Music in the above fifteen-second video is an excerpt of “Freddie’s Theme” from the 1980’s horror film, Friday the 13th and is used by way of the Fair Use Act.

SUPERSTITIOUS:  All Guild Members are encouraged to be superstitious!  Submit up to three poems (fifty lines or less) or three prose pieces (1300 words or less) that each express the theme “superstition” by 11:59pm on May 15, 2018. The best entries will be published in the upcoming summer-fall “members only” edition of The Rockford Review.

RELIEF:  Guild members may also enter the Spring “Relief” Prose Contest.  For this contest, submit up to three prose pieces (1300 words or less) that each express the theme “relief” by 11:59pm on May 15, 2018.  A winner or winners will receive cash prizes up to $100 and publication in The Rockford Review.

ENTITLEMENT:  Any Guild member in good standing is entitled to have at least one poem or one prose piece published in The Rockford Review.   There is no theme or jury.  This is your opportunity to have something you love published.  If you want me to pick for you, then submit up to three poems (fifty lines or less) or one prose piece (1300 words or less) by 11:59pm on April 15, 2018.  If you want something specific published, simply send it to me.  Per our constitution (and this goes for every writing and publishing opportunity we provide) no supremacist, racist, sexist, vulgar, or pornographic writing will be published.

HOW:  Email your subs to editor@rockfordwritersguild.org or snail mail them to Rockford Writers’ Guild – PO Box 858 – Rockford, IL 61105.  Good luck!

Thank you for reading.  Now…go write!  -Connie Kuntz