Deadline: 10 September 2010
Geographical restrictions: none
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): short stories
Prize/Payment: $100
CatTales: Stories of Feline Virtue and Vice
Cat-inspired quality writing (fiction or non-fiction) that illustrates one of the Seven Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride) or the Seven Virtues (chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility). Before you put pen to paper, or opposable thumbs to keyboard, please note the following qualifying clawses:
* Don’t make us cough up any hairballs – no cutesy-wootsy kitty stories, and absolutely no balls of yarn! Make us purr, make us hiss, make us cry into our cream, make the hair stand up on our backs and make us yowl at the moon. Show us some real cattitude with tales of drama, humor, catastrophe and catharsis.
* Send us as many as three entries, not more than 750 words per piece.
* Your name, e-mail address, story title and which particular virtue or vice is being addressed (in case we can’t figure it out; it’s so hard to tell the difference between, say, gluttony and greed) must be included on each document you send.
* The contest ends at midnight California time (although we think it should be teatime) Sept. 10.
* The winner gets a hundred quid – or $100, if you can’t read English – and a hand-drawn, signed cartoon strip from Ruth Joyce.
* Send your entries to thorn@awordwithyoupress.com so he can book them in, like a good little human. (We heard about the caterwauling over coffee chop kittycles!)
What are you waiting for? Cat got your tongue? Oh, dear – dreadfully sorry about that – I was just trying to get that bickie out of your mouth.
More information here.
Geographical restrictions: none
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): short stories
Prize/Payment: $100
CatTales: Stories of Feline Virtue and Vice
Cat-inspired quality writing (fiction or non-fiction) that illustrates one of the Seven Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride) or the Seven Virtues (chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility). Before you put pen to paper, or opposable thumbs to keyboard, please note the following qualifying clawses:
* Don’t make us cough up any hairballs – no cutesy-wootsy kitty stories, and absolutely no balls of yarn! Make us purr, make us hiss, make us cry into our cream, make the hair stand up on our backs and make us yowl at the moon. Show us some real cattitude with tales of drama, humor, catastrophe and catharsis.
* Send us as many as three entries, not more than 750 words per piece.
* Your name, e-mail address, story title and which particular virtue or vice is being addressed (in case we can’t figure it out; it’s so hard to tell the difference between, say, gluttony and greed) must be included on each document you send.
* The contest ends at midnight California time (although we think it should be teatime) Sept. 10.
* The winner gets a hundred quid – or $100, if you can’t read English – and a hand-drawn, signed cartoon strip from Ruth Joyce.
* Send your entries to thorn@awordwithyoupress.com so he can book them in, like a good little human. (We heard about the caterwauling over coffee chop kittycles!)
What are you waiting for? Cat got your tongue? Oh, dear – dreadfully sorry about that – I was just trying to get that bickie out of your mouth.
More information here.
