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Entry Form 

Colorado Authors' League 2009 Awards Contest Information

All Colorado Authors' League members are invited to enter their best works published in 2008. Please read the contest rules carefully before submitting your entries. Award winners will be announced at the CAL annual banquet in Spring 2009. Prizes include cash, plaques, recognition and promotion.

There will be two levels of judging. All entries will be initially screened by two preliminary judges who are CAL members with expertise in the category they judge and who have not submitted an entry in that category for this contest. CAL judges will narrow the entries to the top three in each short category and the top two in each book category. Judges with expertise in the category they judge, but who are not CAL members, will select the award winners.

If no entry in a particular category is considered worthy of an award, the judges may elect to withhold an award in that category. On the other hand, if a category has only one entry, the judges may decide to grant an award to that entry if they consider it worthy.

Contest Rules

1. ONLY original work may be entered. Such work includes books in which the contestant has contributed a piece. However, only the contestant's work will be judged, not the entire book. Original work may include self-published books.
2. A contestant (and all collaborators) MUST be a CAL member in good standing with dues paid in full.
3. All entries MUST have been published during 2008.
4. Contestants must submit two (2) copies of each entry and provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope if they wish to have their entries returned and a second SASE if they wish to receive copies of the final judge's comments in the event that their entry is chosen for the final round.
5. Contestants are responsible for placing their entry in the most appropriate category. The Awards Committee cannot accept responsibility for reclassifying entries. Once submitted, each entry will be judged in the category in which the contestant placed it.
6. Each entry must be accompanied by an official entry form or facsimile, fully completed and signed, along with the $25.00 entry fee. Please submit checks payable to CAL. Cash will not be accepted.
7. Members may enter as many times and in as many categories as they wish, with a separate entry form and fee for each entry (fees may be combined in one check).
8. Any entry not in strict compliance with these rules will automatically be disqualified.
9. The contest will take place only if 50 or more entries are received by the deadline.

Categories

BOOK LENGTH FICTION (Hardcover or Paperback Originals)

1. Mainstream

2. Genre

3. Middle Grade/Young Adult

4. Children (picture books and early readers)

SHORT FICTION

5. Adult

6. Young Adult/Children

BOOK LENGTH NONFICTION (Hardcover or Paperback Originals)

7. General  nonfiction

8. Creative nonfiction

9. How-to nonfiction

10. Young Adult/Children

NONFICTION ARTICLES

11. Adult Feature (i.e., travel, trends, profiles, how-to, investigative, round-ups, etc.)

12. Adult Essay (op-ed, humor, inspirational, personal, etc.)

13. Young Adult/Children

POETRY

14. All forms of poetry

SPECIALTY WRITING

15. Any published work the author believes is not covered by any other category (i.e. non-print media, scripts, newsletters, brochures, calendars, etc.)

Submitting Entries:

Fill out an official entry form for each entry. Mail the form along with two copies of the work to be judged and the $25 entry fee. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope or mailing container if you would like to have your submission returned. Submissions without a SASE will not be returned. Enclose a second SASE if you wish to receive copies of the final judge's comments in the event that your entry is chosen for the final round.

Multiple entries may be sent in one package, but each entry must be accompanied by its own Entry Form and $25 entry fee. Make sure your entry forms are complete.

Entries must be postmarked by midnight, February 29, 2009.

Send NONFICTION entries to:                                  
CAL 2009 Awards, NONFICTION                                                 
Christine Goff, Awards Chair
573 Williams St.
Denver, CO 80218

Send FICTION entries to:
CAL 2009 Awards, FICTION
Susan Tweit, Awards Committee
P.O. Box 578
Salida, CO  81201

Questions?
If so, please direction them to CAL Awards Chair, Christine Goff at 303-393-1846 chris@christinegoff.com