Guidelines:

• All submission opportunities must be in English and are open to all who live in the United States 48
• You will need to create a Submittable.com account to participate
• All submissions must be submitted via Submittable.com with a $5.00 fee
• All winning entries will be published online only
• No submissions will be accepted via email
• Please include contact information and bio with your submissions
• Submissions that don’t follow the guidelines will not be considered
• Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winner or winners
• Writers own all rights to their writing
• Winners only must submit (color optional) head shot, and four high quality jpeg images that will be published on our blogs
• We do not accept submissions from writers who have their own pay for view/purchase web site for their work
• $20 or $25 award for winners depending on contest
• Award to one winner only in each category
• You can not submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously
• You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
• Art and photos can be included.
• Must be original writing and or work by artist/photographer included as part of submission.