Saw this listed on the Writer's Center website -- Sarah Pekkanen is a former student of mine and so I'm sure these judges are top notch! Sarah's work tends toward the chick lit, as does Andriana's -- she wrote a chatty genx tome on motherhood . . . so if your writing falls in these realms AND you happen to live in Montgomery County OR your name is Jim Mathews -- I highly recommend giving it a shot!!!!

Hildie


Bethesda Magazine Short Story Contest

Announcing the Bethesda Magazine Short Story Writing Contest!

Sponsored by The Writer's Center

Open to all residents of Montgomery County, MD



The winning author will receive $1,000 in addition to his/her story being published in Bethesda Magazine’s July/August issue. The second and third place authors will receive $500 and $250 respectively and their stories will be published on the Bethesda Magazine website.

Stories must be submitted by March 15 and contain a maximum of 4,000 words. For more info and rules of the contest, please visit: www.bethesdamagazine.com/shortstory.

Judges for the contest are:

Susan Coll
Author, Acceptance, Rockville Pike and KarlMarx.com

Adriana Bourgoin
Author, Nine Months in August

Sarah Pekkanen
Bethesda Magazine columnist who is working on her first novel

* Stories must be original works that have not been published elsewhere and for which the writer owns the copyright.
* Submissions must be sent by email as Microsoft Word attachments to shortstory@bethesdamagazine.com.
* The writer’s full name, mailing address, phone number and email address must be in the email and on the first page of the story itself. Submissions without this information will be disqualified.
* The winning writers will be notified in May.


--hildieblog

PS -- don't forget to check in a download/review/rate OH AND SHE HAS A DOG's excerpt at . . . http://www.amazon.com/Oh-She-Has-Dog-Official/dp/B0012658EO/ . . . . how else will you know what EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT?????