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Announcing Contest One: “Spark”

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See the contest page for full details or to learn how to enter!

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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

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Grand Prize

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

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.

An Open Letter To Our Friends

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Quote startI am committed to the idea that all contributors should be paid for their writing—whether they are experienced professionals or first-time submitters.Quote end  
— Brian Lewis, Editor-in-Chief

Dear Friend,

As Spark: A Creative Anthology enters the final hours of its Kickstarter fundraiser, please consider pledging a dollar or two and sharing the link with others. A pledge as low as $1 helps us reach our goal, and just $4 secures you an eBook copy of Volume I. Higher pledges come with rewards such as personal critiques and copies of the original artwork we will be using for the covers of our first volumes. Remember: Kickstarter operates on an “all or nothing” model: if we do not reach (or exceed) our goal, no pledges are collected and we get nothing.

Spark was founded with the goal of providing a high-quality market where emerging writers are published alongside established authors and poets. To maintain that high quality, I am committed to the idea that every contributor should be paid for their writing—whether they are experienced professionals or first-time submitters.

Unfortunately, while I am funding this project myself, I am only able to offer token and semi-professional payments. That’s just not enough. When you choose to support Spark: A Creative Anthology, not only are you getting great writing, you enable Spark to pay its contributors the professional rates I know they deserve.

Please take a minute to watch and share our Project Update video on Kickstarter or YouTube, read and share one of the recent news articles about Spark, and make your pledge at http://SparkAnthology.org/support today.

Sincerely,
Brian Lewis, Editor-in-Chief
Spark: A Creative Anthology
http://SparkAnthology.org/support
editor@sparkanthology.org