Poetry, 1st Place: POEM FOR A BRACELET LOST ON A NIGHTCLUB FLOOR by Kimberly Brittingham
Poetry, 2nd Place: When I was Six by Lotus
Poetry, 3rd Place: Rooms by David Walper
Fiction, 1st Place: Waiting by Lee Hawkins
Fiction, 2nd Place: Tangled Satellite by Sommer Cullingford
Fiction, 3rd Place: Waste by Mark Ellis
All winners will have links to their MySpace profiles posted on the WRHAMMONS.COM home page (at least for a while), have the text of their winning entries posted in the Forums section of WRHAMMONS.COM, and have their MySpace profiles displayed in the WRHAMMONS.COM Top 24. In addition the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each category will receive awards of $75, $50, and $25 US respectively; all winners should email me at bill@wrhammons.com at their earliest convenience to provide either their email address for PayPal payment or their mailing address for payment by check. Please note in your email if you wish to have your real and/or complete name included with your entry (providing that name would help as well).
Prizes of $75, $50, and $25 will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place poems, and and prizes of $75, $50, and $25 will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place short stories, payable via Paypal or mailed check.
Each entrant may enter only one poem and one story each.
There is a 7,000-word maximum on all poems and stories (be aware that, if your entered poem or story requires more than one posting, each part will need to be clearly identified as part of a larger whole).
All entries must be original works written by the poster, cannot contain any copyright violations, and cannot be part of a larger work (i.e., no book excerpts, etc.).
All contestants must post their entries in the "Hammons Prizes for Poetry" and "Hammons Prizes for Short Fiction" topics in the WRHAMMONS.COM's Authors Who Want to Find a Literary Agent and Get Their Book Published MySpace discussion group (poems or stories not posted in those two topics will not be considered for prize purposes). Feedback, commentary, etc. will be deleted from these topics.
All entries must be posted in the appropriate topic before 12:01am, October 1, 2006.
Each entry will be graded on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the worst score and 10 being the best) by each of the three judges. The entry with the highest total score from the three judges will receive 1st place, and so forth. Any ties for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place will be broken by a simple majority vote among the three judges (i.e., a 2/3 vote breaks the tie).
The winners of the Hammons Prizes will be announced on October 16, 2006.
The three winning poems and three winning stories will be posted prominently in the forums section of WRHAMMONS.COM (entry of a poem or story in the contest grants permission for the posting of the work on WRHAMMONS.COM in perpetuity).