Contest Opportunities for Young and Old

Here are a couple of contests that should be of interest to all The Writers Circle. First, for adults, the latest round of NPR’s Three Minute Fiction contest has begun. The judge this time is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. The rules are simple: write a story of no more than 600 words that opens [...]

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Three-Minute Fiction

While we’re at it, check out NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest. Here are the basics: “We want you to tell us a story about this photo: “The premise of our contest is simple: Send in your original short story that can be read in three minutes or less. That’s no more than 600 words. Your essay [...]

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Vote for The Writers Circle

The Writers Circle blog is in the running for in the “Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll” honoring print and electronic publications published during 2009. If you like The Writers Circle, please give it your vote. It’s listed as a “Writers’ Resource/Information/News Source” under “T” (for THE). Thanks!

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The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School Short Story Contest

In the past few years, The Writers Circle has been honored to see several of its writers win or place in the annual South Orange-Maplewood Adult School Short Story Contest. Our first winner was Ross Minichiello back in 2007: and Mary Mann placed second last spring. 2009′s winner was Jim McHugh who is in our [...]

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Writing Contests and Opportunities – Addendum

Just a quick note as some of you have asked about paying fees for entering literary contests. Yes, in the old days, paying fees to enter would’ve been a sure sign of a scam. (And it’s still absolutely verboten for a legitimate literary agent to require a reading fee!) But in the contest world, things [...]

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Writing Contests and Opportunities

I came across several writing contests that look really intriguing: Narrative’s FALL CONTEST is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. They’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Narrative is a high quality literary [...]

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Other Beginnings

As an inverse response to my June 16 post, “Beginnings”, Chris Harder just sent me the 2009 winners in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to write the worst opening sentence. Sometimes writing badly can be just as hard as writing well. (Well, let’s hope so, anyway!)

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