Monday Miscellany for November 2, 2009

Hello:

Is it my imagination, or does it seem like most essay contests I come across are for kids?  Not that those are a bad idea at all, but we adults have our fair share of opinions and viewpoints as well, yes?  Or maybe I just need to search a little harder to find adult essay contest opportunities.

In the meantime, I’m posting some contests I came across last week.

Here’s to your writing success!

Mary Anne

Tennessee Williams Fiction Writing Contest

Win $1500, publication, & more. Short stories, written in English, up to 7,000 words. Only open to writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. Only previously unpublished stories accepted. Unlimited entries per person. http://bit.ly/mFbAP

Narrative Magazine is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers, between eighteen and thirty years old, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary.

Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prize winners and finalists will be announced in Narrative.  http://bit.ly/BOdRv

First Annual Scriptshadow Logline/Screenplay Contest

Send your logline to this e-mail address: CarsonReeves3@gmail.com. On Monday, November 16, the top 100 loglines, along with the writers’ names, will be published on the site.

These 100 contestants will be notified and have two weeks to submit either a one-page synopsis of their screenplay or the first ten pages. The top 25 from that list will be announced on December 21^st . These 25 will then have three weeks to submit their full script. The winner will be announced on February 8, 2010.

FIRST PLACE – A review on Scriptshadow, which will likely garner (but not guarantee) requests from agents, managers, and producers.

Look for more information here: http://bit.ly/pgw4i

The Script Alchemist Screenplay Competition is for unique and original, well crafted screenplays of all genres. Screenplay submissions to the Script Alchemist Screenplay Competition should be 90 to 120 pages in length. For more information please contact Script Alchemist’s Screenplay Competition Director at: contest@scriptalchemist.com or visit http://bit.ly/4CSr50

BookRix.com Short Story Writing Contest: “Travel Stories”

While traveling we always have new experiences, whether they are amazing, life changing or just disillusioning. Tell your travel story. It may deal with a travel journey to a new place, time travelling, revisiting one’s past, visiting a lost love or a new one, or an inner journey. Or maybe you want to narrate about your imaginary journey to Mars? Your story can be fiction or non-fiction.  First prize $1000. Go to http://bit.ly/3fY0zo for more dteails.