Preference is for submissions with narrow subject matter.

Fee: $10 for KWG members; $20 for nonmembers.

Judge: Julie Auer

Specific Guidelines: 1. Entry consists of one typed, double-spaced nonfiction essay of no more than 3,000 words. This year’s topic is hometown. The piece can relate to any hometown as long as it is the author's true hometown, which must be identified in the piece. Names may be changed. Since this is creative nonfiction, the piece should read more like a story than an essay, with a very strongly developed sense of place, and elements of conflict and character development (the author and/or any other persons in the story). The place does not necessarily have to feature the author; it can involve someone the author knew or knew about. Preference will be given to narrow subject matter--an event, an experience, or memory binding the author or another real character to the town or city, for good or bad, comedic or tragic, past or present.

2. Multiple submissions O.K. See General Guidelines.

Deadline: February 28.

Send your entries to:

The KWG Prize for Creative Nonfiction

The Knoxville Writers' Guild
 P.O. Box 10326
 Knoxville TN  37939 Read entries from previous contests.