The deadline is fast approaching for the 79th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition--May 14th--so get your manuscripts ready.
Writer’s Digest is giving away a total of $30,000 in cash and prizes. The Grand Prize winner will receive $3,000 cash and an all expense paid trip to New York City to meet with agents and editors.
Impressive, huh?
But you will also win cash and prizes if you place 1st through 10th in any of the ten categories.
But--and here’s why I REALLY love the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition--those who win 11th through 100th place receive distinctive honorable mention certificates. (I have won two of these, one for fiction and one for nonfiction).
How many of us writers enter writing contests and never know how close we came to actually winning? At the Writer’s Digest writing competition, you’ll know how close you came and you’ll also have a fancy certificate to prove it. This certainly helps prop up a writer’s shaky ego.
So go ahead and enter. What have you got to lose except--perhaps--the fear that you’ll never be a real writer?
Writer’s Digest Writing Competition--Fast Facts
- You may enter as many times as you want in each of these 10 categories:
o Inspirational writing
o Memoirs/personal essay
o Magazine feature article
o Genre short story
o Mainstream/literary short story
o Rhyming poetry
o Non-rhyming poetry
o Stage play
o Television/movie script
o Children’s/young adult fiction.
- Entry fee is $20s for the first manuscript, and $15 for each additional manuscript submitted at the same time. (Poems are $15 for the first entry, and $10 for each additional poem submitted at the same time).
- You can enter through the mail or online.
- Deadline is May 14, 2010, but entries will be accepted until June 1st. (There is a $5 additional entry fee for each manuscript submitted after the May 14th deadline.)
I’ve got to go now and get my manuscripts ready to submit. Good luck in the Writer’s Digest 79th Annual Writing Competition and let me know how you did.
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