Prizes: First: $350.00, Second: $125.00, Third: $75.00, Plus Honorable Mentions

First, Second, Third, and selected Honorable Mention winning stories will be published
in future issues of the WRITERS' Journal.

Annual Postmark Deadline:

May 30

Reading Fee:

$10.00/entry

U.S. funds only

Send Entries to:

(Multiple entries from one party may be mailed in one envelope.)

"Short Story Contest"

Val-Tech Media

P.O. Box 394

Perham, MN 56573


Please make checks or money orders payable to:

WRITERS' Journal

Submissions must be postmarked by the deadline date. (May 30)

Manuscripts will not be returned

Rules:

Length must not exceed 2,000 words.

Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced

on 8 1/2" x 11" paper.

Only one copy of each entry required:

~ Writer's name must not appear on submission.


Each submission must include:

~ A separate cover page with the name of contest, title of manuscript, writer's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address if available.

~A title page with the manuscript title only.

~On the manuscript itself, each page headed with a title key word and page number.

~Nowhere on the manuscript should the author's name appear.

No staples please.

Photocopies accepted - manuscripts will not be returned.

For those without Web access, a winner's list can be obtained by sending a #10 SASE.

Only original, previously unpublished stories accepted.

Copyrights to manuscripts remain with author. WRITERS' Journal requires only one-time rights to winning entries.

Reading fee must be included.

These guidelines supersede guidelines found elsewhere whether in print or online.

http://www.writersjournal.com/
http://www.writersjournal.com/ShortStoryContest.htm

Click on the link above and go to the contest official site