Scars Publications “Editor’s Choice” Contests

All contest winners appear as a contest winner
in the front of our next collection book, and
winners get a free copy of the book!

there are multiple contest winners, so you can submit a few pieces and have a few contest winning entries!

In the past, Scars and CC&D have sponsored contests and calendar entries...

Sulphur and Sawdust Slate and Marrow Bluster and Burn Rinse and Repeat Survive and Thrive Side A/Side B Balance Chaos Theory front cover Writings to Honour & Cherish we the Poets, the 2007 poetry collection book the Book of Scars, the 2007 prose collection book Dark Matter 100 Words (2011 poetry collection book) Poet as Sociopath (2013 poetry collection book) Need to Know Basis (redacted edition) - the 2014 poetry and short prose collection book Sunlight in the Sanctuary, 2015 anthology the Chamber, 2016 collection book Natural Light, 2018 collection book Still Life, 2018 collection book Regarding Utopia Running Out of Time

in books, including:
“Sulphur and Sawdust”, in 1995
“Slate and Marrow”, in 1996
“Blister and Burn”, in 1997
“Rinse and Repeat”, in 1999
“Survive and Thrive”, in 2001
“Side A/Side B”, in 2003
“Balance”, in 2004
“Chaos Theory”, in 2005
“Writings to Honour & Cherish”, in 2006
“We The Poets”, in 2007
“The Book of Scars”, in 2007
“Dark Matter, in 2008
“Ink in my Blood, in 2009
“100 Words, in 2011
“Poet as Sociopath, in 2013
“Need to Know Basis (redacted edition), in 2014
“Sunlight in the Sanctuary”, in 2015
“the Chamber”, in 2016
“Natural Light”, in 2018
“Still Life”, in 2018
“Regarding Utopia”, in 2021
“Running Out of Time”, in 2022

we are looking for entries and we want to make people winners...



Editors Choice Award Winner     You can became a Scars Publications Editor’s Choice Award Winner, by submitting writing to be considered for our next collection book contest.
    Submissions to enter the contest are only $15.00 American per poem, and $19.00 American per short story. All winners are printed in our next book, and get a free copy of the book mailed to them when the book is printed. There is a good chance your writing can win and get into this book, so for more information on how to send submissions (getting an address for mailing an entry check and how to submit your writing), please e-mail us and we can tell you everything you need to know!!!

    Come here to tell a friend about this contest!!!    
Just include the other email address in the body of a letter to us...

For submitting writing for the Editor’s Choice Writing Contest: we perfer all submissions to be emailed to us. If any of your submission has bolds or italics, or has any special characters (like “smart quotes” or “curly quotes” - which applies to both double-quotes and apostrophes, any long dashes, ellipses, anything that does not appear plainly on a keyboard), then the best way to email submissions for the Editor’s Choice Writing Contest from Scars Publications would be to email attachments of either Microsoft Word “.doc” or “.docx” files or as “.rtf” files. If there are no special characters (or bolds or italics or indentations) they could even be emailed in the body of an email letter to us.



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