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Showing posts with label contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contests. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

2 Exciting (really!) contest opportunities

Sky is dingy again this morning and I'm planning a menu to serve to my book group who are coming over later to talk about Olive Kitteridge. If you haven't read this marvelous book, I cannot recommend it enough. Oh, and risotto as the main course, appetizer goat cheese broiled in marinara sauce, ....but I need side dishes and a dessert.

NPR is featuring Round Three of  their 3-minute short story contest again.
Round Three asks writers to use a photograph as a jumping-off point for the story. (Round Two asked writers to begin with the sentence, "The nurse left work at five o'clock; Round One had no restrictions.)
The judge for the Round Three entries will be NPR book critic Alan Cheuse. And if should you miss Round Three?  Round Four will be following soon, with novelist Ann Patchett serving as judge.

 AND--for all those writers who want to pitch a manuscript or take a trip to New York,  Backspace is offering a contest for their upcoming conference in New York, May 27-29. Enter--what do you have to lose?