Deadline 11/30/09
- Essay contest for Family Caregivers and Home Health Professionals
- Theme: What makes caregiving rewarding
- 1 page essay
- ShieldHealthCare
- Win up to $1000 worth of AMEX gift cheques
- No Entry Fee
- Flash Fiction Contest
- Open Theme
- 250-750 words
- WOW! Flash Fiction Contest
- 25 total prizes-- Top Prize includes $250 cash
- $10 entry fee
- Fiction/NonFiction Humor Contest
- max 750 words
- Mona Shreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction or NonFiction
- Prize Range $100-$500
- $5 entry fee-- Snail mail entry, deadline is postmark date
Best Wishes for you and your Writing!
P.S. These listings are just a few that are available in the monthly Scoop. This month's has listings of over 40 contests/markets requesting your writing.
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2 comments:
Tina, you said it all...if you put your mind to it. Many writers fear deadlines, get nervous and 'believe' they don't have what it takes to finish a project on time. It takes discipline, I agree, to meet deadlines but they do push your work forward.
Hi Lea! Having deadlines to shoot for when I started helped me to focus (still does). Otherwise, I had a vauge notion of wanting to write "something, sometime", but I didn't have a goal to shoot for, or even a specific theme! Then I started researching places that were looking for writing, and I had tons of ideas, places to send them to, and a time frame to work on them. Some things on my list (now The Scoop I offer on my site) went out 5 months or more, and I just kept them there, even if I didn't have an idea for it right away.
I think having a combination is helpful: projects you MUST have completed by a certain date, and those projects that will evolve in their own time. Writers just need to decide what works for them. I want writing to be my main job, so the title reinforces the need for deadlines, etc. But even as a hobby, having deadlines still can give a boost.
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