Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Here at Guerilla, we are doing our darndest to heat up the frigid months of January and February with the Guerilla Magazine Erotica Short Fiction Contest. The winning story (or stories) will be published in our special Erotica Edition coming in late March. Thanks go to the contest sponsor, the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Here are the details:

The Contest
• Entry deadline: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 5 p.m.
• Open to all residents of the Capital Region
• No entry fee
• Winning entry published in the print and online editions of the Guerilla Erotica special issue (March 2011)
• Honourable mention entries may also be published
• First-place prize: $250 and a festival pass to the 2011 Ottawa International Writers Festival
• Winning author retains copyright but grants first publishing rights to Guerilla magazine for a period of three months
• Winning author agrees to furnish a photograph for promotional purposes and to acknowledge the contest should the winning piece be published elsewhere

The Fiction
All entries must:
• Be 750 words or less
• Be previously unpublished
• Be clearly recognizable as fiction (not poetry or prose poetry)
• Be e-mailed as a Microsoft Word (.doc) file to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 1, 2011
• Include the entrant’s full name and a phone number for entry verification

The Judging Committee
Neil Wilson – Founder of the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Nigel Beale – Guerilla contributor, literary critic and broadcaster
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm – Spoken-word poet and erotic activist
Tony Martins – Editor of Guerilla magazine