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The contest is limited to 500 entrants and there is a small entrance fee of $5. When you purchase this, you’ll download a PDF file of the guidelines. There is also a link to them in the email receipt.
Start time is April 24th , 2010 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) central time.
Don’t miss out on the ultimate source for creative stress…and tons of fun! More than 85 prizes!
For more information and to enter this contest go to writersweekly.com.
1st Place: $300 – One Winner
2nd Place: $250 – One Winner
3rd Place: $200 – One Winner
Honorable Mention – Twenty Winners
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DOOR PRIZES (randomly drawn from all participants)
- 15 – One-year subscriptions to The Write Markets Report
- 5 – Freelance Income Kits ($49.95 value)
- 5 – copies How to Publish A Profitable E-mag
- 5 – copies of Query Letters That Worked
Features real query letters that landed these contracts: Woman’s Day – $2,800; Redbook – $3,500; Ladies Home Journal – $3,000; DiscoveryHealth.com – $2,000; Lifetime Magazine – $3,000; Life Extension magazine – $6,480; Natural Remedies $11,300; and many more! - 30 – Grab Bag! Winners of grab bag get one ebook of their choice from our list HERE.
We all love short tales, but the appeal of these works isn’t just their brevity – short testimonies are usually the ideal genre for exploration, experimentation and the honing of your writing abilities. Some of history’s most well-known authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, JD Salinger, published noteworthy collections of their small fiction. Ernest Hemingway’s excellent operates, including the Old Man and also the Sea are considered long small reports (or novellas) and are an extension of this genre. Short stories are brief and powerful in their succinctness. Good small tales have well developed characters, story lines and settings just like a full length novel. They’re usually a great starting point for beginning authors enrolled in their very first innovative writing courses. And they’re fun to write!