• First Place: The First Place winner in each category will receive $100 in cash, a free Author Solutions publishing package, an SFWC tote bag, a winner's certificate and prizes suitable for writers
  
  
• Honorable Mention: Honorable Mentions will receive a 50% discount on an Author Solutions publishing package, an SFWC tote bag and some valuable prizes suitable for writers. There may not be an honorable mention in every category or there may be more than one.
  

RULES:

1. Entry must be received at our office at 1029 Jones Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 by 5 p.m. on January 4, 2012, with finalist manuscripts and collections due on Friday, January 13, 2012. Put "Indie Publishing Contest" prominently on the envelope.

2. Entrants must live in North America to enter, including the continental
  United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Canada.

3. You may enter as many times as you wish, provided that the entry has not been traditionally published prior to the contest. The entry may be unpublished or self-published.

4. Include the completed and signed official entry form (found at www.sfwriters.org),; the $35 entry fee and one copy of up to the first 5,000 words of your entry printed on one side (not double-sided) of white paper in 12-point type (Times New Roman preferred). You may include multiple entries in one envelope if each entry is paper clipped together (not stapled) with the appropriate entry form. The check must include entry fees for all your entries. If the check total does not include enough entry fees, we will arbitrarily select entries from your envelope and discard extra entries. Do not include printed pages from a self-published book as part of your entry. All entries must be printed on white bond paper in 12-point type.

MAKE YOUR CHECK OUT TO: SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE

5. Do not put your name on any page of your entry except the check and
  the official entry form.

6. No employee, board member, volunteer or family member of Larsen Pomada Literary Agents, the San Francisco Writers Conference, San Francisco Writers University or Author Solutions, Inc. may participate in this contest.

7. Announcement of the winners will occur at the Friday lunch of the
  San Francisco Writers Conference, February 17, 2012. Within one week, the
  winners will be listed at www.sfwriters.org. Please do not call or email
  for a list of winners as they will be posted on the website only. Individual
  winners will be contacted if they do not attend the San Francisco Writers
  Conference and informed of their prize.