2008 Winter Solstice Contest Guidelines
Second Annual Contest
Tamara Kaye Sellman, judge
Theme: "Journeys"
About the Contest:
Second Annual Contest
Tamara Kaye Sellman, judge
Theme: "Journeys"
About the Contest:
For our Second Annual Winter Solstice Contest, we are seeking high-quality, literary fiction and nonfiction that fits with the overall mission of Cezanne's Carrot (i.e., visionary/ expansive/ spiritual/ provocative/ magical/ etc.) on the theme "Journeys." We invite submissions in three categories:
- Short Story (1,001 to 3,000 words)
- Flash Fiction (100 to 1,000 words)
- Creative Nonfiction (100 to 3,000 words)
The winner of each category will be chosen by our guest judge, Tamara Kaye Sellman. Tamara is the editor of both Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism and Periphery Online. Among her many projects, Tamara directs MRCentral.net, a global interactive community which focuses on literary magical realism.
Winners of each category will receive a $100 prize and be published in the 2008 Winter Solstice edition of Cezanne's Carrot. All submissions to this contest will be considered for publication in that issue.
About the Theme:
Life is a journey. All of us travel many journeys in our lives—physically, spiritually, psychologically, metaphysically. For our 2008 Winter Solstice issue (which is also our fourth anniversary issue), we want to publish stories that interpret that theme in expansive, fresh ways.
We encourage you to push the theme, explore unexpected aspects, break new ground, see with new eyes—in other words, write stories related to "journeys" that fit our mission and illustrate the quote by Paul Cezanne that inspired the name of this journal: "The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution." We are looking for revolutionary thinking about this theme—ideas that explode the traditional concepts of the meaning of a journey.
To get a better idea of our mission and the type of work we like to publish, it's best to read the work published in our current and past isues. While your work can interpret the theme any way you like, we will look specifically for works that fit our mission of publishing "visionary" writing.
Contest Rules:
- Entries: Fiction and nonfiction incorporating the theme of "journeys" can be entered in any or all of three categories:
- Creative Nonfiction (100 to 3,000 words). Entry fee: $10 per story.
- Short Story (1,001 to 3,000 words). Entry fee: $10 per story.
- Flash Fiction (1,000 words or less). Entry fee: $5 per story
- Prizes: The winner in each category will receive $100 and will be published in the Winter Solstice 2008 issue of Cezanne's Carrot. All submissions will be considered for publication.
- Submissions: You can enter as many pieces as you'd like, in as many categories as you'd like, but each will require a separate entry fee.
- Previously published work can be entered.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but entry fees cannot be returned if a story is accepted elsewhere.
- Deadline: Contest submissions will be accepted now through November 1, 2008. Winners will be announced on our website when the Winter Solstice issue goes live on December 21, 2008.
- How to Submit: Contest submissions must be done via the form under "How to Submit a Contest Entry" on this page. No submissions emailed to any Cezanne's Carrot email address or delivered to our physical address will be considered.
- Entry Fees: Upon submission of your entries, you must pay an entry fee of:
- $10 for each Creative NonFiction entry
- $10 for each Short Story entry (1001 to 3000 words)
- $5 for each Flash Fiction entry (100 to 1000 words)
- Judging: All qualified enries (see #9 below) will be read and considered for the competition. The winners of each category will be determined by guest judge Tamara Kaye Sellman, and all decisions of the judge will be final.
- Rights: By entering this contest, you grant Cezanne's Carrot its customary publication rights to your work: Exclusive right to publish your work electronically for the three months that the issue is live, the right to publish it in any future CD or audio versions, the right to maintain your work in the archives indefinitely or until you ask us to remove it, and the one-time right to publish your work in a future print and/or electronic anthology. You wil retain copyright to your work. For full details on these rights and what they mean, review our regular guidelines page.
- Qualifying entries: Late entries, entries that to not conform to contest guidelines, and entries submitted in any manner other than the designated submission form below will be disqualified. Cezanne's Carrot and its staff are not responsible for any electronic transmission problems.
During this contest period, regular submissions will continue to be accepted—see our submission guidelines for complete details.However, because of the contest, we will suspend Editors' Prize awards for the Winter Solstice 2008 issue only.
How to Submit a Contest Entry:
For each short story, work of flash fiction or creative nonfiction that you wish to enter into the contest, complete and submit the following form. (For example, if you are submitting three entries, you will need to complete and submit the form three times.)
Contest Submission Form
After submitting all the entries you have to submit at this time, determine the total of your entry fees, then click the "Make a Donation" button below to go to the secure, encrypted PayPal site where you can pay the fee:
You do not need a PayPal account to use this safe, secure service.
Cezanne's Carrot is published by Spiritual, Transformational, & Visionary Art, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation under U.S. law. This designation allows tax-deductible donations.
You will be notified by email when we've received your submission. PayPal will notify you regarding fee payments. Once we've received both your submission and entry fee, we will submit your work for judging.
