The Literary Spa Memoir Contest

This contest invites unpublished, original memoirs.

Entrant Guidelines and Checklist

• Each entry requires a $35 entry fee.
• Make checks payable to First Coast Writers’ Festival, indicating “Memoir Contest” in the For line of the check.
• Mail entries to Writers’ Festival Contests, 4501 Capper Road, Jacksonville, FL 32218, ATTN Dr. Dana Thomas.
• Entries should include two copies of the manuscript’s first 100 (or so) pages.
• Each entry should be typed, double–spaced, with numbered pages.
• Entries should include a heading on the first page of the memoir indicating author’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address. For purposes of blind judging, the remaining pages should not include any portion of the author’s name.
• Entries should not be the author’s only or original copy as the Festival does not return eliminated entries or accept responsibility for entries lost in the mail.
• The entry must include two cover pages. The first should list the title, the author’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address, as well as a short biographical paragraph. The second should have only the title listed on it for purposes of blind judging.
• Current Florida Community College employees and Writers’ Festival Planning Committee members are not eligible for entry into the Writers’ Festival contests.
• Winning memoirs from past Writers’ Festival contests may not be resubmitted.

Prizes

• First Place - $200 and free submission to a literary agent.
• Second Place - $150