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EOB National Writing Contest

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for U.S. Writers

DEADLINE 14th June 2011 Tuesday  
ENTRY FEE $ 15
PRIZE $ 1,000




The producers of The Eyes of Babylon have launched a national writing contest to promote the play’s Off-Broadway run, June 14-July 3, 2011 in NYC. Submission deadline is June 14th, 2011.
Genres

Drama: Play/Screenplay, up to 15 pages | Judge: Del Shores
Prose: Fiction/Non-fiction, up to 15 pages | Judge: Aimee Bender
Poetry: up to 3 poems, or 8 pages max | Judge: Timothy Donnelly

All submissions must be previously unpublished.


Prizes

—> Winners will be announced by July 15th.

GRAND PRIZE $1000 (one overall winner chosen by all three judges)

Publication on The Eyes of Babylon website
Trip to New York City to meet Jeff Key
Read for a New York audience at a gala for the play
Swag bag and art/memorabilia from the play

1ST PRIZE $500 (1 per genre) & 2ND PRIZE $200 (1 per genre)

Publication on The Eyes of Babylon website
Two tickets to the play
Swag bag and art/memorabilia from the play

HONORABLE MENTION (2 per genre)

Two tickets to the play
Swag bag and art/memorabilia from the play


Background

Playwright Jeff Key joined the Marines in 2001 as a 34-year-old gay man. The Eyes of Babylon is the transformation of his Iraq journal into a stunning, raw, funny and indelible solo performance about going to battle, being gay in the military, and finding peace when you are at war with yourself. Jeff now runs writing workshops for veterans, manifesting again the ability for words to heal the wounded and perhaps even the sea of restless bystanders.


Contest Themes

With this contest, we hope to to further explore the play's themes of war, the memory of war, and our individual and collective forgetfulness about being at war. We hope to start a broad social dialogue about how art is both a celebration and a critique of our citizenship, patriotism, love of country, and allegiance to values. The play is as much about the process of searching for answers as finding answers themselves, and contest entries should consider the battles we wage both internally and externally, and the role of writing, creativity, and art in the fight for peace, change, and self-examination.


Submission Fee

Entry fee is $15. Multiple entries are welcome, and will be considered as anonymous separate entries. The fee is $10 for each additional submission. Follow the submission instructions below for each separate submission, and assign each piece a unique passcode. Use the same email address to submit all entries.


Submission Instructions

Submit work via email by June 14th, 2011.

Important information about the PayPal process:

—> Your name should not appear on any pages of your submission. PayPal will prompt you to create a six-digit alpha-numeric passcode to identify your piece. You will be asked to include this passcode in your submission email and on your submitted piece, so be sure to remember it!

—> After you have paid, PayPal will provide a link saying "Return to Babylon to Broadway LLC." Click this link to go to the Submit Your Writing page on our website, where you will be given instructions on how to submit your piece.

Questions?

For further inquiries, please contact jennilyn@theeyesofbabylon.com

http://www.theeyesofbabylon.com/
http://www.theeyesofbabylon.com/writing-contest/

Click on the link above and go to the contest official site




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