Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc. is launching its First Annual Cowboy Up Short Story Contest. The contest will be open from June 1, 2009 to December 1, 2009 and will be awarding cash prizes.
Submission guidelines are available on the company’s website: www.moonlightmesaassociates.com.

Entry is open for original, unpublished western stories, up to 2500 words in length. Stories must feature a cowboy or two, or other western characters. Entries may be fiction or nonfiction, modern or classic.

The top three winners will be notified in December. Cash prizes will be awarded!

Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc., located in Wickenburg, Arizona, and own and operated by Becky Coffield, is a small, independent publishing house specializing in western writing, both fiction and nonfiction. Cowboy Poetry is another genre that Coffield is considering on adding to the company’s program. Coffield plans on publishing between two and four works a year.

The publisher has five readers ready to go for the current contest, so get those stories rollin’ on in!