Short Story Contest - March 2009
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Purpose: Have fun, enjoy the competition, and become a better author by participating in our peer critique process for this contest.
Who Can Enter: This contest is open to all authors. All submissions must be posted and assigned critiques completed by March 31, 2009. Stories must be 3000 words or fewer. You may post additional stories to this site for critique, but only one story will be eligible for the contest.
Subject Matter: You choose. The short story should adhere to our content policy.
Prizes: The winner of this contest will receive $50.
How to Enter: It’s pretty easy
- Create a free account or sign in for existing members.
- Upload your story; make sure you select “March Short Story Contest” as the category.
- Submit your story for peer critique.
- Complete your assigned reviews, this is discussed more below.
Decisions: There will be 2 rounds of judging.
- Authors from the Review Fuse staff will select the 3 best stories for Round 2.
- Of these 3 stories selected, Review Fuse management will select the winning authors based on who gave the most detailed and well thought out critiques to their peer’s.
Entry Fee: There are no entry fees or purchases of any kind required to enter and win the contest. After you submit your story to the contest you will be required to complete assigned critiques of other authors (4 for free members and 3 for premium members). You will receive 3 critiques of your story in return. Those who do not complete their critiques will not be eligible to win the contest.
Rights: All stories remain the sole property of the author. After we have selected the winner we will seek permission from the author to publish the winning story on our blog. The author is under no obligation to allow this.
Notification: The prize winner will be notified by email on April 4, 2009. We will announce the prize winner on our blog on April 6, 2009.
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March 4th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Very cool
March 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am
I like seeing another contest…………I think it will really help and motivate people to nto only write better stories, but to also to complete competent reviews! In reviewing others work, they will be able to review/critique their own work better. So I guess, what I am trying to say is that I appreciate the fact that using their reviews as a way to pick a winner is great!!! Hope it works well!
March 7th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Will the runners up be announced too?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
[...] Type Fiction, Nonfiction Due Date March 31, 2009 Contest Website http://www.reviewfuse.com/blog/2009/03/short-story-contest-march-2009/ Fee to enter Free Prizes $50 Details Entries must be 3000 words or fewer and adhere to our clean [...]
March 11th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Would it be possible to extend the word count (with the fortunate expense of a later announcement date) for future contests? I like reading stories beneath 3000 words, but when the general “short story” maximum length is at about 10,000 words, it seems like available space is being ignored. However, maintaining the 3000 word limit may strengthen the editing necessity.
Perhaps, through my uncertainty, other opinions will emerge. All I’m asking for at this time is debate.
March 11th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
We are gong to host monthly writing contests. In April we are going to host our first flash fiction contest. In May we could host a short story contest with a 10,000 word limit. Should we put a minimum word limit on the contest? Only accept stories that are 8,000 to 10,000 words?
March 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
We have never announced the runners up before. We will announce the top 3, but only seek permission to publish the winning story on our blog.
March 11th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Forcing an extended word count would be worse than forcing 3000 maximum or less (probably the case in the april flash fiction contest), but I think the extended word count could allow for more creative possibilities.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
‘Jacob says: We will announce the top 3′
Yeah thats what I meant to ask. Can’t wait!