Hi there, SFWA members,

SFWA is thrilled to announce that Jeff Dorn has returned as our Contest Director!

He has a list of Topics which will be posted shortly. 

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He is also reinstating the monthly "Merit Award" as he did in the past. This time, the award will be an antique British shilling. Not the new coinage. These bear the image of George V, grandson of Queen Victoria. The great-grandfather of the current reigning monarch, King Charles III.

I get a tingly feeling to think of the possible history of these coins.

Some of these same shilling coins (minted from 1910 to 1936), when shiny and new, may have graced the palms of  such titans of literature as George Orwell, Agatha Christie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, Beatrix Potter, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne Du Maurier, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and so many others! Maybe they even bought a pen, a sheaf of foolscap paper, or a bottle of ink with it!

Submissions must be received no later than our monthly meeting. You can email your submissions to at this link: Jeffrey Dorn.

Winners will be announced at the following  monthly meeting and will be presented with a beautiful certificate. The Special Merit Award will be announced at that time. 

First place winner may also claim a prize of up to $25 toward the entry fee for submission of the winning work to any major contest of the author's choosing, national or international. Winner must show the contest director the contest submission receipt to claim the $25 from the treasurer within 60 days of award date. We do not publish winning entries without the author's consent, to preserve its "unpublished" status for contest submission.

Submission fees:
One article $3, two articles $5, and three articles $7.

Fee is $5 for any piece of more than 10 pages.  All entry fees are non-refundable.

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New topics and prompts will be posted soon.