries, so enter early and enter often. Entries received before the deadline date but after the anthology is filled will be considered for the second edition of the anthology.

Fees

The entry fee is $9.50 USD per entry, payable by cash, check, or money order made out to Zebra Communications (see mailing address below), or you can use PayPal.com to send $9.50 plus a $2.00 transaction fee, for a total of $11.50 to bobbie@zebraeditor.com or click the "Buy Now" button below to pay directly through PayPal.

Cash payments are accepted, but sent at your own risk.

International payments should be sent through PayPal in US dollars or mailed in the form of a money order or cashier's check in US funds. No international personal checks are accepted.

If you send payment by mail, include in your envelope a printout of the first page of your submission (see Submission Guidelines to see what information must be on the first page). This printout is essential so we can match your payment with your submission.

If paying by cash, check, or money order, send US funds and the first page of your entry to:

Zebra Communications
Wisdom of Woodstock anthology editor
230 Deerchase Drive
Woodstock, GA 30188-4438

Submission Guidelines

Only Microsoft Word documents will be accepted. We will not import or download documents of any other kind. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Do not mail your entries, although you are welcome to mail your fees.

On the first page of every submission, include the following information:

Your name (and your pseudonym if you use one)
Your mailing address
Your city, state, and zip code (If outside the USA, add postal code and country)
Your e-mail address
Your daytime phone number
The title of your submission
The word count of your submission
One paragraph about you, your background, and anything you would want your readers to know about you. Limit this paragraph to 110 words or fewer.

If you pay by cash, check, or money order, be sure to print out and mail with your payment the first page with all the above information on it.

Only electronic submissions of Microsoft Word files will be considered. After sending payment by mail or through PayPal.com, send your submission as an attachment to bobbie@zebraeditor.com.

Caution: Submissions that do not follow the guidelines will be ineligible, but entry fees are nonrefundable.

Privacy Policy

Zebra Communications does not release or sell client or entrant information to third parties or mailing lists, period. You may receive an e-mail invitation to subscribe to The Writers Network News, our free newsletter for writers, but you will not be inundated with e-mail from us. We resent that type of mass marketing as much as you do.

Rights

All essays remain the property of the person who wrote them. If any of your entries are published in our anthology, you have the right to sell your work elsewhere, after the anthology is published.

We reserve the write to edit, tighten, or otherwise revise any entry before publication; however we will never change the message or the meaning. We also will ensure all accepted entries comply with Chicago style.

Judging

All entries are judged on the basis of originality, creativity, characterization, writing quality, adherence to the 2,000-word limit, and the ability to make a good point about wisdom. All decisions of the judges are final.

Notification

All authors whose work is selected for inclusion in our anthology will be notified by postal mail, e-mail, or telephone.

Questions?

All submissions and questions should be sent to Bobbie Christmas at bobbie@zebraeditor.com.

Make your reservation now to work with Bobbie Christmas!

Wisdom of Woodstock Anthology Call for Personal Experience Essays