Scriptio Canada Romance Division

"It stinks, and I don't know why I bother with it, but
I've got to do something with my time."

Margaret Mitchell while writing Gone With The Wind.

Romance.

The mere mention of the word brings to mind Romeo and Juliet, Heathcliff and Cathy, Scarlett and Rhett.

Now Romance writers hoping to enter the Scriptio Canada Competition can breath freely concerning manuscript lengths and catagorys available to them.

All genre's are encouraged, including:

Time Travel, Fantasy, Science-Fiction, "Shadows"-style novels or writing, All Historical Time Periods welcome including 1900- 1940, as well as interracial.

We are also accepting five different styles of mauscripts for genere including: "Harlequin"-style romances, no more than 240 manuscript pages, "Shadows/Silhouette" style- no more than 325 pages, Historical Romance- No Page Limit, Gothic/Regency- no more than 275 pages, and all other styles of romance not fitting in general catagory, no more than 350 pages!

For official entry form and guidelines, please send an SASE to:

Scriptio Canada Romance Divisions-formCWR

For complete address, please return to our home page. Thank you!

Top winning romance manuscripts will be represented and presented
to top romance publishing houses for publishing consideration! Some will receive cash prizes..

Questions concerning your genre? Please email us at our new address: scripto_canada@wwdg.com.

Scriptio Canada, the sister company of Scriptio International, a non-profit organization also regrets that we are unable to accept ANY electronic submissions. Please do NOT submit diskettes, emailed poetry, attachment files of manuscripts or screenplays. They will not be considered nor will they be judged. Due to the infancy of the internet copyright laws we ask that all writers wishing to submit please follow this rule. We only accept physical submissions sent via Canadian or United States Post Office, or other international carriers.

'Wild nights! Wild Nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild Nights should be Our luxury!
Futile the winds To a heart in port,
-- Done with the compass,
Done with the Chart.
Rowing in Eden!
Ah!the sea!
Might I but moor,
To-night in thee!'

--Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems..

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes
to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have
felt himself entitled to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel.

The latter form of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not
merely to the possible, but to the probably and ordinary course of man's experience.

The former-while as a work of art, it must rididly subject itself to laws, and while it sins
unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truth of the human heart- has fairly a right to
present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation... The point of view in which this tale comes under the Romantic definition lies in the attempt to connect
a bygone time with the very present that is flitting away from us..

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Preface toThe House of the Seven Gables.