~ 1^st/$200, 2^nd/$100, 3^rd/$50, 1^st Honorable Mention/Certificate of Achievement,

~ Additional Honorable Mentions credited in Colonygram and on OWC website.

~ First place winners are featured on the cover of the Colonygram. All winners listed inside Colonygram and on this website

~Winners are invited to read from their winning entry at the awards ceremony

~ 1st /$100, 2nd/ $ 50, 3rd/ $ 25

~ First, Second and Third prize poems will be published in OWC Colonygram. All winners listed inside Colonygram and on this website

Original, unpublished short story, fiction or nonfiction.

Word limit: 2500 max.

Fee per entry: $10/OWC member, $15/non-member

$10 optional fee for judges’ constructive critiques.

Standard manuscript format (double-spaced, one-inch margins, 12pt. Courier or Times Roman font)

Title, word count and category (fiction, nonfiction) on first page.

NO author name on story. This is an anonymous contest

Multiple entries okay.

Up to three poems per entry, any form or style, original and unpublished.

Fee per entry: $10/OWC member, $15/non-member

NO author name on poems. This is an anonymous contest

Multiple entries okay.

One entry (up to three poems) per submission packet.

Four stapled copies of one entry. (Keep originals; entries will not be returned.)

One business envelope -- labeled fiction or nonfiction -- with the following inside:

~Check for entry fee, can combine with optional critique fee.

~3x5 card (please no odd-sized cards) with 1. Category (fiction, nonfiction), 2. Entry title, 3. Name, address, phone, email, 4. OWC member or non-member, 5. How you heard about this contest -- specifically. E.g. if online, where?, 6. Critique request if you include optional critique fee.

SASP (Self-addressed stamped postcard for receipt/your piece of mind)

# 10 SASE if you request judges’ constructive critiques (mailed to you in early Oct.)

Two copies of each poem. (Keep originals; entries will not be returned.)

One business envelope with the following inside:

~Check for entry fee.

~3x5 card (please no odd-sized cards) with 1. Your name, address, phone, email. 2. Poem titles 3. How you heard about this contest -- specifically. E.g. if online, where? 4. Whether OWC Member or non-member.

SASP (Self-addressed stamped postcard for receipt/your piece of mind)

Mailing address for Short Stories, Both True and Imagined:

OWC Contest, C. Lill Ahrens

306 NW 32^nd St., Corvallis OR 97330

Direct inquiries to: C. Lill Ahrens, at cclill@comcast.net