Writing It Real No-Contest Contest
All Entries Receive a Response from Sheila
Sheila Bender is a big believer in prompts, freewrites and the revision process. Our Winter No-Contest Contest reading deadline is now extended until January 31, 2010 and the revisions deadline (no additional payment) is February 28, 2010:
Step 1 - Read this prompt and do a freewrite based on your associations:
Turn on the radio or television. Or open a book, newspaper or magazine to any page. Write down the first phrase or word you hear or point to. Set a timer for 15 minutes and write what you associate to from the words you heard or read. Repeat the words as a refrain if this helps you.
Step 2 - Submit that freewrite up to four double-spaced pages of prose by January 31, 2010; Sheila emails a detailed response within one week.
Step 3 - Keep your entry as is for the contest or revise it based on Sheila’s response and resubmit by February 28, 2010.
Contest finalists will be judged by a guest editor to be announced. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be notified in March and published in Writing It Real. (We require one time only rights). Winners receive a half-hour consult with Sheila about their writing and/or publishing questions.
I look forward to helping you on your way to finished stories, essays, or poems based on what you have begun in those 15 minutes. You may edit if you’d like, but sometimes you get the most help when you send something you haven’t shaped yet!
The No-Contest Contest Submission Guidelines
Deadline: Initial freewrite by January 31, 2010, Revision by February 28, 2010
Entry Fee: Entry fee for current subscribers is $15 and for others it is $45 and includes a year’s subscription ($30 value) to Writing It Real.
Electronic Payment: International as well as U.S. entrants may pay their reading fee electronically using a credit card or through PayPal using the submission form below. If these methods are not available in your country, we also accept payments through Ikobo. Please email for details.
Online Submission Form
Mailed Submissions
The submitted work must be accompanied by a cover sheet that contains the author's name, title of the work(s) phone number, address and email (all responses are given via email). Each entry must contain a reading/response fee check--$15 dollars for subscribers and $45 dollars for new subscribers (the fee includes a year’s subscription to WIR). If you are sending funds from overseas, be sure the amount is in US dollars officially typed by a bank, not handwritten. Checks should be made payable to: Writing It Real. Pages should be numbered. Don't worry; the cover sheet won't be counted toward length. Send your submission to:
Writing It Real No-Contest Contest
394 Colman Drive
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Mailed Submissions will NOT be returned -- NO SASE's please.
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