The David Evans Awards for Fiction are open to all residents of the Scenic Rim Region.  Entries may take the form of a POEM or SHORT STORY.  Although we want you to be as creative as you possibly can, your poem or story must address the festival theme.

This year’s theme is: IMPRINTS…yours…mine…ours.

Categories for entry 

Prizes and Awards Ceremony

The Awards Ceremony will be held at:

Wiss Emporium, Kalbar on Wednesday September 10th, 2008

and will include entertainment and a mini book fair with local authors. Special guests include percussive poet Ross Clark, recent national winner of the Australian Book Review Poem of the Year, and Estelle Pinney, who together with husband Peter wrote Too Many Spears, the dramatic story of Australia’s turbulent northern frontier.

• There are cash prizes for winners in all age categories.
• Highly Commended finalists will receive a book provided by RLB Drafting Services.
• Winners will be published on the Boonah Arts Collective website, www.artsboonah.com

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• Judges will be looking for 
  Originality of work and interpretation of theme
  Experimentation with form and style
  Correct spelling, punctuation and grammar

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
 Multiple entries will be accepted.
 Entrants must be residents of the Scenic Rim region.
 Entrants must not be already signed with a publishing company.
 The work of fiction must address the festival theme of IMPRINTS … Yours … Mine … Ours … in an imaginative way, be an original work, written in English, and must not have been previously published or accepted for publication, or be under offer to any publisher.
 The manuscript must be typewritten and formatted in a clear legible font. Submissions will not be returned; authors should send two (2) copies and retain a copy.
 All entries should be clearly identified only by their title. The entrant’s name must not appear on any page. No work of fiction will be forwarded to a judge if that entry is marked with the name of the entrant.
 Entrants are invited to provide biographical details to a limit of fifty words.
 Entries, including works of fiction must be received by 15 August 2008.
 Winning entries will be published on www.artsboonah.com

The Boonah Arts Collective Inc reserves the right to quote extracts from the work of fiction, but not to exceed fair dealing as defined in the Copyright Act, for the purpose of promoting the competition.

EVENT COORDINATOR: Renee Mason, phone 0437 923 661 or email renee.mason@yahoo.co.uk