Preparing Your Entry

• If you are submitting your entry via regular or “snail” mail, the entry must be accompanied by an Official Entry Form available on the Write To Woof website found at www.writetowoof.org, and the required entry fee (entry fees are only accepted through the secure online PayPal portal found at the Write To Woof website). If you are entering more than one manuscript, you may mail all entries in the same envelope, but entry fees must be submitted individually.  Each manuscript must have its category indicated in the upper left-hand corner.

• If you are submitting your entry via email, you must also submit the electronic Official Entry Form available on the Write To Woof website found at www.writetowoof.org, and make your entry fee payment via the secure online PayPal portal.  You must complete a separate Entry Form and PayPal payment for each electronic submission.

• Your entry must be original, in English, unpublished and unproduced, not accepted by any other publisher or producer at the time of submission.

• Write To Woof retains the right to list all participating entrant’s names and hometown either on the Write To Woof website and/or the Woofer’s Blog.

• Write To Woof retains one-time publication rights to all entries in each category to be published in the Woofer’s Blog; and one-time publication rights to all entries in each category to be published in a Write To Woof Anthology.

• All writers may choose to submit a photo and brief biography to be included with their Woofer’s Blog and/or Write To Woof Anthology entry without additional charge.  All photos and biographies must be received with their competition entry. All photos must be submitted in jpg format.

• If you are submitting your entry via regular or “snail” mail, the entry must be printed on one side of 8-1/2 x 11 white paper (typewriter or computer printouts only; no hand-written manuscripts, please).  All hardcopy manuscripts must be double-spaced—otherwise your entry is disqualified. No refunds will be issued for disqualified entries.

• Your entry must include your name, address, phone number, and the competition category must appear in the upper left-hand corner of the first page, and in the body of your email—otherwise your entry is disqualified. No refunds will be issued for disqualified entries.

• Be sure of your word count! Entries exceeding the word limit will be disqualified. Type the exact word count (counting every single word, except the title) at the top of the manuscript. Word counts will be verified using Microsoft Word’s word count tool by our judges and/or administrators. No refunds will be issued for disqualified entries.

• Mailed entries must be stapled.  Manuscripts submitted as loose pages will be disqualified.  No refunds will be issued for disqualified entries.