Members Only
February 10, 2021 Deadline to submit your entries to Palomar District. Mail to Rosalia Zamora, Chairman. Clubs, please include the Writing Contest Coversheet with your member entries. Rosalia’s contact information is included on the following form. A completed and signed GFWC Creative Arts Waiver must be submitted with each entry. Two Categories- (1) Short Story and (2) Poetry. First Place Winners in each category will be forwarded by Palomar District Chairman to CFWC for judging. No student judging at the CFWC state level.
RULES FOR WRITING CONTEST:
• Authors must be dues-paying members of an active GFWC Club;
• Authors must be amateurs (earnings from writing may not exceed
$500 annually);
• Entries must be written between January 1, 2019 and December 31,
2020, providing a special allowance for two years of photographs for
the 2021 contests, since the 2020 writing contest was not held.;
• Entries may not have been published prior to the competition and
must be original works by the author;
• A signed GFWC Creative-Arts-Waiver must be included with each submission;
• Short stories are limited to 2,000 words;
• Poetry entries can be any style, with a minimum length of eight lines, and a maximum of 50 lines;
• One entry per member per category;
• Entries must be:
o Typed, double-spaced, printed on one side only;
o Have minimum margins of one inch on all four sides;
o On 8.5” x 11” paper.
• Entries must have the following on the top right-hand corner of each page:
o Author’s name, email address, mailing address, and phone number;
o Name of author’s GFWC Club and State Federation;
o Category;
o Title of Work.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND DISCLAIMER:
• Manuscripts will not be returned. Authors should keep a copy;
• By submitting your short story or poem to GFWC, you are providing GFWC with a royalty-freeperpetual license to use, reproduce, post, display, create derivative works, sell, license the work in anymedia known or later invented without limitation, for commercial or non-commercial purposes;
• A completed and signed GFWC Creative Arts Waiver must be submitted with each entry.
2021-22 Contest Information, Forms etc. (The following Document includes all contests…art, craft, photography and writing)
Members, please follow the GFWC Writing Contest Information for header template, spacing etc. Include a CFWC-GFWC Creative Art Waiver with your entries.
The Writing Contest is limited to members only.