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MVP Competition entry form
(Include one copy of the manuscript and a SASE for notification. Mss. will not be returned. Include $20 entry fee.)
- I have read the guidelines for the 2011 MVP Project competition and understand them. (This year, both the Prose Prize and the Poetry Prize are national. Any writer writing in English is eligible.)
- My creative work qualifies as the work of a "new or emerging writer." (Any writer who has not published more than two books of creative writing with a commercial, university, or nationally distributed small press. A writer who has won the MVP Competition once is eligible again three years after the year in which the winning manuscript was submitted; a writer who has won the competition twice cannot enter again.)
- All of the material included in this submission is of my own composition and is free from copyright restrictions. I understand that should I win the competition, I will be responsible for securing releases. I also understand that simultaneous submissions are acceptable and even encouraged, but that I must notify NRP if my manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Otherwise, this entry form grants NRP exclusive rights to publish the winning manuscript.
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Genre: Poetry Prose (circle one) Date:__________ |
Address:_____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ |
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Telephone:_________________________________ Email:_____________________________________ Tentative Title of Manuscript:___________________ |
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Holaday Mason
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Downriver People, fiction
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