The 2020 contest IS NOW CLOSED
Congratulations to everyone who entered!
Thank you to all for your interest and participation.
You can be proud of getting your work out there for others to read.
Thank you also to our judges for giving so generously of their
time and expertise. It's greatly appreciated.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!
Nonfiction Winners
First Place: Between Rocks and a Hard Place by Laura Savino
Second Place: Words in the Kitchen by Hana Haatainen-Caye
Third Place: The Bell by Maggie DeMaso
Novel Beginning Winners
First Place: The Healer of Geistville by Michele Malinchak
Second Place: Strange Fire by Joel Burcat
Third Place: Stolen Ember by Johanna Greenlaw
Poetry Winners
First Place: Mademoiselle Boissire Knitting by Elizabeth Bodien
Second Place: Laugh Lines by Susan Manchin
Third Place: No, My Friend, It Is Not by Amanda Span
Short Story Winners
First Place: Turn, Turn by Lynda Gene Rymond
Second Place: Resting Place by Gretchen Lockwood
Third Place: (tie)
The Keeper of Secrets by Paul Teese
Choices by David MacPherson
Welcome!
This is the permanent Pennwriters Annual Writing Contest site where you can electronically upload your entries each year. Please join us next year for the 2021 contest. The contest will open for submissions on January 1, 2021 at 12:00 AM EST and will close on January 31, 2021 at midnight EST. Entrants must be a Pennwriters member as of December 31, 2020.
NOTE: If you send in an entry prior to the opening date and time or after the closing date and time, your entry will be deleted and you forfeit your payment.
There are NO PAPER ENTRIES.
We only accept only electronic submissions of manuscripts for the contest.
Make sure to familiarize yourself with the Rules and Regulations before submitting.
If there are any problems, please contact the Writing Contest Coordinator here:
Email- WritingContestCoordinator@pennwriters.org
This is the permanent Pennwriters Annual Writing Contest site where you can electronically upload your entries each year. Please join us next year for the 2021 contest. The contest will open for submissions on January 1, 2021 at 12:00 AM EST and will close on January 31, 2021 at midnight EST. Entrants must be a Pennwriters member as of December 31, 2020.
NOTE: If you send in an entry prior to the opening date and time or after the closing date and time, your entry will be deleted and you forfeit your payment.
There are NO PAPER ENTRIES.
We only accept only electronic submissions of manuscripts for the contest.
Make sure to familiarize yourself with the Rules and Regulations before submitting.
If there are any problems, please contact the Writing Contest Coordinator here:
Email- WritingContestCoordinator@pennwriters.org