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Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.18.247
| Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 01:32 am: | |
For those people who aren't on Shoclklines, here's details of a writing comp that's just been advertised there. 7th Cafe Doom Short Story Contest It was a real struggle getting things together this year, but we got there in the end. We are teaming-up with a promising and relatively new publishing company called One Buck Horror, for this year's competition. Here are this year's guidelines: We're looking for the best in original horror fiction in 3000 words or less: classically-styled tales in the tradition of writers like Richard Mattheson, Stephen King and Robert Bloch, yet wholly original and modern. We're open to all themes and subgenres, as long as it's effectively written and, above all, scary. The winning entry will be published in a future volume of One Buck Horror, and receive a professional payment rate of 5 cents per word. All entries must conform to our submission guidelines, which can be found at www.onebuckhorror.com/submissions. As usual, there are cash prizes for the winning entries and no entrance fee to pay. Summary: 1st place - Pro rate of pay, plus publication by One Buck Horror. 2nd place - $100 Amazon voucher. 3rd place - $50 Amazon voucher. In addition to this I will give One Buck Horror anthologies to the authors of my three favourite stories. Theme – open, horror. Word limit - 3,000 Closing date – 30th October 2011 |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.57.180
| Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 09:48 pm: | |
bump |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.118.251
| Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 10:08 pm: | |
Not only do you enter, you have too judge it, too! |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.57.180
| Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 10:35 pm: | |
That means my story will get at least one vote then |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88
| Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 03:18 pm: | |
Start off with your last paragraph, is my advice to you, Weber: http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-19/bostonglobe/30176405_1_stories-spoilers-re ading |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.182
| Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 03:26 pm: | |
He has his rotting mum in the cellar and dresses in women's clothing. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88
| Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 03:42 pm: | |
I like that, Gary. It could work. "His rotting mum was plopped down in the cellar, 'telling' him to dress like her as he shower-knifed the nubile young embezzlers who'd stray by the run-down motel. He was caught before he could kill a third time, and taken to the insane asylum, so he could be eventually released later in the early 80's for a rehash. "But anyway, some two-hundred pages earlier, it was another hot day in Phoenix...." |
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