Short Story Competition 2: Send Us Your 1,000 Word Story

by Daniel Scocco

All right folks, it is time to run another Short Story Competition. The first one was highly successful with 86 entries and voting rounds that went for almost 2 months.

This time, however, instead of 500 words you will be able to use 1,000. The rest of the rules are the same as you can read below.

The Rules

  • The deadline for the submission is the 4th of January 2009 (midnight). Submissions must be made via email to infoATdailywritingtips.com
  • Send your story either in the body of the email, or as a .doc attachment
  • The stories must be in English, original, and must not have been published in the past
  • Your story must have 1,000 words or fewer. All topics and formats are allowed.
  • By taking part on the competition you allow DWT to publish your story online one time. After that we will not hold any publishing rights over the material
  • All the stories will be published on the blog in January and February 2009, and voting rounds will take place
  • The two stories with the highest number of votes will win the prizes

The Prizes

The competition will be sponsored by WhiteSmoke. It will offer 2 full licenses to the executive edition of its writing software (with a value of $310 each).

If you are interested in offering another prize to this competition in exchange for some exposure, please contact us.

So what are you waiting for? Write on!

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18 Responses to “Short Story Competition 2: Send Us Your 1,000 Word Story”

  1. les on December 3, 2008 8:50 pm

    Profanity ok?

  2. Chris M on December 3, 2008 11:20 pm

    Nah! Too soon after NaNoWriMo.

  3. Bill in Detroit on December 4, 2008 7:09 am

    So … all rights revert to the author on March 1, 2009?

    I’m in.

  4. Daniel Scocco on December 4, 2008 9:09 am

    @Bill, that is correct.

  5. Daniel Scocco on December 4, 2008 9:09 am

    @Chris, for someone who did NaNoWriMo, a 1000 word story should be a walk in the park :)

  6. les on December 5, 2008 11:57 pm

    Just sent mine in!

  7. JD on December 10, 2008 9:03 pm

    Can we submit more than one story? I have one done and one in progress and would like to send both…

  8. Daniel Scocco on December 11, 2008 8:22 pm

    @JD, only 1 per person.

  9. Tower_Keeper on December 16, 2008 1:49 pm

    @Daniel

    So true! However, I have two previous outstanding WIPs yet to be finished and a group of people who are anxiously awaiting one of those books to be finished. Too many irons in the fire as they say.

    Happy Holidays!!

    Chris

  10. Katt on December 18, 2008 7:26 pm

    Oooo fun!!! Just sent mine in!!!

  11. Ankit Kdpal on December 21, 2008 4:39 pm

    is this country specific?i’m from india.can i participate?

  12. Amanda on January 4, 2009 7:19 am

    Hey i was wondering. For the email adress we send it to is it:

    info@dailywritingtips.com ?

    because it says infoATdailywritingtips.com and i just wanted to make sure i sent it to the right email adress

  13. Teddy-the-Bear on January 5, 2009 2:08 am

    Do we get a confirmation email once you have received our story?

  14. Teddy-the-Bear on January 5, 2009 2:19 am

    Do we receive a confirmation email once our story has been sent in?

  15. chetan on January 6, 2009 7:16 am

    i was not able to send my story on infoATdailywritingtips.com so i sent it to info@dailywritingtips.com… can i receive a confirmation for the mail sent..???

  16. Katt on January 6, 2009 2:11 pm

    I didn’t get a confirmation when mine was sent either. I tried to send an email asking if they got it, but I didn’t get an answer. When do you plan to post the stories for voting?

  17. Cécile on February 6, 2009 5:12 pm

    Are there any more competitions? I’m new to this site, and I’ve missed the first two…

  18. Mohammad Iqbal on July 15, 2009 3:04 am

    What is the difference between “SO MUCH” AND “VERY MUCH”?

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