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Dogs and the Women Who Love Them True Story
Contest Rules:
The Angel Animals Network (AAN) is accepting
story submissions about dogs and the women who love them. The stories should
demonstrate the benefits for a woman who fulfills a life purpose by partnering
with a dog to perform extraordinary physical, emotional, or spiritual service.
Stories must be original, based on
real dogs, people, and events. Preference will be given to emotionally
evocative and well-written creative nonfiction stories. Please do not submit
journalistic articles, profiles, testimonials, essays, or fiction for this
contest.
Story submissions must be no more than 2,000
words in English. They should be typed or legibly handwritten. Each story
submission must be accompanied with an Angel Animals Network official entry
form (below), completed by the contestant submitting the story.
Contest story submissions will not be returned.
Please do not include photographs. You may view the list of 1st place and 2nd
place winners on the Angel Animals Network Website after winners are announced.
You can also subscribe to the free weekly, online Angel Animals Story of the
Week Newsletter and look for winners to be announced there.
To be eligible, contest entries must be postmarked
no later than September 30, 2009.
If stories are selected as winners of the Dogs
and the Women Who Love Them True Story Contest and later found to contain
distortions or falsehoods, the AAN is not responsible for any incorrect or
inaccurate entry or story information.
Any contest entries, but especially those of the
winners, will be considered for possible publication in the new book Dogs
and the Women Who Love Them by Allen and Linda Anderson to be published by
New World Library in Fall 2010. However, the contest and the new book
are separate projects. Entering or winning the
contest doesn’t mean the story will be published in the book. Allen and Linda
Anderson will contact entrants if they are considering a contest story for
possible publication in the book. Previous books in the Angel Animals series
have included many stories that were contest entries.
Entry Fee:
There is no entry fee to submit a story
for the contest.
Number of Entries:
Each individual is limited to submit three separate
entries.
Eligibility:
Employees/volunteers and the immediate family
(spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, daughter or son, regardless of where
they live) or members of the same households (whether related or not) of such
employees/volunteers are not eligible. There are no citizen status or resident
country restrictions for contestants.
Judging:
Judging the stories for this contest will be
based on the exceptional nature of the dog(s) who demonstrates partnering
with a woman to fulfill a life’s purpose including a dog who performs some type
of extraordinary physical, emotional, or spiritual service. Other categories on
which stories will be judged are: readability, spiritual connection between
human and animal, dramatic/emotional appeal, inspirational, and represents good
practices for animal health and welfare. A panel of judges, who are known for
their service to animals, will select the finalists.
All Dogs and the Women Who Love
Them True Story Contest decisions are final.
Prizes:
Grand
Prize
One grand prize of $250 will be awarded to the
first-place winning contestant.
2nd
Place Prize
A second place prize of $25.00 will be awarded
to 5 contestants.
Honorable
Mentions
There will be 5 entries chosen as Honorable
Mentions.
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