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Show Rules announced for Utah writer contest A new contest for Utah writers writ-ers is anounced in connection with the League of Utah Writers' Wri-ters' Roundup, which will be held in Salt Lake City, Sept. 8, 9, and 10. The convention will be hosted by the Salt Lake Chapter, League of Utah Writers', Writ-ers', with headquarters at the Newhouse Hotel. Irving Stone, top biography novelist in America, will be keynote speaker. The L. Paul Roberts Poetry Foundation Contest will be a special Roundup division for the first time this year. A $15 cash prize and a merchandise second prize will be offered in the Writers' Roundup contest and three honorable mention winners will also be named. This contest is limited to paid-up members of the League of Utah Writers. Each member mem-ber may submit one poem without a reading fee. Each additional ad-ditional entry must be accompanied accom-panied by a 50 cent - reading fee. Poems should be serious verse, limited to 50 lines. Any form or subject matter will be accepted, but poems must be unpublished. No manuscripts will be returned to the author by mail and those not claimed after the award presentation will be destroyed. Second contest A second special contest for paid-up members only is the Ann Hafen Light Verse Contest. Con-test. Light verse must be limited lim-ited to 20 lines and poems must be accompanied by a 50 cent reading fee. Each member may submit only one unpublished poem in the light verse contest. $15, $10 and $5 cash awards will be presented to first, second sec-ond an dthird place winners. General contest rules apply to this contest, the only light verse division. Both published and unpublished unpub-lished contests will be held in the following divisions: Poetry, adult short story, juvenile story and articles. Entries should be sent to the following division chairmen: Short story (adult), Phyllis Simmons, 150 North 400 West, Payson; juvenile story, Alice Oyler, 2565 Harrison Blvd., Og-den; Og-den; articles, Shirley Thulin, 953 South 9th East, Salt Lake City; poetry, Betty G. Acker-lind, Acker-lind, 2545 East 33rd South, Salt Lake City; The Ann Hafen Ha-fen Contest Ruth G. Rothe, RFD No. 1, Box 35, Payson; L. Paul Roberts Contest, Dorothy Dor-othy Roberts, 35 "F" Street, Salt Lake City. Closing date for all contests is Monday, July 17, 1967. All entries must be postmarked or personally delivered to the contest con-test chairman by midnight of that date. Entries must be typewritten, doublespaced on standard size paper, without authors identification identifi-cation on manuscrift, but with author's name enclosed in a separate envelope on which is written the title and first line of entry. Each must be marked "published" or "unpublished" and entries in the Ann Hafen and Paul L. Roberts Contest must be so identified. |