Writing Competition, Souls of Indie & ROW80 Update

Happy Monday. I have stuff to share today.

First, a great opportunity to enter a short story contest for a low fee ($10 per entry) and nice prizes ($100 to the winner, $50 to the runner up). Check out the Pamlico Writers Writing Competition.

Deadline: February 23, 2014

Information (for further details, visit here):

Who May Enter: 

• Any adult writer (age 18 or over).
• The High School Category is for students in Grades 9-12 ONLY.
• Members of the current Steering Committee, Jurors, and Workshop Presenters WILL NOT participate in the competition.

What You May Enter:

• Your entry must be your original work.
• You must own all publication rights (i.e., the work must never have been published in a manner in which you gave away your rights). You generally do not give away rights when the work is published on the Internet. You may, as when you are not paid, retain all rights whenever you have published the work in a conventional way.
• Entries flaunting degrading sexual and physical violence or espousing extreme political views will not be considered for judging at the discretion of the contest juror.

There are five contest categories:

• Fiction
• Creative Non-fiction
• Young Adult
• Poetry
• High School 

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Mondays are also my A Round of Words in 80 Days (ROW80) check in days. 

After completing my second round of edits on Chasing Shadows, I needed to play quite a bit of catch up on everything from blog posts to taxes. Now, I'm working on Chasing Forgiveness, a Tala Prophecy novella, while I'm waiting for CS to come back. Plus, I need to finish my Acknowledgements and back cover summary. 

Wishing everyone a great week!

Writers' Conference & Competition News

TGIF!

I'm still finding my footing after two weeks of holiday craziness and family time. Hope everyone's transition to 2014 is coming along.

Today, I wanted to share some information about the wonderful Pamlico Writers Conference and Competition with all of you.

Saturday, March 8

9:00am - 6:00pm

Washington, North Carolina (waterfront)

From their website

Our theme above emphasizes the hands-on approach of the second annual 2014 conference & competition presented by the Beaufort County Arts Council and The Pamlico Writers Group.

Writers will meet in the Washington Civic Center, an historic railroad station and warehouse, located in the heart of Washington, NC on the Pamlico River.

We invite you to join us for a day filled with workshops, a keynote speaker, and a panel discussion on The Craft of Writing, a.k.a. The Labor After the Inspiration.

About the Juried Writing Competition

DEADLINE for submissions: February 23, 2014

Contest Categories:

• Fiction
• Creative Non-fiction
• Young Adult **
• Poetry
• High School (for students in grades 9-12)

Contest Fees:

• Prose categories - $10 reading fee per entry
• Poetry - 3 poems for $10 reading fee
• High School (no reading fee)

FOLLOW THESE EASY STEPS TO ENTER:

1. You MUST upload competition entry files from your personal account.
2. Check CONTEST RULES to make sure your work complies.
3. Create a Login Account.
4. Log in: My Account page is your place to register for the conference and enter the competition.
5. Choose option to enter the competition.
6. Pay your reading fee via your PayPal Account or credit card of your choice.
7. UPLOAD your entry per instructions.
8. You may UPLOAD as many entries as you like (reading fee applies to each entry) until competition closing date.

Last year, I really enjoyed the conference. In addition, I won the Young Adult competition and was published in The Washington Magazine. It's only in its second year, but it's growing. I highly recommend it if you are in the area.

Even if you can't go, please consider entering the writing competition: you don't have to be present to win and you don't have to attend the conference to enter. In addition, if you know high school students who love to write, please encourage them to enter. The winner gets a $500 cash scholarship prize.

Please share this information with anyone who is interested. Thank you.

Hope everyone has an amazing Friday!

** How cool is it that they have a YA category. Come on friends. I know you have stories to tell!

We have a winner!

Congratulations to:

KainsHottie

You are the winner of a signed paperback copy of Depression Cookies. I will be contacting you via email shortly. My lovely assistant, my oldest daughter Jackie, drew a name out of a hat this morning.

Thanks to everyone who entered and Michelle Flick of Oh! For the Love of Books for sponsoring the Falling Into Book Blog Hop. She is a fellow Campaigner and walked me through my very first blog hop giveaway. I'm grateful for the learning experience and look forward to participating in more.

Click the link below to check out the other winners:

Today also marks the first day of my October Ultimate Blog Challenge. Thanks to Michelle Shaeffer and Michele Scism for hosting this event. As part of this challenge I will post 31 times in October, hopefully as a post a day. I look forward to meeting new bloggers and focusing on my post writing.