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Guidelines

Your writing prompt for this contest is the single word spark. Contest One awards prizes for poetry and prose.

Prose includes both fiction and creative nonfiction, but we have not divided the category further because we believe that well-written creative nonfiction should tell a story so well that the result is indistinguishable from fiction.

Poetry includes all styles, meters, and rhyme schemes, or may be free-form.

Awards

Grand Prize

We will award one Grand Prize for poetry, and one for prose. Each of the two Grand Prize winners will receive:

• US$500.00
• Publication in Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume II
• One-year subscription to Poets & Writers Magazine
• Two-year subscription to Duotrope
• Lifetime Premium Membership at Scribophile

Second Place

We will award one Second Place prize for poetry, and one for prose. Each of the two Second Place winners will receive:

• US$100.00
• One-year subscription to Duotrope
• Lifetime Premium Membership at Scribophile

Third Place

We will award one Third Place prize for poetry, and one for prose. Each of the two Third Place winners will receive:

• One-year subscription to Duotrope
• One-year Premium Membership at Scribophile

Notes

This contest is not endorsed, sponsored by, or affiliated with Duotrope. This prize was selected by Spark as a tool we admire and feel would be useful to contest winners, as it has been to us.

The Lifetime and One-year Scribophile Premium Memberships were donated by Scribophile.