The annual Soul-Making Literary Competition is open to everyone, everywhere and looks for original, freshly creative and finely crafted works that embraces all creative interpretations of English poet, John Keats' statement:

"Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making"

SOUL, in general, in many religions and philosophies, is conceived as the animating and vital spiritual principle in human beings; an inner, immaterial element that, together with the material body, constitutes the human individual. MAKING is the act of one that makes; the process of coming into being; of realizing potential.

The Soul-Making Literary Competition invites multifarious works that address soul-making in innovative and expanded expressions.

Categories of competition include: Poetry, Short Story, Creative Nonfiction, Novel Excerpt, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Adult Prose, Adult Poetry, Humor, Essay, and Environmental Futures: http://www.soulmakingcontest.us/page3.html

Rules and guidelines: http://www.soulmakingcontest.us/page2.html

Prizes of $100, $50, and $25. Entry Fee: $5 per entry. Deadline Nov. 30, 2010. Previously published works OK.