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Writing Contests

7/15/2013

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I recently started entering a monthly writing contest that I found in a group on LinkedIn.  I totally stumbled on the page by accident when I first signed up for the networking site a few months ago and didn't even realize what I had joined until the middle of last month.  I penned a short poem for the June Poetry Contest that I will be posting here this week once the winners are announced_.  I don’t have any delusions that I will win anything, but like they always say about the lottery, you can’t win unless you enter.  Fortunately, unlike the lottery, the chances of winning here are much better and I honestly consider just the extra push to get me to write something beautiful to be winning enough.

That being said, I started thinking about other possibilities for writing contests and did come across a few online.  Writer’s Digest has a bunch of different contests broken down by genre including poetry, science fiction, young adult, and romance.  There is a website called WritersViews.com that has a listing of FREE writing contests for this year and next and Poets & Writers has a few contests available as well.

The contest that I entered last month (and plan on continuing to enter as long as I can find the right inspiration) is a subgroup under the Aspiring Writers Group on LinkedIn.  There is a monthly short story contest and a poetry contest which run for roughly 15 days each so as not to overlap with each other.  Each one offers a short prompt and from there you’re pretty much free to go where you please.  I would love to see your words up there soon!

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