Monthly Writing Challenge
(To Participate)
Monthly Writing Challenge Guidelines:
1. Only Valley Byliners members in good standing
may participate.
2. All entries must be unpublished, original pieces.
No past entries should be re-submitted to the
contest.
3. Only one entry per participant accepted per
contest.
4. All entries must be family-friendly as per our
collaboration with the Harlingen Public Library.
5. All writing challenge entries should be submitted, without the author's name,
to ana.a.cavazos@gmail.com by
8:00 PM on Tuesday before the month’s regular
meeting.
Entries will be e-mailed, WITHOUT the author's names, to all Byliners members to read and vote by 8:00 p.m. on the Tuesday prior to the month’s regular meeting.
The winning author will receive:
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a certificate from the Valley Byliners Organization in recognition of their winning entry.
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recognition on the Valley Byliners page, Writing Challenge Winning Entries.
All entries must adhere to each month’s specific genre and word limit.
Writing Challenge Line-up
The writing category for each month is:
“Write in Any Genre of Your Choice,”
including Poetry.
The writing category for the months of May and November, however, will ONLY be Poetry.
Maximum limit of words/lines are listed below for each month. Please, also, adhere to the contest guidelines.
January........ 1,500 words
February....... NO CONTEST
March........... 4,000 words
April............. 1,500 words
May............... Poetry; 60 lines
June............... 4,000 words
August.......... 1,500 words
September.... 4,000 words
October......... 1,500 words
November.... Poetry; 60 lines
December..... 4,000 words
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The Writing Challenge will change in August 2022 as follows:
August:
Category: Prose
Genre: Any Genre
Word Limit: 1,500 Wordss
September:
Category: Poetry
Genre: Any Genre
Lines: 60 lines
October:
Category: Prose
Genre: Any Genre
Word Limit: 1,500 Words
November:
Category: Poetry
Genre: Any Genre
Lines: 60 lines
December: Writer's Choice
Category: Prose
1,500 Wordt Or
Poetry 60 lines
Genre: Any Genre
Word Limit: 1,500 Words
Lines: 60 Lines
Voting
1. All submissions will be emailed to all Valley
Byliners members for reviewon the Wednesday
before the meeting.
2. Voting will be done by members in good
standing and emailed to:
ana.a.cavazos@gmail.com.
by the Friday before the monthl meeting.
3. Winner/s will be announced at the next Valley
Byliners monthly meeting.
Writing Challenge Critique
Any author who wishes his or her entry to be critiqued must label his or her work “Critique Invited.”
Anyone wanting to critique an entry can send the critique to ana.a.cavazos@gmail.com.
Each Byliners member can cast a vote by sending it to the e-mail address listed above.
Voting and critiques will be accepted until 10:00 PM Friday prior to the month’s regular meeting.
Voting and Critiques will be accepted until 10:00 P.M. Friday prior to the month’s regular meeting. Critiques will be forwarded to the authors on the following day.
Critiquing is not mandatory and is at your discretion.