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Faulkner Wisdom Creative Writing Contest

Ages: High School, Undergraduate, Graduate, Educator, Professional

Type: Submission

Scope: National

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The competition is for previously unpublished work only. Self-published and print-on-demand books are considered published unless authors can present current, precise documentation that less than 500 copies have been sold. If a self-published manuscript should win a category, the cash prize offered for that category will be decreased by one third. Considered as published and ineligible are books, stories, essays, and poetry previously published in their entirety on the Internet.

Please pay special attention to labeling your entries. We do not read entries in any category without proper labeling.

Entries are accepted now in eight categories (see below): Novel, Novella, book-length Narrative Non-Fiction, Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story by a High School Student. Overall goals of the competition are to seek out new, talented writers and assist them in finding literary agents and, ultimately, publishers for their work.

Website: https://faulknersociety.org/william-faulkner-wisdom-competition/competition-guidelines/

Managing Organization: The Faulkner Society

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William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition

A competitive talent search open to all writing in English, the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is for previously unpublished work. Entries are accepted in seven categories: Novel, Novella, Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story by a High School Student. Overall goals of the competition are to seek out new, talented writers and assist them in finding literary agents and, ultimately, publishers for their work.

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5. Faulkner Wisdom Competition: NOVEL IN PROGRESS

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Novel in Progress competition fee is $35.00 + $5.00 processing fee. Please refer to https://faulknersociety.org/william-faulkner-wisdom-competition/competition-guidelines/ for complete competition guidelines.

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Category Five – Novel-in-Progress – Prize: $1,500

This award, created and originally funded by Edgar winner Julie Smith in memory of the late Evans Harrington Grant, a creative writing professor at the University of Mississippi, is now funded by other private individuals. Requirements: highly polished one-page synopsis, and first few chapters or first 25 pages. Entry must not exceed 7,500 words, including the one-page synopsis. Entries may be any form of novel, including literary, mainstream, or genre. Entries exceeding 7,500 words will not be accepted.

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Deadline:  July 15, 2024 Winner:  $2000 Second Place:  Honorable Mention Certificate

• $50 entry fee for each entry
• The Faulkner Literary Committee reserves the First Rights to publish a “teaser” portion of the winning novel on our official website, after which the rights revert back to the author.
• All entries must be original, unpublished works typed in 12 pt. font, double spaced in English. No plagiarism will be accepted.
• Entries should be works of prose from 50,000 to 150,000 words in length. (Approximate) Longer works will be taken into consideration.

By mail: Send two paper copies of each submission AND a digital PDF or Word version on a disc or thumb drive. Each entry must have a cover page listing the title, author’s name, address, email, phone number, how you paid and what name you paid under if different from the author. The other pages should only contain the title of the entry and the page numbers and NOT the author’s name. The entry fee for each entry MUST be included. If paying by check, make out to Faulkner Literary Committee. Mail to : Faulkner Literary Committee Union County Heritage Museum P. O. Box 657 New Albany, MS 38652

Online: Submit online using the form to the right. You may use Paypal or a credit card.

• Entry should be received by July 15, 2024.
• All entries are final, no revisions accepted.
• Entries are judged by trained academia and the judges’ decision is final.
• Only the winners will be notified by email or mail.
• Winners will be announced at the Faulkner Literary Luncheon on September 27, 2024, at the First Methodist Church in New Albany, MS., the birthplace of William Faulkner.
• Mailed entries will only be returned if an envelope, with proper postage affixed, is included with your entry.
• Failure to comply with any contest guidelines may result in your submission being disqualified.

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William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition

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Last year this scholarship received 2,044 applicant(s). $17,750 was awarded to 8 applicant(s).

Scholarship Description

Prizes for unpublished manuscripts written in English. One prize awarded in each category: $7500, novel; $2500, novella; $2000, book-length narrative non-fiction; $1,500, novel-in-progress; $1500, short story; $750, essay; $750, poem; $750 high school short story-student author, $250 sponsoring teacher. Manuscripts must be submitted by e-mail; entry forms and accompanying entry fee ranging from $10 for high school category to $40 for novel must be submitted hard copy by snail mail. For more information, please check: https://faulknersociety.org/

Eligibility Requirements

• Aged between 15 and 80 years old
• Type of institution award is open to: two-year college
• Award is available to U.S. citizens
• Award is available to Canadian citizens
• Award is available to citizens of countries other than the U.S. and Canada.

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• Application form required
• Application fee required

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Donor: Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society

PAFS is a non-profit literary organization providing realistic assistance to writers and high quality literary programming for the general reading public. Major projects are the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and the multi-discipline arts festival, Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans.

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NOCCA Creative Writing Students Recognized By International Short Story Contest

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William Faulkner-William Wisdom Contest

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) is proud to announce that several of its Creative Writing students have received recognition in the international William Faulkner-William Wisdom Short Story Writing Competition. NOCCA students received the winner (Adia Heisser) and first runner-up (Kimberly Pollard, not pictured) awards as well as many finalists and semifinalists.

Students include (l-r):

Bottom Row Seated

Taylor Triplett                         11 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70122, Finalist

Claudia Leger                          12 th Grade Northshore High, Slidell-70461,Finalist

Clara Souvignier                      11 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70117, Semifinalist

Middle Row Seated

Genevieve Lovern                   11 th Grade Fontainebleau High, Abita Springs-70420, Finalist

Eleanor Stern                          12 th Grade Benjamin Franklin, New Orleans-70118, Finalist

Megan Bott                             11 th Grade Haynes Academy, Metairie-70003, Semifinalist

Adia Heisser                            12 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70117, Winner

Alexandra Gracen Hendon     12 th Grade Fontainebleau High, Mandeville-70471, Finalist

Layne Kieschnick                    12 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70117, Finalist         

Back Row Standing

Sarah Rolinski                         10 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70433, Finalist

Jordan Blanchard                    10 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70131, Finalist

Leah Bordlee                           12 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70131, Semifinalist

Siobhan Kelly                          11 th Grade NOCCA Academic Studio, New Orleans-70119, Semifinalist

For more information on the competition and the sponsoring agencies the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and the Words of Music, please visit www.wordsandmusic.org.

Kathryn Brackett

Honors and Awards

• WOW! Women on Writing, Flash Fiction Contest, Runner Up, Winter 2022
• WOW! Women on Writing, Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention, Fall 2021
• The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novella, Semi-Finalist, 2021
• The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Essay, Finalist, 2019
• She Writes Press, STEP Scholarship, Novel Among the Top 5 Finalists, 2018
• Short Story America Prize, Honorable Mention, 2018
• The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel, Semi-Finalist, 2017 and 2018
• Short Story America Prize, Finalist, 2017 
• The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novella, Finalist, 2016
• The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Short Story Finalist, 2015 
• Gemini Magazine , Short Story Contest, Notable Mention, 2012
• Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award, Emrys Journal, 2012
• Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Journal of the Stars, Honorable Mention, 2011
• WordHustler's Page to Screen Story Contest, Third Place, 2011 (Work judged by Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants )
• Memoirs Contest, Third Place, The Writers' Workshop, 2009 
• Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Awards, Second Place, SC Writers Workshop, 2008 
• SCC Celebrates the Arts Competition, First Place, 2006 
• Story Nomination, Best New American Voices , 2006 
• A&S African American Summer Research Grant, 2004 & 2005 
• K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship, 2003-2004 
• Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2003 
• And others... 

Publications

Wow - women on writing contest, short story america anthology volume vii.

"Letting Go"

(Runner Up, Winter Flash Fiction Contest 2022)

Tales from the Moonlit Path

"The Rebound"

(February 2022)

"This Kind of Heartbreak"

You can purchase your copy here .

Short Story America Anthology Volume VI

"Love Me Like You Used To" 

(2017) 

You can purchase a copy here .

Emrys Journal

Dark fire fiction.

  "The Buck" 

(Volume 29, Spring 2012)

Winner of the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award  

( Issue 54 ,  Halloween 2011) 

Waccamaw Journal

Mythium: journal of contemporary literature.

  "Places Like This"

 (Spring 2011) 

  "The Great Flood" 

(Volume 3, Summer 2011)  

Expecting Goodness & Other Stories

"Girl Talk"  

Stories chosen and edited by C. Michael Curtis, long-time fiction editor of The Atlantic . 

*This book was also a runner-up for best book of      short fiction in North America in the 2010 IPPY Awards and won for Best Film in the 2012 Expecting Good Short Film Festival.

The Film - The Widower's Pearls (Adaptation of "Girl Talk")

The widower's pearls.

Watch the short film based off the short story "Girl Talk," starring Elijah Chester, Madison Nolte, Olivia Chester, Zoe Clarke, Morgan Monnig, and Coty Galloway. Nolte won an award for Best Actress in the performance. 

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