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a disability-focused state-wide

creative writing contest

3rd place winners will receive

• free membership to CTD for a year
• copy of 2008 Squaw Valley Review poetry anthology, signed by Austin poet, educator, and long time P2P supporter Liberty Heise.

2nd place winners will receive

• free membership to CTD for a year
• copy of 2008 Squaw Valley Review poetry anthology, signed by Austin poet, educator, and long time P2P supporter Liberty Heise.
• 10$ giftcard to Half Price Books
• a copy of trade #1 of Soldier Zero, published by BOOM! Studios

1st place winners will receive

• free membership to CTD for a year
• copy of 2008 Squaw Valley Review poetry anthology, signed by Austin poet, educator, and long time P2P supporter Liberty Heise.
• 20- 25$ giftcard to Half Price Books
• a signed book by a Texas author, courtesy of 12th Street Books, spiritual writer and P2P non-fiction judge, Jen Hatmaker, and Texas biographer, historian, and journalist, Joe Nick Patoski
• 1-year subscription to Texas Monthly magazine

the Grand Prize winner will receive

• free membership to CTD for a year
• copy of 2008 Squaw Valley Review poetry anthology, signed by Austin poet, educator, and long time P2P supporter Liberty Heise.
• cash prize of $500.00
• professional manuscript critique (up to 5,000 words), provided by WritebyNight. WriteByNight is a writing center and writers' service dedicated to helping writers of all experience levels achieve their creative potential and literary goals.

Selected entrants will have the opportunity to present their work at the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival.

ALL entrants, past and present, will be invited to an open reading at Half Price Books, N. Lamar in Austin.