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A Midsummer Tale!

Guess I should remember to publicize my own contest. 😉

AMT is a creative non-fiction contest. Please, resist the urge to make up crap and call it non-fiction. I know it’s hard, Margaret B. Jones, but you can do it! As per usual, the word limit is 3k, and stories must take place in the summer. This year’s theme is:

The theme of the June 2008 A Midsummer Tale contest is: Snapshots. Photographs can trigger memories of events you thought you had forgotten. Has it been a while since you’ve looked at the dusty albums or boxes that hold your family photos? This year’s AMT contest is a chance for you to dig through your yellowing snapshots and reminisce. Choose one old photo and write about the events surrounding it.

Official announcement here. General contest rules. And the AMT specifics.

Now go tell me a story!

Toasted Cheese

Toasted Cheese 8:1 is up!

AB Article

I have another new Absolute Blank article at TC: Poetry 202: Sight and Sound. It’s a follow-up to Poetry 101: Getting Started.

Didn’t plan to do another so soon, but we had an opening that needed to be filled… and now back to our regularly scheduled programming (a.k.a. thesis-writing).

AB Article

In honor of the papers I recently finished grading, I have a new Absolute Blank article at TC: Tips for Writing a Term Paper.

Toasted Cheese

Toasted Cheese 7:4 is up!

FYI

Toasted Cheese’s webhost is down, which means TC is too. We hope we’ll be back up soon.

ETA (Nov 5): And we’re back. Apparently the cause was scheduled maintenance that went awry. Unfortunately weren’t informed of said maintenance ahead of time or we could have let people know we might be down over the weekend.

Dead of Winter Writing Contest

The 7th Annual Dead of Winter Writing Contest is now open.

Dead of Winter is a fiction contest (any genre) for stories with supernatural elements or themes. This year’s theme is: Urban Legend.

Deadline for entries is December 21, 2007.

Full contest rules.

3 Cheers and a Tiger!

The fall contest is underway!

The theme of the September 2007 “Three Cheers and a Tiger” contest is “Mentors.” The word limit is 1800 words. So, between now and 5pm Eastern US time on Sunday September 23, 2007, write a science fiction and/or fantasy story about a Mentor in 1800 words or less, and submit it according to the rules, which you can find here.

Great way to sharpen up those speedwriting skillz just in time for NaNoWriMo!