Deadline: 15 January 2011
In celebration of our inaugural reading series event on January 14th featuring Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, we are sponsoring a short story contest. The rules are simple:
1. Entrants must NOT be a published or self-published author (i.e. an amateur writer).
2. The story must use a bookstore named MahoganyBooks as the setting.
3. The story should be no more than 1,500-2000 words.
4. No profanity
5. All submissions are due by midnight January 15th.
6. Submit your short story as a blog post on The Lit Lounge and give it the tag "Bookstore Short Story."
The submissions will be judged by a panel of three judges. The winning entrant will receive an autographed copy of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, they will be featured as our Aspiring Writer of the month, and will have the winning piece showcased in our monthly newsletter, on our WritersBloc blog, and on the front page of The Lit Lounge.
Judges:
Monda Webb author of 7:33AM
Roy Pickering author of Patches of Grey