Colorado Authors’ League 2012 Awards
It’s time to pick your best work published in 2011 for entry in the Colorado Authors’ League 2012 awards contest. Details about the contest and applications are at www.ColoradoAuthors.org. The deadline for entries is January 31, 2012.
Not a CAL member? Join! Join and enter your work.
Keep in mind that the CAL awards contest is not just for books! Entry categories cover the gamut of writing reflected in our organization’s broad membership—articles, short stories, essays, poetry, and specialty writing, as well as fiction and nonfiction books for adults and youth. Once again, judging will be independently conducted by SouthWest Writers, who did a fine job last year.
Now don’t dismiss our awards contest as some shallow beauty pageant whose winners get to flaunt a handsomely engraved glass award on their bookshelf or in their foyer (though the award is handsome). For one thing, the announcement of the finalists and the winners provide a precious opportunity for CAL to showcase our members’ best works to the statewide writing community, as well as the reading public, thereby strengthening the visibility and viability of our organization. Second, CAL winners tell us that they’ve used their awards to promote their winning projects and further their writing careers.
Bruce W. Most
2012 Awards Chair
