Hey would-be memoirists, check this out! You’ve been asking and we finally have an answer. We’ve had a number of emails over the past several months asking when we will have another writing contest. Today we’re pleased to announce a new memoir writing contest. The topic is: How I Met Your Father Of course, we know that not everyone has children, so the related topic is: How Mother Met My Father It’s possible you don’t know the story of how your parents met. And, actually, that’s the reason behind this contest. So often this story isn’t passed along and it should be. It is one of those treasured family stories that everyone enjoys hearing, or in this case, reading about. Here are the contest rules. We hope you will share this link with your writing group or writing friends. 1 — Deadline is March 31, 2014 2 — Length is between 750 – 1500 words 3 — The story should not have been previously published. If you want to submit a story that has been published, please let us know when and where it was published as well as provide a statement that you have the continuing right to the republication. 4 — Be sure to give your story a title and craft a powerful opening and closing. The opening is your one chance to grab your reader and make us want to read on. 5 — Have your described the people in your story? Have you used dialogue to help the reader “hear” the people and get to know them? Have you let the reader find out when and where your story took place? Have you created an emotional link between you and the reader? These are some of the elements that you want to consider when writing your contest entry. 6 — You write and rewrite and are ready to submit. Wait! Before you click on “Send,” stop and read your story aloud. This will help you find typos, poor word choices, and confusing sentences. This will lead to your final polishing of your contest entry. 7 — Include your name and a brief 2-4 sentence bio. Attach a headshot as a .jpg file so that if you are a winner, we will not need to track you down for this information and photo. 8 — Email contest entries to: matilda (at) womensmemoirs (dot) com 9 — Put: HOW I MET YOUR FATHER CONTEST — as your subject line so that it won’t get lost in our email. We can’t promise to spot your entry if you use another subject line. Trust me. Kendra and I get hundreds of emails each day and we don’t want yours to get buried. 10 — Attach your entry to the email as a .doc file or, if you prefer, copy and paste the entry into the email itself. We have some people who do both, just to make sure we can read the entry. Do not attach a PDF as we cannot use a file in that format. What Will Be Done with the Winning Memoir Contest Entries? Good question. We will publish the names of the winners on our website and we will publish the winning stories as an ebook (or what one of our previous winners calls an e-thology). - See more at: womensmemoirs/memoir-writing-news/memoir-news-new-memoir-contest-now-open/#sthash.xo2HNQ3O.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:14:32 +0000
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