Okay, listen up all you crime writers out there, there's a new contest brewing on the World Wide Web. The Watery Grave Invitational is the brain child of Corey Wilde, owner of the excellent, Drowning Machine Blog.
Corey's looking to do something different with this contest and, truth is, it sounds like fun. Starting on September 1 and running through September 8, all EZINE crime writers are invited to send a link to one of their stories published in an ezine. Only one link per author so choose your best story.
After reading all the stories, Corey will then pick the top ten and those writers will be invited to send him a crime story of no more than 2500 words, which you'll have two weeks to write. From those ten he'll pick the winners. 1st prize is $25, second $15 and third $10. There's no fee, only the cost of an email sent to Corey with your story link.
You can check out the details here http://drowningmachine.blogspot.com/2009/08/presenting-watery-grave-invitational.html
For those of you not published in the zines, what are you waiting for? You have until Sept. 8 to find a home online for one of your stories, so get to pounding those keyboards.
Oh yeah, spread the word, we need to drown this man in stories!
5 comments:
Thanks for the PR, Sandra. I'm as nervous as a new daddy.
I was going to past a flash challenge next week, but maybe there are too many of these going on now. What do you think?
A flash challenge sounds great, Patti! This contest doesn't kick off until September 1, and that's just sending a link to an already published story, then the invitation to submit to the final round will be around Oct. 15, so you've got plenty of time to sneak in a challenge.
I'm on it. Maybe I'll get it up by Thursday.
Yeah! I love your challenges!
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