FSP Short Fiction Writing Contest

11 June 2010
FSP Short Fiction Writing Contest
In case you haven't noticed, May is here, which means that it's (Inter)National Short Story Month. To celebrate, we're holding the first-annual FSP Short Fiction Writing Contest. The (short) contest rules are listed below:

* Write a short story (under 5,000) words.
* The only genre excluded from the contest is erotica.
* Please include your name, address (or e-mail address) with your submission.
* Submissions postmarked after May 31, 2010 June 11, 2010, will not be accepted for the contest.
* FSP staff members are ineligible to participate in the contest.
* Mail postal submissions to:

FSP Short Fiction Writing Contest
c/o First Step Press
Post Office Box 902
Norristown, PA 19404-0902

* E-mail submissions to: fictioncontest@fspressonline.org

Prizes:

* First: $50.00 & 2010 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market
* Second: $25.00 & 2010 Novel and Short Story writer's Market
* Third: $10.00 & 2010 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market

Winners will be announced July 1, 2010 July 11, 2010, on the website and on our Facebook fan page. Winning stories will be published on the Stepping Stones Magazine: ALMIA website. So what are you waiting for? The stories aren't going to write themselves. Good luck to everyone!

More information here.
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