GVCA New Deal Writing Contest 2023
Submission accepted March 1 to April 1, 2023.
New Deal Gallery
8th Annual New Deal Writing Competition
GVCA is excited to announce the eighth annual New Deal Writing Competition! This competition challenges writers to use a painting chosen by the staff at GVCA as inspiration for a short story. This year’s painting is “Small Town” by Edmund Yaghjian, an oil painting.
TITLE: SMALL TOWN ARTIST: EDMUND YAGHJIAN (1903-1997)
Description: Although a train platform in the foreground bears the name “Small Town”, the frame of the Yaghjian’s painting had referenced Beacon, NY before getting crossed out in favor of this more universal theme. We are invited to ascend a wooden stairway into a quaint town whose buildings are arrayed upon its hillside: a brick commercial building near the tracks, a church and more ornate homes higher up. Warm earth tones and green foliage predominate. Small traces of the forces that would transform such towns lurk at the corners of the painting, like telephone wires or an automobile at lower right.
The application portal for submissions will be open from March 1, 2023 to April 1, 2023.
The first place winner will be awarded $200, the second place $100 and third place $50. The first place winner will also be published in our Artsphere newsletter and all three top submissions will be on our website. This is an international competition and we hope to receive a wide array of submissions; however, it should be noted the prize money will be given in US dollars. This contest will use blind judging; the author’s name will be withheld from the judges until after the competition is complete, so we ask that each author omit their personal information from their piece. Instead, please include a one-page cover sheet for each submission that includes title, author and email address. Winners will be announced in early May!
Additional guidelines and requirements:
- $5 entry fee for each work submitted
- Entrants must be 18+ years of age
- The work submitted must be previously unpublished
- All entries must be 10,000 words or less
- There are no genre restrictions