Attention Dayton Writers: AWW/DDN Short Story Contest Announced!

Attention, local writers: We’ve opened the call for entries for our 17th annual writing contest, held in partnership with the Antioch Writers’ Workshop.

The AWW is providing scholarships to this summer’s workshop as prizes for the contest’s top writers.

Top awards: Best in Show from either teen or adult categories will win a full scholarship to the Summer Program, July 612. First place in teen and in adult wins a $125 scholarship toward the Summer Program. First-place winner of the youth category will receive a $25 gift certificate to Books & Co.

The best in show and first-place winners will be featured in an article in the Dayton Daily News. Other top winners will be listed in the Dayton Daily News.

Top winning entries will be published on DaytonDailyNews.com and on the workshop’s site.

Rules, deadlines

Genre: Fiction only. No memoirs or essays.

Length: 1,800-word maximum.

Entries: Stories must be original and unpublished. Writers may submit only one story. Stories must be typed, double-spaced and stapled in the upper left corner. No binders. Hard copies only. Manuscripts will not be returned. Because of the volume, we cannot confirm receipt of individual entries over the phone.

Cover page: Each entry must have a cover page with title, writer’s name, age, full address, email address and daytime, evening and cellphone numbers.

Age categories: Youth (12 years old and younger); Teen (13 to 18 years old); and Adult (19 and older). Entrants must live in the Dayton Daily News circulation area.

Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by April 10, 2013. Entry fees: None. Mail entries to: Dayton Daily News/Antioch Writers’ Workshop Creative Writing Contest, c/o Antioch University Midwest, 900 Dayton St., Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Winners will be notified around May 3.

For more information, email sshort@antiochwritersworkshop.com or Michelle.Fong@coxinc.com.

Last Day to Register for the Spring One-Day Seminar!

Online registration for the 2013 Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar, which will take place on March 30, is now available.

Participants can register for the workshop at our website.

If you would like to receive a printed Registration Form, email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com and put Spring One-Day Seminar Registration Request in your subject line. Be sure to include your name and address in your email. Registration forms can be mailed to:

Antioch Writers' Workshop
c/o Antioch University Midwest
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

This seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

 

The following is the Spring One-Day Seminar Schedule: 

• 8:15-9:00 AM -- Check in and light continental breakfast
• 9:00-10:00 AM -- Panel by Andrea, Katrina, and Kristina: "Mythbusting Children's Literature"
• 10:15-11:30 AM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Developing Characters*"
• 11:30-12:30 PM -- Boxed Lunches (provided)
• 12:30-1:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Setting and World Building"
• 2:00-3:15 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Plotting"
• 3:30-4:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Publishing and Pitching Tips"
• 4:30-6:00 PM -- Panel by Andrea Cheng, Katrina Kittle, and Kristina McBride: Q&A with all attendees, followed by book signing and reception with light refreshments. 

Just a Couple Days Left to Register for "Writing for Young Readers"

Online registration for the 2013 Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar, which will take place on March 30, is now available.

Participants can register for the workshop at our website.

If you would like to receive a printed Registration Form, email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com and put Spring One-Day Seminar Registration Request in your subject line. Be sure to include your name and address in your email. Registration forms can be mailed to:

Antioch Writers' Workshop
c/o Antioch University Midwest
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

This seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

 

The following is the Spring One-Day Seminar Schedule: 

• 8:15-9:00 AM -- Check in and light continental breakfast
• 9:00-10:00 AM -- Panel by Andrea, Katrina, and Kristina: "Mythbusting Children's Literature"
• 10:15-11:30 AM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Developing Characters*"
• 11:30-12:30 PM -- Boxed Lunches (provided)
• 12:30-1:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Setting and World Building"
• 2:00-3:15 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Plotting"
• 3:30-4:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Publishing and Pitching Tips"
• 4:30-6:00 PM -- Panel by Andrea Cheng, Katrina Kittle, and Kristina McBride: Q&A with all attendees, followed by book signing and reception with light refreshments. 

Just Days Left to Register for Spring One-Day Seminar

For writers interested in writing Children's, Middle Grade, and Young Adult books, the Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar on writing for young readers may be just what you need to get started or take the next steps with your current project.

The Spring One-Day Seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

The seminar will focus on writing craft, tips, and techniques for writing for young readers. Participants do not need to have writing experience; however, participants who have begun or completed work for young readers will also benefit from this seminar and learn techniques that will help them improve, revise or complete their work-in-progress.

Participants will learn from all instructors during opening and closing panels, but will also choose ONE of three tracks and focus on learning with one track leader. Participants may switch throughout the day:

Children’s (chapter books) Track

Andrea Cheng

This track is for writers who are interested in learning about writing for chapter book readers approximately aged 7-9 years old. Seminar leader Andrea Cheng grew up as the child of Hungarian immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating with a BA in English from Cornell University, she went to Switzerland, where she apprenticed to a bookbinder, attended a school of bookbinding called The Centro del Bel Libro, and learned French. Upon her return, she went back to Cornell to study Chinese and earned her MS in linguistics. She now teaches English as a Second Language at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and writes children’s books including Grandfather Counts, Marika, The Key Collection, Honeysuckle House, Where the Steps Were, The Bear Makers, and Brushing Mom’s Hair.

Middle Grade Track

Katrina Kittle

This track is for writers who are interested in learning about writing for Middle Grade readers approximately aged 10-14 years old. Seminar leader Katrina Kittle attended Ohio University as an undergraduate and later earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University in Louisville. She taught high school and middle school English and theatre for eleven years, and she has also worked as a house cleaner, a veterinary assistant, a children’s theatre director, a costumer, and as case management support for the AIDS Resource Center (formerly AIDS Foundation Miami Valley). Katrina is the author of award-winning books for adults: Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers, and The Blessings of the Animals. Katrina’s first "tween" (Middle Grade) novel, Reasons to Be Happy, was published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky in October 2011.

Young Adult Track

Kristina McBride

This track is for writers who are interested in learning about writing for Young Adult readers approximately aged 14-17 years old. Kristina McBride attended Wright State University and was a high school English teacher and year book adviser before turning to writing full time. Her debut Young Adult novel, The Tension of Opposites was published by Edgmont in 2010 and her next Young Adult novel, also published by Edgmont, One Moment released in June 2012.





For more information, registration, and a detailed schedule of the Spring One-Day Seminar, visit our website or email us.

Registration Information for the Spring One-Day Seminar

Online registration for the 2013 Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar, which will take place on March 30, is now available.

Participants can register for the workshop at our website.

If you would like to receive a printed Registration Form, email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com and put Spring One-Day Seminar Registration Request in your subject line. Be sure to include your name and address in your email. Registration forms can be mailed to:

Antioch Writers' Workshop
c/o Antioch University Midwest
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

This seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

 

The following is the Spring One-Day Seminar Schedule: 

• 8:15-9:00 AM -- Check in and light continental breakfast
• 9:00-10:00 AM -- Panel by Andrea, Katrina, and Kristina: "Mythbusting Children's Literature"
• 10:15-11:30 AM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Developing Characters*"
• 11:30-12:30 PM -- Boxed Lunches (provided)
• 12:30-1:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Setting and World Building"
• 2:00-3:15 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Plotting"
• 3:30-4:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Publishing and Pitching Tips"
• 4:30-6:00 PM -- Panel by Andrea Cheng, Katrina Kittle, and Kristina McBride: Q&A with all attendees, followed by book signing and reception with light refreshments. 

REMINDER: Spring One-Day Seminar -- Writing for Young Readers

For writers interested in writing Children's, Middle Grade, and Young Adult books, the Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar on writing for young readers may be just what you need to get started or take the next steps with your current project.

The Spring One-Day Seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

The seminar will focus on writing craft, tips, and techniques for writing for young readers. Participants do not need to have writing experience; however, participants who have begun or completed work for young readers will also benefit from this seminar and learn techniques that will help them improve, revise or complete their work-in-progress.

Participants will learn from all instructors during opening and closing panels, but will also choose ONE of three tracks and focus on learning with one track leader. Participants may switch throughout the day:

Children’s (chapter books) Track

Andrea Cheng

This track is for writers who are interested in learning about writing for chapter book readers approximately aged 7-9 years old. Seminar leader Andrea Cheng grew up as the child of Hungarian immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating with a BA in English from Cornell University, she went to Switzerland, where she apprenticed to a bookbinder, attended a school of bookbinding called The Centro del Bel Libro, and learned French. Upon her return, she went back to Cornell to study Chinese and earned her MS in linguistics. She now teaches English as a Second Language at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and writes children’s books including Grandfather Counts, Marika, The Key Collection, Honeysuckle House, Where the Steps Were, The Bear Makers, and Brushing Mom’s Hair.

Middle Grade Track

Katrina Kittle

This track is for writers who are interested in learning about writing for Middle Grade readers approximately aged 10-14 years old. Seminar leader Katrina Kittle attended Ohio University as an undergraduate and later earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University in Louisville. She taught high school and middle school English and theatre for eleven years, and she has also worked as a house cleaner, a veterinary assistant, a children’s theatre director, a costumer, and as case management support for the AIDS Resource Center (formerly AIDS Foundation Miami Valley). Katrina is the author of award-winning books for adults: Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers, and The Blessings of the Animals. Katrina’s first "tween" (Middle Grade) novel, Reasons to Be Happy, was published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky in October 2011.

Young Adult Track

Kristina McBride

This track is for writers who are interested in learning about writing for Young Adult readers approximately aged 14-17 years old. Kristina McBride attended Wright State University and was a high school English teacher and year book adviser before turning to writing full time. Her debut Young Adult novel, The Tension of Opposites was published by Edgmont in 2010 and her next Young Adult novel, also published by Edgmont, One Moment released in June 2012.





For more information, registration, and a detailed schedule of the Spring One-Day Seminar, visit our website or email us.

REMINDER: Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop Tomorrow, March 10

Antioch Writers' Workshop and Books & Co are offering the next Free Writers' Workshop on March 10, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at Books & Co at The Greene. The topic will be "Self-editing/Grammar Boot camp!” led by Kate Geiselman and Rebecca Kuder.

  

The seminar will aid writers in need help polishing a manuscript (fiction or nonfiction) for submission to a publication, agent, or contest. The “Self-editing/Grammar Boot camp” will give writers tips to simplify the process and maybe even make it fun!  

 Kate Geiselman

             

Kate Geiselman's essays have appeared at Salon.com, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere online. Several of her essays about teaching have aired on NPR stations on The Story with Dick Gordon, an American Public Media production. Her first short story, "She's not There," was the winner of the Dayton Daily News/Antioch Writer's Workshop short story contest, and her first novel is in progress. She teaches writing at Sinclair Community College.







 

 Rebecca Kuder

 Rebecca Kuder is the Creative Writing Concentration Chair at the Individualized MA program at Antioch University Midwest (AUM). She has taught and designed courses in creative writing, curriculum design, and academic writing. Rebecca has published several stories, essays, and poems. While currently seeking a publisher for her novel, The Watery Girl, Rebecca is finishing a new novel. 

  

Join Kate and Rebecca to learn more about the self-editing process at Books & Co at The Green on March 10 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.. No reservations are required for the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, but expressed intention to attend is appreciated. Call Books & Co at The Greene at 937- 429-6302.

  

For more information about Antioch Writers' Workshop or the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, visit http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com.   

Register for the Spring One-Day Seminar!

Online registration for the 2013 Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar, which will take place on March 30, is now available.

Participants can register for the workshop at our website.

If you would like to receive a printed Registration Form, email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com and put Spring One-Day Seminar Registration Request in your subject line. Be sure to include your name and address in your email. Registration forms can be mailed to:

Antioch Writers' Workshop
c/o Antioch University Midwest
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

This seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

 

The following is the Spring One-Day Seminar Schedule: 

• 8:15-9:00 AM -- Check in and light continental breakfast
• 9:00-10:00 AM -- Panel by Andrea, Katrina, and Kristina: "Mythbusting Children's Literature"
• 10:15-11:30 AM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Developing Characters*"
• 11:30-12:30 PM -- Boxed Lunches (provided)
• 12:30-1:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Setting and World Building"
• 2:00-3:15 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Plotting"
• 3:30-4:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Publishing and Pitching Tips"
• 4:30-6:00 PM -- Panel by Andrea Cheng, Katrina Kittle, and Kristina McBride: Q&A with all attendees, followed by book signing and reception with light refreshments. 

Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop March 10

Antioch Writers' Workshop and Books & Co are offering the next Free Writers' Workshop on March 10, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at Books & Co at The Greene. The topic will be "Self-editing/Grammar Boot camp!” led by Kate Geiselman and Rebecca Kuder.

  

The seminar will aid writers in need help polishing a manuscript (fiction or nonfiction) for submission to a publication, agent, or contest. The “Self-editing/Grammar Boot camp” will give writers tips to simplify the process and maybe even make it fun!  

 Kate Geiselman

             

Kate Geiselman's essays have appeared at Salon.com, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere online. Several of her essays about teaching have aired on NPR stations on The Story with Dick Gordon, an American Public Media production. Her first short story, "She's not There," was the winner of the Dayton Daily News/Antioch Writer's Workshop short story contest, and her first novel is in progress. She teaches writing at Sinclair Community College.







 

 Rebecca Kuder

 Rebecca Kuder is the Creative Writing Concentration Chair at the Individualized MA program at Antioch University Midwest (AUM). She has taught and designed courses in creative writing, curriculum design, and academic writing. Rebecca has published several stories, essays, and poems. While currently seeking a publisher for her novel, The Watery Girl, Rebecca is finishing a new novel. 

  

Join Kate and Rebecca to learn more about the self-editing process at Books & Co at The Green on March 10 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.. No reservations are required for the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, but expressed intention to attend is appreciated. Call Books & Co at The Greene at 937- 429-6302.

  

For more information about Antioch Writers' Workshop or the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, visit http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com.   

Online Registration for "Writing for Young Readers"

Online registration for the 2013 Antioch Writers' Workshop Spring One-Day Seminar, which will take place on March 30, is now available.

Participants can register for the workshop at our website.

If you would like to receive a printed Registration Form, email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com and put Spring One-Day Seminar Registration Request in your subject line. Be sure to include your name and address in your email. Registration forms can be mailed to:

Antioch Writers' Workshop
c/o Antioch University Midwest
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

This seminar will be held Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Antioch University Midwest (900 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, OH). The total cost is $150.00 ($75 of this is a nonrefundable registration fee), which covers instruction as well as continental breakfast and box lunch.

 

The following is the Spring One-Day Seminar Schedule: 

• 8:15-9:00 AM -- Check in and light continental breakfast
• 9:00-10:00 AM -- Panel by Andrea, Katrina, and Kristina: "Mythbusting Children's Literature"
• 10:15-11:30 AM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Developing Characters*"
• 11:30-12:30 PM -- Boxed Lunches (provided)
• 12:30-1:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Setting and World Building"
• 2:00-3:15 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Plotting"
• 3:30-4:45 PM -- Breakout Sessions*: "Publishing and Pitching Tips"
• 4:30-6:00 PM -- Panel by Andrea Cheng, Katrina Kittle, and Kristina McBride: Q&A with all attendees, followed by book signing and reception with light refreshments. 

Final Day to Submit to Sinclair Community College Writing Contest

Sinclair Community College and Antioch Writers' Workshop have teamed up to offer a writing contest with winning prizes that include tuition to the week long 2013 Summer Antioch Writers Workshop. Entries must be postmarked or entered here on Submittable by March 1, 2013.

Eligibility: Open to those writers who have received no payment for published manuscripts in the category they are entering (payment includes free copies of journals in which their work has appeared). Previous first and second place winners are ineligible to enter categories in which they have won. They may, however, enter other categories. Sinclair faculty, staff and spouses are
ineligible.

Winners: The winning entry in each category will receive $60. Second place in each category will receive $30. Third place in each category will receive $20. The above winners along with those receiving honorable mention will receive certificates suitable for framing. Contest winners will be presented awards during a March ceremony at Sinclair Community College. Winners need not be present; awards will be mailed. A final award to the winner of all categories will be made on behalf of the Antioch Writers' Workshop and includes a full tuition waiver to their week long workshop July 6-13 2013. Other first place winners will receive a scholarship to the Saturday AWW or may use their partial scholarship toward the full week. Check it out at:  http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com/

Categories
Adult: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction
High School: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction

Deadline
Entries must be postmarked or entered here on Submittable by March 1, 2013.

Format
All entries should be typed (double-spaced for prose entries only). Full name and address should appear in the upper left corner of each entry with title of the manuscript. Place last name and title on the top of each subsequent page.

Length
• Prose must not exceed 5,000 words.
• Poetry must not exceed 100 lines per poem.

Judging
Members of the Sinclair Community College faculty will select the winning entries. Winners will be notified by phone in March.

Fees
If submitting online through Submittable: Fees are $7 per adult entry; $5 per high school entry. However, five  poems will be considered one entry. As many manuscripts as an applicant wishes may be submitted, along with appropriate fees.
If submitting through the mail: Fees are $5.00 per adult entry, and $4.00 per high school entry. One check made out to Sinclair Community College will be sufficient to cover all entries.
Mail to:
Professor Rebecca Morean, Director
Creative Writing Contest
Sinclair Community College
444 West Third Street, Room 5133
Dayton, Ohio 45402-1460