NOTE: The contest is now closed to entries. We will announce the winner within the next two weeks!
Are you trying to become a better writer? Are you interested in getting published sooner? This is your chance.
For the next several weeks, we’re running a writing contest that will help you do just that.
Let’s Write a Short Story! is an ebook about how to get published sooner and begin to build a career writing fiction. To win this contest, you will write and submit a short story.
If your piece is chosen, you will receive the following:
- All formats of my new ebook, Let’s Write a Short Story (if you already have them, you can give them to a friend).
- The workbook, 15 Days to Write and Submit a Short Story.
- A new, soon-to-be-released video guide on how to write and submit short stories.
- A $50 Amazon gift card!
You will submit a longer piece, between 500 and 1250 words of your best work.
The contest ends after ten-days, on Friday, Sept 14, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST. After that, submissions will close, and we will choose a winner.
At the end of the month, we’ll publish your edited piece on the Write Practice where hundreds of people will get to read you at your very best. For example, read last month’s winner, Doc O’Connor’s Relay.
Even better, we will to collect the winning piece in an anthology and publish them in a book. So if your piece is chosen, you will be published.
Here are the details.
CONTEST RULES
There is no theme for this contest. Write the best story you can. If you’d like to get a sense of what we’re looking for, get a copy of the book Let’s Write a Short Story.
Guidelines
- We will accept pieces between 500‑1250 words. We will read every word, so please, nothing over 1250 words.
- Post your completed piece in the comments section of this post.
- All entries must be unpublished work. Please don’t repurpose stories from your blog.
- You can post as many stories as you want.
- Please, nothing too graphic or explicitly sexual.
- The deadline is Friday, September 14 at 11:59 pm EST to post your piece. That’s ten days, but start today!
And, of course, if you submit your work, you agree to give us first publishing rights (meaning that after we publish it, the rights revert back to you).
Best of luck!
Now Tell Your Friends
If you think your writing friends would be interested in this, let them know!
Find out how your short story can get published in print and you can win $70 in prizes from The Write Practice awe.sm/o3xiE
— thewritepractice.com (@write_practice) September 5, 2012