Kansas Authors Club Literary
Contest
Theme
contest pays $50, $25 and $15, with two unpaid honorable mentions. All other
categories will be awarded three places: $25, $15, and $10, with two unpaid
honorable mentions.
Prose
categories are: Theme Contest: Writing Across Kansas: A Sense of Place (fiction
or nonfiction), Humor (fiction or nonfiction) - Limit 1,000 words, Memoir or
Inspirational (nonfiction) - Limit 1,500 words, Flash Fiction - Limit 500 words,
Stories Written for Teenagers (ages 13-19, fiction or nonfiction), - Limit 1,000
words, Short Story (fiction) - Limit 1,500 words, Playwriting (fiction or non-fiction)
– A total of four pages for Act 1, Scene 1 and additional information (can be
single-spaced), First Chapter of a Book (fiction or nonfiction) – Limit 2,000
words.
Poetry
categories are: Theme Contest: Writing
Across Kansas: A Sense of Place, Classical Poetry, Free Verse: 40-line limit, Narrative
Poetry: 40-line limit, Whimsy: 20-line
limit, Japanese Poetry, Performance Poetry: no longer than 3 minutes, New Poets:
40-line limit.
Entry fee:
$8 for nonmembers
Deadline - June 15, 2020