Write On, Alumni! Rules for submission:

You may submit works that have been previously published as long as they are the property of the author.

Submission Guidelines: Students in the Class of 2008 are also eligible. Alumni must have attended Wyoming Seminary, Upper or Lower School (formerly the Wyoming Seminary Day School, Wilkes-Barre Academy, Wilkes-Barre Institute or Wilkes-Barre Day School) for at least one year.

No thematic suggestions or content restrictions will be offered, but the ultimate goal is publication of an alumni literary anthology to celebrate Seminary’s 165th year (2008-09) and writing deemed unsuitable for this anthology will not receive serious consideration. Publication in the anthology is not guaranteed, but will be determined by the number and quality of submissions.

Cover letters are welcome but not required. All submissions must be original work, the intellectual property of the author alone, and not concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. Note: submissions will be retained until an anthology can be assembled (for at least six months).

Following publication of the anthology, full rights return to authors.

Submission deadline is June 15, 2008.

Fees: All fees waived. The Alumni Council will cover all reading fees (which compensate the judges).

Format: Electronic submissions are preferred - fill out form and submit on the Write On Alumni! page. Submit by e-mail attachment to: lortega@wyomingseminary.org with the subject line of "Write On Alumni."

Submission limit: please limit your submissions to three.

If you’re unable to submit electronically, please mail your submission by June 15, 2008 to:

Wyoming Seminary
"Write On Alumni"
201 N. Sprague Avenue
Kingston, PA 18704

* Villanelle: A six-stanza poem. The first five stanzas have three lines each and the last stanza has four, for a grand total of nineteen lines. The rhyme scheme is A-B-A. The first line of the first stanza repeats as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas. The last line of the first stanza repeats as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas. The poem ends, in the final stanza, with a coupled refrain of the first and third lines of the first stanza. Examples: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (Dylan Thomas); “One Art” (Elizabeth Bishop); “The Waking” (Theodore Roethke).

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