Silver Creek Writers Residency
There are presently no open calls for submissions.
What’s your wild west? Whether it's your
contemplation of wilderness landscapes, or your characters living wildly in the
new urban west, or a lyrical ride into the sunset of an open road, we
leave the interpretation up to you. Take your literary license and drive.
The Wild West Literary Contests are three separate contests: Short fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry. We will select three different winning applicants,
therefore each application must be for one genre only. You may apply seperately for another genre, but you
can only win in one. Send us your best work of publishable quality. By the
way, we love genre-breaking work; we merely ask that you respect the
"non" when submitting nonfiction.
Winners will be invited and expected to attend
and read their work at Boise's Storyfort, the friendliest lit fest in the West. Storyfort is
one of the many "forts" of Boise, Idaho's hip and huge Treefort
Music Fest, March 22-26, 2017.
Winners also receive:
- $300 cash prize
- Discount pass to Treefort Music Fest and the many "Forts" (from Alefort to Yogafort)
- "Micro-residency" at Silver Creek Writers Residency in beautiful Sun Valley, ID (7-10 days, Fall 2017)
- Invitation to "Prefort" lit jam in Sun Valley, ID (Feb 24-25, 2017)
- Travel grants may be available
Submissions must be made through Submittable.com. Work must be previously unpublished. Fiction and nonfiction limited to 5,000 words, double spaced. Poetry limited to ten poems and 15 pages. In the cover letter field to your Submittable.com application, include the names and contact info of two professional references. Your name should appear nowhere on your manuscript. Identify the genre under your title on page one of the manuscript. Please use pagination. Contest deadline is 2/15/17 and winners will be announced in late February 2017 via email. Application fee is $15.00, nonrefundable. (Note that when you upload your mansucript to Submittable.com, you may have to include ".doc" or ".docx" in the file name.)
Contact info@silvercreekwr.com if you have questions. And be sure to visit silvercreekwr.org and Treefortmusicfest.com to learn more.