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Monthly Writing Challenge 
                  
(To Participate)

  Monthly Writing Challenge Guidelines:

1.   Only Valley Byliners members in good standing
       may participate.
2.   All entries must be unpublished, original pieces.
      No past entries should be re-submitted to the 
      contest.
3.   Only one ent
ry per participant accepted per 

      contest.
4.   All entries must be family-friendly as per our
      collaboration with the Harlingen Public Library.
5.   All writing challenge entries should be submitted,        without the author's name, 
to rgvbyliners.org by 
      8:00 PM on Tuesday before the month’s regular

      meeting.

Entries will be e-mailed, WITHOUT the author's names, to all Byliners members to read and vote by the Wednesday morning prior to the month’s regular meeting. 

Valley Byliners will vote by Friday 10:00 p.m. and email the votes to the same email.


                                    Voting        

1.  All submissions will be emailed to all Valley
     Byliners members for review on Wednesday

     before the meeting by 10:00 p.m. 

2.  Voting will be done by members in good
      standing and emailed to:
        

            rgvbyliners@gmail.com

      by the Friday before the monthly meeting.

3.  Winner/s will be announced at the next Valley
      Byliners monthly meeting.

​          Writing Challenge Critique

Any author who wishes his or her entry to be critiqued must label his or her work “Critique Invited.”

Anyone wanting to critique an entry can send the critique to rgvbyliners@gmail.com

Each Byliners member can cast a vote by sending it to the e-mail address listed above.


Voting and critiques will be accepted until 10:00 PM Friday prior to the month’s regular meeting.

Voting and Critiques will be accepted until 10:00 P.M. Friday prior to the month’s regular meeting. Critiques will be forwarded to the authors on the following day.
 

       Critiquing is not mandatory and is at your discretion.

 

 

 


The winning author will receive:

  • a certificate from the Valley Byliners Organization in recognition of their winning entry.   

  • recognition on the Valley Byliners page,      Writing Challenge Winning Entries.

All entries must adhere to each month’s specific genre and word limit.  

 

 Writing Challenge Line-up

 

The writing category for each month is:

         “Write in Any Genre of Your Choice,”       
                      

Maximum limit of words/lines are listed below for each month. Please, also, adhere to the contest guidelines.

  The Writing Challenge Monthly Categories:
 

       August:     

                       Category:  Prose

                       Genre:  Any Genre

                       Word Limit:  1,500 Words
September: 

                       Category:  Poetry

                       Genre:  Any Genre

                        Lines:   60 lines

October:

                       Category:  Prose

                       Genre:  Any Genre

                        Word Limit:  4,000 Words

 November:

                        Category:  Poetry

                        Genre:  Any Genre

                        Lines:   60 lines

 December:     Writer's Choice

                         Category:  Prose 

                         1,500 Words

                              Or

                         Poetry 60 lines

                         Genre:  Any Genre

                         Word Limit:  1,500 Words

                         Lines:  60 Lines

January  

                         Category:  Prose

                         Genre:  Any Genre

                         Word Limit:  4,000 Words

 

February  

                         Category:  Poetry

                         Genre:  Any Genre

                          Lines:   60 lines

March             

                         Category:  Prose

                         Genre:  Any Genre

                         Word Limit:  4,000 Words

April 

                        Category:  Poetry

                        Genre:  Any Genre

                        Lines:   60 lines

 

May   

                       Category:  Prose

                       Genre:  Any Genre

                       Word Limit:  4,000 Words

June 

                         Category:  Poetry

                        Genre:  Any Genre

                         Lines:   60 lines

July Vacation

                     
                                    Voting        

1.  All submissions will be emailed to all Valley
     Byliners members for review on the Wednesday 
     before the meeting.

2.  Voting will be done by members in good
      standing and emailed to:
        

            rgvbyliners@gmail.com

      by the Friday before the monthly meeting.

3.  Winner/s will be announced at the next Valley
      Byliners monthly meeting.

​          Writing Challenge Critique

Any author who wishes his or her entry to be critiqued must label his or her work “Critique Invited.”

Anyone wanting to critique an entry can send the critique to ana.a.cavazos@gmail.com.   

Each Byliners member can cast a vote by sending it to the e-mail address listed above.


Voting and critiques will be accepted until 10:00 PM Friday prior to the month’s regular meeting.

Voting and Critiques will be accepted until 10:00 P.M. Friday prior to the month’s regular meeting. Critiques will be forwarded to the authors on the following day.
 

       Critiquing is not mandatory and is at your discretion.

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