Classes and contests for students 8-18 years old.
If your child needs financial assistance, please call our office at 828-254-8111, or email writersw@gmail.com.
Recent winners of our youth contests are at the bottom of the page!
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YOUNG WRITERS’ CONTESTS
THOMAS WOLFE CONTEST
First Prize: $75 Second Prize: $50 Third Prize: $25 Ten Honorable Mentions
Deadline: Postmarked by May 30, 2012.
Write a story of 15 pages or less, or a poem of 3 pages or less, double-spaced.
Include your name, address, email, birth date and phone number on a cover sheet.
Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your story (which will receive comments by contest judges), and for list of winners. Entry fee: $10 per story. Send up to 5 entries, reading fee, and SASE to: Wolfe Contest, 387 Beaucatcher Rd., Asheville, NC, 28805.
CHANGING MY WORLD ESSAY CONTEST
First Prize: $75 Second Prize: $50 Third Prize: $25 Ten Honorable Mentions
Deadline: Postmarked by October 30, 2012.
Write an essay of 15 pages or less, doublespaced, about an issue that concerns you (for example: environmental, social, educational, etc.) Research your topic, and offer possible solutions.
Please enclose $10 reading fee for each entry, and include your name,
address, email, birth date and phone number.
Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your entry
(which will receive comments by contest judges), and for list of winners.
Send up to 5 entries to: CMW Contest, 387 Beaucatcher Rd., Asheville, NC 28805.