New London, NH: This year’s contest will be judged by Tom Coverdale, a recently retired high school English teacher with 37 years of classroom experience, and the 1995 recipient of the New Hampshire Teacher of the Year award by the NH Department of Education. Coverdale taught theater, creative writing classes, directed plays, and published and advised Fine Arts journals for many years.
Coverdale will judge all three submission categories−Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. The contest is open to all writers between the ages of 12 and 18 who live in Andover, Bradford, Danbury, Grantham, New London, Newbury, Newport, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Warner, or Wilmot.
Guidelines:
Short Fiction: Send your best short stories and flash fiction. Submissions up to 4,000 words. Either one essay or memoir, or several shorter pieces totaling 4,000 words. Must be double-spaced and include page numbers.
Creative Nonfiction: Submit your true stories, creatively crafted. Submissions up to 4,000 words. Either one essay or memoir, or several shorter pieces totaling 4,000 words. Must be double-spaced and include page numbers.
Poetry: Send us your beautiful poetry, all styles welcome. Submit up to 5 poems or no more than 10 pages single- spaced.
All submissions must include the TITLE of your piece, your NAME, ADDRESS, and EMAIL ADDRESS as well as the NAME OF TEACHER you’d like to recognize. Write GRADE, SCHOOL, and the GENRE of the submission on the first page. Send all submissions to submissions@cfanh.org as a PDF and Microsoft Word document. In your email, please include your contact information.
Winners of the competition in each genre will receive prizes from local businesses and will be published in the Teen Writers Project journal.
The deadline is December 15, 2024.