Literature

This category includes, poetry, essays, short stories, and well developed blog posts.  The recommended maximum word length for essays or short stories is 5,000 words.  Essay's can be academic or personal inquiry. Shorts stories can be fact or fiction. Poems can be of any type.  All literary entries must be typed in 12 point type. Times Roman is the recommended font but is not absolute. Make sure your name, the title of your work, your phone number and email address are included on the cover sheet.

We prefer all literary works be mailed to us in hard copy format:

Eco Arts Awards
224 Aurora Drive
Asheville, N.C. 28805

You can however upload written works on our entry form using a Word doc.

Selection criteria for winning entries in the literature category will be:

• Thematic impact   (relevance to ecological issues)
• Originality and artistry of voice, style, language and imagery
• Technique (structure, language, poetic and literary devices)