Yes, it’s officially fall and temperatures are dropping slowly, but we’re not looking for that kind of cover.
The Stonepile Writers’ Anthology needs a cover, so we’re having a contest.
The prize is (drumroll) YOU will become the designer of a book cover!
Oh yeah, there’s the $100, too.
Fame and fortune can be yours, and we’d like to help. We ask that you read the stipulations below and then submit your entry.
We know you’re talented and creative. Here’s your chance to prove it!
Good luck.
Contest is open to ALL NGCSU students, staff, and faculty.
Submissions will be reviewed by the University Press of North Georgia Faculty Board.
The winning submission will be used as the permanent cover for the anthology, with the artist credited on the Acknowledgements page (and included in all advertising for the book).
Rules
Submissions need to stay true to the Stonepile Writers Association mission which is best described by the inception of the group’s name:
When helping decide on the group’s name, Dr. Alice Sampson, Director of the Georgia Appalachian Studies Center, wrote: “For several months while in graduate school, I passed Princess Trahlyta’s grave at Stonepile Gap, making my way up the mountain to Woody Gap School…It is also called Stonepile Gap.
“Here one pays respect to her by adding a rock to the Princess’s grave. I see our group as building a place that may be temporary as a pile of rocks, but it is of solid material and composed of individual contributions, plus the name is ‘place-based’.”
According to roadsidegeorgia.com, Stonepile Gap is the burial site of a Cherokee Indian princess. It has become a custom for a passersby to drop a stone on the grave for good luck.
The submitted art-work should be some form of visualization of this concept (an example of such visualization is available at http://stonepilewriters.edublogs.org/).
Medium
Art-work can be in any two-dimensional medium in .tiff (preferred) or jpeg with a minimum of 600 dpi, so that the image can be either reduced or blown up to fit a 6X9 cover with clear resolution
Submission Requirements
Please email all submissions as an attached file to upng@northgeorgia.edu. The subject line must read: COVER ART/Stonepile Writers. Please include in the email your contact information.
Contest Deadline
Nov. 15, 2010