Submissions–Rules have changed slightly from last year, so please read carefully before submitting.

Submissions open January 10, 2021 – March 1, 2021. Entrance fee is $25 payable through PayPal to mountainbrookink@gmail.com. Make sure to put “Fire Award” in the subject line. Submissions will not be considered until the entrance fee has been received. Save the document as Fire Award (+) your name.

Early bird submissions January 10, 2021 – January 20, 2021. Discounted entrance fee of $15.

For round one from Jan. 10  to March 1, submit the following in this order:

* A short query letter with your name, name of your book, category you’re entering (Fantasy, Sci-fi, or Other), total or projected word count (if it’s not quite complete yet–full MS’s won’t be due until late July for finalists), short author bio including your short summary of your marketing proposals, number of newsletter subscribers and social media followers, writing credits, and 1-2 paragraph summary of your book. Query letter may be up to a full page if needed.

* A 1-2 page synopsis with your name, category, and contact info at the top

* The first 10k-11k words of your manuscript (no more or less)

* Send all of this in one Word document–query letter first, synopsis second, with the first 10k-11k words of the book following, and send it as an attachment to contests@mountainbrookink.com. Please put Fire Award in the subject line, and in the body of the email state if you’ve sent your entry fee via Paypal and state the name you used on the Paypal payment, as well as the category you’re entering. If you don’t have a Paypal account, you may send a check. Please state you’d like to do that in your email as well.

Thank you and blessings to you all!