Quick! If you’ve got a short story tucked away in a drawer somewhere, pull it out now! Blow off the dust, smooth out the wrinkles, and slip it into an envelope. Writer’s Digest wants it.
Tomorrow is the deadline for the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. The grand prize is $3,000 and a three-day, two-night trip to New York City, where a Writer’s Digest editor will introduce the winner to four editors or agents. The grand prize also includes a Diamond Publishing Package from Outskirts Press.
The categories this year are:
- Inspirational writing (spiritual/religious)
- Memoirs/personal essay
- Magazine feature article
- Genre short story (mystery, romance, etc.)
- Mainstream/literary short story
- Rhyming poetry
- Non-rhyming poetry
- Stage play
- Television/movie script
- Children’s/young adult fiction
The entry fees are reasonable: For poems, $10 for the first entry and $5 for each additional entry submitted at the same time. For manuscripts, $15 for the first entry and $10 for each additional entry submitted at the same time. All but stage play, television, and movie scripts can also be submitted online. Late entries will be accepted till June 2; just add $2 per entry.
For more information on the competition, including the prizes for the second- through hundredth-place winners, click here.
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3 comments:
And how many of these categories dod you enter, you multi-faceted dervish?
Til June 2? I wonder if I can knock something out before then...because I looked at my ancient short stories (the last time I wrote a short story was in college...25 years ago!) and they are definitely not suitable for public consumption. I could submit a poem, but all my poetry qualifies as "humor," though it wasn't intended so at the time...
Clare- Just one: the free-form utter nonsense category.
Laura- Ha!
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