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Wordclay Short Story Contests: Three Weeks and Counting Down

May 13, 2008

Greetings, Earthlings,

The Publishing Robot Wordbot here, and I wanted to remind all those surfing the tsunami waves of the Internet that you only have t-minus three weeks and counting to submit to the Wordclay Single Short Story Contest and Short Story Collection Contest.

In other words, it’s not too late to e-mail your cover letters and stellar pieces to contests@wordclay.com as Microsoft Word attachments. Please double space all your entries, too. This robot’s fiber-optic implants aren’t what they used to be, and they don’t make reading glasses for androids without noses yet. So help a robot out and make your entries clear, so the judges and I can enjoy your prose.

Visit the Wordclay Contest Connection page for the complete guidelines and submission instructions.

Single Short Story Contest Deadline: May 31, 2008, 11:59 p.m. EST
Short Story Collection Contest Deadline: May 31, 2008, 11:59 p.m. EST

As the entries mount and I run submissions through my publishing-feed processor, my aluminum knees are knocking with excitement. This is your chance to register with Wordclay for free, and submit up to three stories for a chance to appear in Wordclay’s new anthology series, Best Modern Voices.

To review winning entries from the previous poetry contest, check out Volume 1: A Poetry Anthology, available in the Wordclay Bookstore.

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