WP&I Announces Short Story and Poetry Contest

Wisconsin People & Ideas and the Wisconsin Book Festival are offering over $1,500 in prizes, publication in an award-winning magazine, and a reading at the Wisconsin Book Festival for winners of their 2012 Short Story Contest and 2012 Poetry Contest. Submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 15, 2011.

Short story contest winners will be chosen by Robert Vaughan and poetry winners will be chosen by Milwaukee Poet Laureate Susan Firer. Winners in each category will receive prizes of $500 (first place), $250 (second place), and $100 (third place). All winners will read at the 2012 Wisconsin Book Festival. The first-place winners will also receives a weeklong residency at Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts.

Winning short stories will appear serially beginning with the first-prize story in the summer 2012 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas. Winning poems will appear in the spring 2012 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas, with 10 runners-up in subsequent issues.

For more information about the contest or submitting, visit http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/storycontest or http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/poetrycontest.