I recently posted about writing contests, but I found a few more you might find interesting.
The Simpsons Character Contest
If you're a fan of The Simpsons, you've got less than a week to enter their "Character Contest." To celebrate their 20th year, the folks behind The Simpsons are asking the public to come up with a great name, catchphrase, and a brief description of a new character for the show. The
winner will be brought to Los Angeles to meet with an artist from The Simpsons who will bring his/her character to life in the episode currently planned for January 31, 2010.
The contest just opened on October 16, and it ends October 24, 2009. Find the entry form here. I found the deadline information here.
December Serial Contest - Nanoism
Nanoism (an online publication for twitter-fiction) is holding a contest for a five-tweet serial. Each tweet must be 140 characters or less. According to their contest rules: “Each piece in the series should be a complete and engaging story...but all five should come together to form something bigger and better. You could write about the same character and tell us his or her biography, but you don’t have to -- the interpretation of ‘life story’ and how to do it is up to you.”
Nanoism will choose four life stories. For the last four weeks of December (ending on New Year’s Day 2010), they will publish four different five-tweet serials.
There is no entry fee. You can submit up until October 31, 2009. One submission per person. The four winners receive $10 each and a week of Nanoism to themselves.
Reading Writers Flash Fiction Contest
The folks at readingwriters.com have announced a flash fiction contest of 500 words. The Grand Prize is $100 and the story will be published in the February 2010 issue of the ezine The Verb. There is no entry fee. The deadline is January 15, 2010. According to the contest announcement, the milieu of the story must include snow. Read more about it here. (Thanks to Wendy Burt who tweeted about this contest).
Good luck!
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6 comments:
Thanks for sharing the info.
You're welcome, Travis!
Thanks for stopping by.
Good luck if you decide to go for one or more -- have fun with them.
Good info... thanks! :)
You're welcome, Jm...I hope you go for it!
thanks for the info & cool site! directed here by @ElizabethSCraig, will pass the word on :)
Thanks for stopping by, Alex. Elizabeth is such a lovely person and quite a talented writer. So glad you followed her link to Women of Mystery. Come by again -- and good luck with your contest entries. Thanks for passing the word.
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