First Prize: St. Martin’s Press publishing contract The Judge: Lord Jeffrey Archer Entry Fee: None Your submission must be 5,000 words or shorter. One entry per person. But hurry, entry deadline is October 2. Enter online at Jeffrey Archer Presents. CONTEST UPDATES Approaching deadlines: > Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest—entry deadline is Oct. 1 > Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition—entry deadline is Oct. 1 > Hint...

September 8, 2010, New York): Master storyteller and former Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney (www.frankdelaney.com, http://twitter.com/fdbytheword) is launching his second Twitter Writing Challenge on Monday, September 13: write the best, most arresting simile you can in 140 characters or less. “Similes add flavor and clarity; they fix an image in the reader’s mind. A good simile in a passage of writing is like a raisin in a cake...

Online Workshops Begin Now! http://www.writingclasses.com If summer slipped by before you could make real progress with your writing, don’t despair. With expert instruction, structure, and helpful encouragement, you can make great strides with your writing before year’s end. And Gotham is the perfect place to help you get your writing on track. When you participate in a Gotham workshop you benefit from weeks of expert instruction,...

August 30, 2010. Toronto — — Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community and Chooseco, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure series are pleased to announce a new digital partnership aimed at the Young Adult fiction market featuring Chooseco’s first title aimed at teen girls, “Fabulous Terrible: The Adventures of You”.   As Chooseco expands its offerings for teen girls into the teen marketplace, the company will work with...

We love your contest blog and I thought this song contest would be good for your site.  Church’s Chicken is running a song contest and we’d love some popsters, rocksters, rappers, electro and hip hop kids to do a take. Here’s the background. Church’s just launched Spicier Spicy Chicken, and in conjunction we also launched a new website and competition that you might be interested in.  Check out the site at...

We invite you to take a look at the August issue of Gemini Magazine, now online at www.gemini-magazine.com/index.html.   STORIES:   – “The Condemned” by Tanya Farrelly www.gemini-magazine.com/farrellythecondemned.html A dedicated teacher is accused of molesting a female student.   – “Dewey” by Aurora M. Lewis www.gemini-magazine.com/lewisdewey.html A fourteen-year-old girl is suspicious of a stranger who...