One of the most popular aspects of the annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference that is held each fall in Rockville is the opportunity for emerging writers to produce works for the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story contests. Each year, a judged contest is held for students who reside or attend school in the City of Rockville and an open contest is held for anyone living in Maryland, Virginia or Washington, D.C. Award winners are announced at the conference, and the winners get the opportunity to meet the honoree of the conference. Past honorees have included some of the greatest writers in America. Winning entries from the previous year are printed in the conference’s program. Both contests are sponsored by the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc. and supported by the City of Rockville, Montgomery College, Gazette Newspapers, Rockville Cultural Arts Commission, Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, Ltd. and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. The following are the rules for each contest, with details of how entries can be submitted: - High school students who reside in or attend school within the corporate limits of the City of Rockville are invited to submit short stories.
- Top prize is $250 and an invitation to speak about the story at the Ninth Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference award ceremony in October at Montgomery College in Rockville.
- The winning entry will be printed in the 2006 conference program.
- Three runner-up prizes of $100 each will be awarded.
Rules for Entries - Entries must be typed, double-spaced, no longer than 3,000 words, no shorter than 1,500 words, and commercially unpublished.
- Entries should have a beginning, middle and end in which the protagonist resolves a conflict or achieves an awareness he/she did not have before.
- There are no restrictions on subject matter.
- All entries must include a cover sheet that includes the writer’s name, address and telephone number, as well as the writer’s school, grade and teacher’s name. The writer’s name should NOT appear on subsequent pages of the story. The cover sheets are removed on receipt at Rockville City Hall and each entry is assigned a number before sent tothe judges. All entries will be assigned for judging. All entries MUST follow the above mentioned format.
- Entries must be postmarked no later than July 15, 2004.
- There is no entry fee.
- Entries will not be returned.
- Entries should be sent to F. Scott Fitzgerald Student Short Story Contest,
c/o Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850.
- Only winners will be notified the week of September 18, 2004.
- Area writers are invited to submit their short stories for the Eleventh Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest.
- First prize is $1,000 plus an invitation to speak briefly about the story at the Eleventh Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference award ceremony in October 2006 at Montgomery College in Rockville.
- The winning entry will be printed in the 2006 conference program.
- Three runner-up prizes of $200 each will be awarded at the conference.
Rules for Entries - Only residents of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. are eligible.
- There are no restrictions on subject matter.
- Entries must be typed in 10-point or 12-point-sized letters, double-spaced, no more than 26 lines per page with one-inch margins. All pages must be numbered.
- All stories must be less than 3,000 words and unpublished.
- Entries must be stapled or have a paper clip in the upper left-hand corner.
- Writer’s name should not appear on the first page. Place a title on the first page.
- All entries must include a cover sheet that includes writer’s name, address and telephone number. The writer’s name should NOT appear on subsequent pages of the story.
- The cover sheets shall be removed on receipt at Rockville City Hall, and each entry will be assigned a number before being sent to the judges. All entries will be judged.
- All entries MUST follow the aforementioned format.
- Entries will not be returned.
- Entries must be postmarked no later than July 15, 2004.
- The entry fee is $25 per entry. Please make the check payable to F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc. (Entry fee is waived for FSF Literary Conference members.)
- Entries and check should be sent to F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference Contest, c/o Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850.
- Only winners will be notified the week of September 18, 2004.
For more information on either contest, call 301-309-9461 or visit http://www.peerlessrockville.org/FSF/index.htm . |
