Submission Guidelines for

The Corona Silver Linings Anthology, Volume 1

Topic

We are looking for non-fiction pieces, poems or imagery sharing your experience and lessons of growth, inspiration and transformation from the corona pandemic.

Categories

  • First Responders
  • Children & Youth
  • Business and Work
  • Quarantine and Isolation
  • Students & Educators
  • Parenting
  • Sickness, Health and Loss
  • Family Relations
  • Love, Dating and Marriage
  • Acts of Kindness
  • Other

Submission Criteria

  • We are accepting essays, poems and images (artwork, photography or digital)
  • Entries must be original and not a translation of a previously published work.
  • Maximum length: 1000 words. Anything longer will not be accepted.
  • No pseudonyms.
  • Submissions must be in MS Word, jpeg or png format.
  • No email or fax submissions.
  • One entry allowed per each $15 donation. Multiple submissions accepted per author, each with its own registration fee and form.
  • Each submission must be accompanied by a duly completed entry form and entry fee.

Language

  • Submissions must be in English.
  • Submissions can be an English translation of the author’s unpublished original work in another language.

Participants

  • The contest is open to all writers, all ages, established and emerging, worldwide.

Entry Fee

  • $15.00 per entry, non-refundable. 80% of your entrance fee will be donated to one of our causes or collaborating charities helping during the Corona pandemic.

Deadline: August 30, 2020, 11:59 PM, Pacific Time (North America), UTC-8

Judging

  • Winners are chosen by blind judging. Up to 200 submissions will be published in both a hardcover and softcover print version to be released by December 2020. Additional winners will be published in the digital Corona Silver Linings Anthology.

Copyright

  • LifeWrite Inc. assumes all entries are original and are the works and property of the entrant, with all rights granted therein.
  • LifeWrite Inc. is not liable for any copyright infringement on the part of the entrant and will not become involved in copyright disputes.
  • LifeWrite Inc. reserves the right to reject work deemed unsuitable for publication or that does not meet all named criteria.
  • LifeWrite Inc. retains the right to use any submissions in any print, digital or audio publication.
  • LifeWrite Inc. holds exclusive rights to any pieces published in the digital, print or audio version for a 12-month period following date of publication. After which, author may reprint piece with credit to The LifeWrite Project and The Corona Silver Linings Anthology.
  • LifeWrite Inc. has the right to change titles and make editing changes necessary for clarity or correction. No content changes will be made without prior approval from the author.
  • Author grants LifeWrite Inc. permission to use your name and biographical information, given by you to us in connection with the The LifeWrite Project, including promotion of The LifeWrite Project.

Announcement of Results

  • Winners’ names, bios and submissions will be posted on Opyrus.com by October 30, 2020 for Volume 1 of the digital Corona Silver Linings Anthology.
  • Non-Winner Notification: Entrants not selected as winners will not be notified individually

Questions
If you have any questions, please write to: scrispe@lifewrite.org or editor@lifewrite.org