Contests

At Last!  A way to make Friends, Money, Win Inappropriate Trophies & Stuff, and have a Love Life with any of your Favorite Genders: ENTER OUR CONTESTS!

Some of our contests are fun and easy, some require thought and hard work, but all will improve your skills as a writer and allow feedback from kindled–oops!–KINDRED spirits.

Some contests have exact specifications regarding content and word-count; others have wider parameters.  All of them require your imagination on fire–and to write to a specific prompt.

Winners are richly or amusingly rewarded. We’ve given away Barnes and Noble Nooks, trophies, books, cash and gift cards, and the right to name the editor-in-chief’s next born out-of-wedlock-child.  Prizes vary according to the contest, the imagination of the editor-in-chief, and the Dow Jones average.

And don’t forget the bragging rights!

When you submit (ahhh! submission!) you are giving us the one time right to publish your story on line or as hard copy, after which all rights revert back to the author.

All contest entries must be sent as a separate MS Word attachment (.doc, .docx., or .rtf) in double-spaced, 12-point font; each page must contain the author’s name and contact information (including email address, which will not be published).

Contests are free to enter; all we ask is that you encourage your friends to post commentson your pieces, as well as on the submissions of other authors.

So easy, even a cave man . . .


Current Contest Announcements Tempus Fugit: started February 2012; subject, time travel; word limit: 360; end submissions 2/24/12

Current Contest Submissions

Past Contests  (All entries and announcements are listed in reverse chronological order)

 

Current Contest Entries

  • Sabrena Pattat enters the shadows

    Good Morning from the towers of A Word with You Press in Oceanside, California Less than a week to get in your entry to our contest Tempus Fugit...Will You?  It's all about time travel, and isn't it time you traveled to those keys and pulled up the...

  • He's got a nose to damn us! Nick Bertrand snorts out another contest entry

    Literati! As some of you have discovered, I traveled back in time and allowed each participant in our contest to submit two entries instead of just one in our contest Tempus Fugit...Will You?   Nicholas Bertrand got the memo, and here is is second e...

  • Tenley Newton

    Literati! How could we possibly have known without taking the last time-travel train to Clarksville that these highly evolved musicians would have something to do with orchestrating an entry into our competition Tempus Fugit...Will You? Newcomer ...

  • Oil Diane P. Smith wanted was to find her spot in the alphabet somewhere north of "F" yet still south of "H" but all she found was a conundrum.

    Good early morning from Oceanside, California Literati!  We have a new entry into our contest Tempus Fugit...Will You?  Diane Smith was inspired by the master-flasher Sal Buttaci to send this in. Blessed is he/she who invents new words (truthiness...

  • Nick Bertrand won't let it happen

    Good evening all, from The Word in Oceanside, California.  We are four blocks from the beach, but if I can get my passport in order, I intend to travel forward in time so that global warming will have rendered us as beach front property, and I shall t...

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Past Contest Entries

  • SCANDALOUS!!! A Winner for Criminally in Vain!

    Literati Judge Patty Doody has determined a winner...I know what you'll be thinking, especially if you skip to the bottom of the page to find the winner (be strong...fight the urge) But I gotta tellya. It couldn't have been me. I never touch the stuff!

  • Our first finalist

    Good evening, to those of you in our hemisphere, and good what ever time it is for everybody else. We have our first finalist for our Vampires Suck! contest, and that would be Jenny Rostrom Like all finalists, she is required to use exactly 314 w...

  • Criminally in vain : A Thrillogy. Announcing our new contest!

    Literati! The time for plea bargaining is through--you are hereby sentenced to compete in our new contest: Criminally in Vain:  A Thrillogy Ever wanted to write a crime thriller?  Here is your chance.  You have three prompts from which to c...

  • Literati of the night! Our New Contest!

    The midnight hour is here...and so is our new contest, as promised. PRESENTING: VAMPIRES SUCK! (Do you find that a little hard to swallow?) [caption id="attachment_10534" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Cas...

  • and F-I-N-A-L-L-EEEEEEEEEE!!!!! A Winner Announced!

    Literati! I thank you all for being soooo patient as we brought this one in for a landing.  The Second Annual Victor Villasenor  First Sentence Contest comes to an end, and we can get on with our summer! The whole idea of the contest was to stress...

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