The Silver Quill Society Short Story Contest
Best Short Fiction 2013
Must be postmarked by September 25, 2013
Entry fee: $5.00
You may enter as many times as you wish, but entry fee must accompany each entry.
3,000 words max
Open genre
Winners will be announced in the Jan/Feb/March 2014 issue.
Do not send an SASE as entries will not be returned. However, if you want a winner's list, do include the SASE
Prizes:
1st place: $50.00
2nd place: $25.00
3rd place: $15.00
1st honorable mention: $10.00
This is an open genre contest, but send your best and remember the first place story will be published in The Storyteller in the following Jan/Feb/March issue. Publishing of the winning story is totally up to the winner--it is not a requirement for winning. Only 1st place winners will be published. (However, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place winners may resubmit story at a later date for possob
Include title page: Title, name, address, phone number and email (if you have one) and number of words. Your name should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. To have your name on your manuscript will result in disqualification.
No pornography, erotica, new age, children's stories, graphic horror, graphic voilence, graphic language, nor will we
include anything deemed racial or biased toward any religion, race or moral preference.
Send to:
The Storyteller
2441 Washington Rd.
Maynard, AR 72444
Make checks or money orders payable to The Storyteller. If International, all payments MUST be in U.S. Funds
Just what kind of stories are the judges looking for?
1. Showing, showing, showing.
2, An imaginative story with fictional characters in unique, dramatic situations. (My divorce, my first job, my trip to Grandma's, probably won't win.)
3. A smooth flow to the writing, best accomplished by mixing description and dialouge, avoiding cliches, avoiding formality in conversation (unless character requires it--for example--a professor), varying sentence length, and grammar is important, but not as important as the other elements.
Please write Silver Quill on outside of envelope.
Best Short Fiction 2013
Must be postmarked by September 25, 2013
Entry fee: $5.00
You may enter as many times as you wish, but entry fee must accompany each entry.
3,000 words max
Open genre
Winners will be announced in the Jan/Feb/March 2014 issue.
Do not send an SASE as entries will not be returned. However, if you want a winner's list, do include the SASE
Prizes:
1st place: $50.00
2nd place: $25.00
3rd place: $15.00
1st honorable mention: $10.00
This is an open genre contest, but send your best and remember the first place story will be published in The Storyteller in the following Jan/Feb/March issue. Publishing of the winning story is totally up to the winner--it is not a requirement for winning. Only 1st place winners will be published. (However, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place winners may resubmit story at a later date for possob
Include title page: Title, name, address, phone number and email (if you have one) and number of words. Your name should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. To have your name on your manuscript will result in disqualification.
No pornography, erotica, new age, children's stories, graphic horror, graphic voilence, graphic language, nor will we
include anything deemed racial or biased toward any religion, race or moral preference.
Send to:
The Storyteller
2441 Washington Rd.
Maynard, AR 72444
Make checks or money orders payable to The Storyteller. If International, all payments MUST be in U.S. Funds
Just what kind of stories are the judges looking for?
1. Showing, showing, showing.
2, An imaginative story with fictional characters in unique, dramatic situations. (My divorce, my first job, my trip to Grandma's, probably won't win.)
3. A smooth flow to the writing, best accomplished by mixing description and dialouge, avoiding cliches, avoiding formality in conversation (unless character requires it--for example--a professor), varying sentence length, and grammar is important, but not as important as the other elements.
Please write Silver Quill on outside of envelope.
