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2005 HERMAN VOADEN NATIONAL PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
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The Award
First prize        $3000
Second prize  $2000
8 Honourable Mentions
The two prize-winning plays will be offered a one-week workshop and
public reading by a professional director and cast in affiliation with
the Thousand Islands Playhouse of Gananoque, Ontario. Both authors will
be playwrights-in-residence for the workshop sessions. Honourable
mentions will receive written comments from the final judges.

Competition Guidelines
1   Open to any Canadian citizen or landed immigrant.
2   Only one play per playwright is allowed.
3   Only full-length plays in English will be accepted. Legal clearance
of adapted material not in the public domain is the responsibility of
the playwright.
4   Plays must not have been professionally produced, published,
contracted or commissioned by a professional theatre. 	

Submission Procedures
An entry fee of $30 must accompany the submitted play. Make cheque
payable to Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition.
Submit two copies of the play, bound and typewritten.
Plays that involve music in an integral way should be accompanied by a
recording of the music and lyrics.
Submissions must be accompanied by a signed entry form. 
These are available from the Department of Drama, Queen's University,
Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, or through our Internet site at
http://www.queensu.ca/drama, 
or by phoning 613-533-2104. 
E-mail address: hannaca at post.queensu.ca

The playwright's name should not appear anywhere on the script. The
playwright's name, with the play title, should appear only on the entry
form.
Entries will be handled with care, but the Queen's University Drama
Department cannot assume responsibility for lost or damaged scripts.
Only scripts accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope will be
returned. 
If you wish, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard and we
will notify you that your play has been received.

Judging
All plays will be read by an initial group of judges. A semi-final round
will follow. The final round will be judged by Roy Surette, Artistic
Director (Belfry Theatre)  and  Colin Taylor,  Artistic Director
(Theatre Wum). The decision of the judges will be final.

Deadlines
Plays must be postmarked no later than 31 January 2005. The names of the
two prize-winning plays and playwrights and of those receiving
Honourable Mention will be announced on 6 June 2005. Winning playwrights
will be notified personally, followed by public announcement in the
media and to agencies and organizations receiving this notice of the
competition.

Submission
Entries should be mailed to:
Herman Voaden
Playwriting Competition
Department of Drama
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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