
You Can Still Enter 2012
KWG Literary Contests!

Enter KWG Literary Contests!
Join a longstanding East Tennessee literary tradition and enter the 2012 KWG Literary Contests! You can now begin submitting entries in six categories. The deadline for entries is midnight May 31.
The contests are:
The KWG Award for Fiction
(In memory of the late Knoxville author, Leslie Garrett).
The KWG Award for Poetry
(In memory of Libba Moore Gray).
The KWG Award for Creative Nonfiction
The Young Writers' Poetry Prize. (Open to all high school students in the Greater Knoxville Area of East Tennessee, grades 9-12.)
KWG Award for Novel Excerpts
KWG Award for One Act Play/ Script
Please click here to read the full guidelines.
Why Should I Enter A Literary Contest?
Ask Pamela Schoenewaldt! Click here.
Ask Cathy Kodra! Click here.
Ask Dale Mackey! Click here.
Ask Brooks Clark! Click here.
Ask Arthur J. Stewart! Click here.
Why should you enter a literary contest? There are lots of reasons.
Contests are open to everyone above the age of 18, with the following exceptions: Members of the KWG board of directors and contests committee may not submit entries to KWG competitions. Previous first-prize winners are barred from the contest they had won for one year.
Thanks, Contest Sponsors!
We appreciate the businesses and individuals who are sponsoring the 2012 Literary Contests. You can be a sponsor, too! To see a list of some of our sponsors, click here.
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KWG Writing Groups!KWG now has 16 active writing groups, with others forming all the time. If you are interested in being in a group or helping to form a new one, take a look at our Writing Groups page and speak to Terry Shaw, President. We are always interested in starting new groups. Writing groups are central to the Writers' Guild. Join one!
Check out all the Writing Groups--click here!
Watch Us on Community TV!
The Knoxville Writers' Guild has its own Community Television Show now airing at 9 p.m. each Thursday on CTV (Channel 12 in Knoxville). The show can also be watched online at http://ctvknox.org/
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NOTE: The Guild is a non-profit organization. To support writers, we have kept our membership fees low and unchanged for over 10 years. However, any donations to the work of the Guild are greatly appreciated. $10. $20. $30. $50. $100. $150. $200.
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