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Sep.21.2011
Noah Baird, author of Donations to Clarity, needs the name for a female roller derby player. These girls/women love scary names, so let your imagination fly!
He also needs an original rock band name, circa late ‘80s. He wants something so sleazy, so nasty, you’ll want to bathe in Purell and throw...
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Sep.06.2011
2011 Giller longlist a wide open field
by Stuartt Woods
A sure sign the fall literary season is underway, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has announced its first round of nominees for 2011. The 17-title longlist – the largest since the prize began announcing it in 2006 – pits newcomers (...
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Aug.31.2011
Contest! To celebrate the release of Susan Surman’s new book, Dancing at all the Weddings, she is hosting a writing contest, “A Healthy Divorce.” Please write a very short story or a real life anecdote (no more than 500 words) about a healthy divorce — if there is such a thing! Click here for...
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Aug.31.2011
There is a great short story writing contest going on now until the end of September 2011. There is a low entry fee and pretty good monetary prizes. So, if anyone is interested in submitting their stories, get busy! The sponsor is the Ventura County Writers Club, an 80 year old group of writers...
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Aug.19.2011
Contests, Facebook
Win $25,000 in Reader’s Digest Writing Contest
By Maryann Yin
To celebrate the publication of Life…The Reader’s Digest Version: Great Advice, Simply Put, Reader’s Digest will host the “Your Life…” contest. The grand prize winner will receive $25,000, and ten...
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Jul.26.2011
It's finally here! THE LOST, the first book in my new SIN HUNTERS paranormal romance series, has hit bookshelves and is available online at various vendors. Join me for the rest of this month and all of August as I celebrate the release of THE LOST with some very special contests and an...
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Jul.24.2011
The background: I found a ceramic chochke that I named Reggie:
last month in a dollar store on Mission Street. I challenged anyone who cared to provide evidence of something uglier, and The Ugliest Thing in the World Contest kicked off to a blazing start, inspiring two dozen visually repulsive...
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Jul.18.2011
So my friend 'Nathan is having a contest over on his Facebook page where people can win a copy of one of the anthologies where his work appears. (He's got quite a few, you know.) As it happens, we are in an inordinately high number of these together. You might think it's a conspiracy, even.
But...
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Jul.16.2011
A contest as a form of self-punishment. 'nuff said.
http://tinyurl.com/69sxakx
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Jul.07.2011
I know you are waiting with bated breath to find out which entry wins the title of “The Ugliest Thing in the World.” Well . . . you’ll have to wait just a bit longer. The judges are all in the bathroom throwing up. No, seriously, they’re deadlocked.
At midnight on the fourth of July we...
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