Guidelines

• there is no assigned topic for this contest

• poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (personal essay/ creative nonfiction) are all accepted

• please do not put your name anywhere on the piece (we will ask for this on the submission form)

• submissions to the Annual Writing Contest and Cultural Heritage Writing Award are automatically considered for publication in Trailblazer's Issue I

• if you have already submitted a piece to the Annual Writing Contest and Cultural Heritage Writing Award, please do not submit the same piece for consideration in our first Issue

• however, there is a special prize: the Annual Cultural Heritage Writing Award, which is only applicable for high school writers who have submitted a piece of work on native and indigenous culture and heritage

• there will be one winner and two runner-ups for each category in the Annual Writing Contest (poetry, fiction, & nonfiction)

• there will only be one winner for the Annual Cultural Heritage Writing Award

• a person can only submit one work at a time/ previously published pieces are acceptable, as long as they are eligible for republication/ simultaneous submission is allowed

• if your work is about native culture and heritage, you will be judged for both the Annual Writing Contest and Cultural Heritage Writing Award