el ANDAR Prize for Literary Excellence
Since its inception,
el ANDAR has promoted literature and the arts through literary events,
writing workshops, and contests. One year after becoming a national title,
el ANDAR announces the first el ANDAR Prize for Literary Excellence and
takes its commitment to the arts to a national arena.
Writers can submit
works in either Spanish or English or a mix of both languages. Our goal
is to inspire young people and adults to write and to help build a more
beautiful and intelligent society by writing about Latino life and experiences
in the United States.
El Andar Prize for Literary Excellence II
2001 GUIDELINES
Please read carefully
Extended
Submission Deadline:
Must be received by December 31, 2001
For fiction, personal memoir and creative non-fiction categories:
- Limit
up to 4000 words
- Reading fee: $15 (one story
per reading fee)
For poetry:
- Up to 3 poems per reading
fee, any length
- Reading fee: $15
For the
Paula Award:
- Entrants must be 18 years
of age and under
- Submissions are FREE
- Submissions can be fiction,
personal memoir, creative non-fiction
(limit up to 4,000 words) or poetry (limit up to 3 poems, any length)
- One submission only per
literary genre for the Paula Award
For all
categories:
- First place is $1,000; second
place is $200.
- If possible, please submit
the material on a diskette in MS Word or e-mail.
If submitting manuscripts, please send TWO
COPIES of each entry.
- Submissions may be written
either in Spanish and/or English and should relate to Latino life and
experiences.
- Only unpublished work will
be considered. Please DO NOT SUBMIT
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK.
- All judging is “blind,”
meaning judges will not be aware of an entrant’s name, age or address.
- All submissions should
include a separate cover sheet containing name, titles of entries, desired
categories of submission, address, and telephone number of the author
with biographical information. (Do not include name on the manuscript,
since judging is “blind.”)
- NO MANUSCRIPTS OR DISKETTES
WILL BE RETURNED, so authors are encouraged to keep duplicates of their
work.
- Entrants retain copyrights
to submitted works, but agree to allow el Andar to
publish entries once in its magazine and website.
- There may be categories
without winners. Not all prizes will be awarded if no suitable entry
is submitted in a particular category.
- El Andar reserves the right
to switch an entry into a different category if appropriate.
- At the judges’ discretion,
there may be two winners for a category, in which case the winners will
split the prize.
- Employees and staff of
el Andar are not eligible.
- The winning entries will be published in the Spring 2002 issue of el Andar Magazine and on the el Andar website at www.elandar.com.
Send submissions to
Literary Award
El Andar Publications
P.O. Box 7745
Santa Cruz, CA USA 95061
Contest participants may also subscribe to el ANDAR for only $10, a savings
of $8 over the regular one-year subscription rate of $18. Send separate
check for $10 with the word SUBSCRIPTION in the memo field.