Short story contest ends September 12th.

Directions:

1. Entries must be between 500 and 1500 words.
2. Email your entry to ifyougiveagirl@gmail.com.
3. The Girls will choose the top five.
4. The final stories will be posted September 12 (two weeks).
5. Comment on your favorite short to elect the winner!
6. Winner will receive a copy of Donut Days.

Here are the three prompts: Choose one that fits your style.

1.Visual Prompt

2. Musical Prompt

3. Finish-the-Sentence Prompt
As I rounded the corner my nostrils filled with the acrid stench of smoke. Flashing lights, headlights, and an flickering glow filled the blackness, making the generic streetlights no longer necessary…

Good Luck!

Rules for Short Stories

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Here at IYGAGAP we’re all about keeping it real…so that’s why it’s time for another contest! Grab that laptop and a spare half hour (okay–maybe hour) and get ready to pound out a short story.

Directions:

1. Entries must be between 500 and 1500 words.
2. Email your entry to ifyougiveagirl@gmail.com.
3. The Girls will choose the top five.
4. The final stories will be posted September 12 (two weeks).
5. Comment on your favorite short to elect the winner!
6. Winner will receive a copy of Donut Days.

Are you ready?

Here are the three prompts: Choose one that fits your style.

1.Visual Prompt

2. Musical Prompt

3. Finish-the-Sentence Prompt
As I rounded the corner my nostrils filled with the acrid stench of smoke. Flashing lights, headlights, and an flickering glow filled the blackness, making the generic streetlights no longer necessary…

Go!!

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Solve this problem:

I gripped the wheel hard, my widened eyes taking in as much of the awful scene as possible. The trees approached too quickly, my headlights flashing over the endless sea of them on the side of the road.

No way a car can fit through there.

Squeals from the tires filled the cab somehow. All I could think was…

Enter to win a pack of Uniball pens. Winner will be chosen at random Saturday July 11th. At this time, we are only permitted to ship prizes within the Continental US.

Good luck and get creative!!

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Beth was the inspiration for this post. On May 25th she said to give her a problem, and she’d write a book to solve it. So I thought, what a great idea. How many different stories can we get from this one problem?

He held the knife and watched in shock as blood oozed through his fingers and ran down his hand. Sirens pierce the night air. He had no where to run.

How does your MC get out of this? Did he kill someone? What happened?

Let us know. By leaving a story, however long or short, (but you must solve the problem) you enter in a drawing to win a pack of Uni-ball Pens!

Have fun and solve this! Entries accepted until Monday June 15 at 11:59 p.m.

*And sorry, at this time, we can only send prizes to the Continental US.

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Sarah is writer looking for an agent. She is currently working on novel # 4, editing novels 2 and 3, and querying novel # 1. For more insight to her work, visit: http://legendoftheprotectors.wordpress.com/ or http://legendoftheprotectors.blogspot.com/

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JODY REALE’S “It’s like someone tossed a Baby Ruth into the gene pool.”

We would like to congradulate her, and thank everyone who entered.

Jody, if you could please email us your address, we will mail you your prize.

Thanks,

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Okay, totally dorky, but you looked, didn’t you.

We are hosting a new contest!

Share with us your funniest line from your manuscript. If you need to set it up, by all means, do. Some things lose their humor with out proper set up.

What’s that one line that your best friend spewed soda all over her computer screen? Share it!

Contest runs until Tuesday, 14 April 2009.

This week’s contest is sponsored by the gang over at uniball pens! The winner will receive a two pack of smooth writing pens.  Get it?  We are giving girls pens.  (Yeah, we can be funny around here too.)

Okay, so look through the mss and leave your entry in the comment section here.

Have fun, and let’s have some laughs!

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