ConDFW Short Story Contest

[telophase]

Short notice, but I thought I'd mention that ConDFW, of which I am part of the staff :D, is holding a short story contest. The full rules are here. (If you are a winner and do not want your story published in the program book, let us know.)

Basic rules:

--original fic
--1500 words max
--amateur writers only (definition on the linked page above)
--deadline February 10
--prizes: 1st - $50 gift certificate to Half-Price Books, 2nd - $25 GC, 3rd $10 GC. (If you don't have a Half-Price near you, I suspect we'll be quite happy to give you an equivalent gift certificate for something you can get to.)

I note, of course, that we managed not to put a genre requirement on there, so - oo, no official genre requirement. But as ConDFW is a SF/F/H con, I think the general idea was SF/F/H. :)

Comments

^_^

[ggymeta.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

The contest is open to amateur writers only, defined as any writer who has not sold a story of any length for profit before January 1, 2008.

What kind of f-ery is that? What if we've sold--but we suck? Shouldn't we still be given a chance?

Re: ^_^

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That makes you a pro that sucks, though! XD

(...not going where that line leads....)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

In a development heretofore never found in any of my works, the story I immediately thought of is too long. Crazy.

[venaeli.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, I was able to assemble a story for each semi-specified genre listed. Just barely.

Thanks for the heads up.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hey, perfect! Good luck!

(I'd be tempted to enter myself if it weren't for that whole "being on con staff" thing. XD)