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Top 10 Big-Money Contests

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

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Purgatorial Incarceration

0 posted 2000-06-17 07:37 PM

The following list is from Writer's Digest's July 2000 issue.

PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award First Place: $10,000 and publication on Amazon.com and a literary journal selected by the sponsors. No deadline scheduled. Amazon.com Short Story Award

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize First Place: $10,000, plus travel expenses to Cincinnati for rehearsal. Deadline: Dec. 31. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Box 6537, Cincinnati, OH 45206-0537

North American Fiction Writers Award by PublishingOnline.com First Prize: $10,000. Deadline: Sept. 15. PublishingOnline.com

American Cinema Foundation Screenwritin Competition First Place: $10,000. Deadline: March 31, 2001. American Cinema Foundation

Final Draft International Screenplay Competition First Place: $10,000. Deadline: Sept. 30. Suite 800, 16000 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91436, Final Draft

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize, University of Pittsburgh Press First Prize: $10,000 and a contact with University of Pittsburgh Press. Deadline: May 1 - June 30, 2001. Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 3347 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition First Place: $5,000. Deadline: Aug. 1 - Nov. 1. Beverly Hills Theater Guild, 2815 N. Beachwood Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90068-1923

L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Grand Prize: $4,000, selected from four first-place winners of the quarterly contest ($1,000 each.) Deadlines: Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, June 30. Box 1630, Los Angeles, CA 90078, Writers of the Future

Writer's Digest 2000 Writing Competition (fiction/nonfiction/poetry) Grand Prize: $1,500 and winner's choice of a 3 day/2 night trip to New York City with a WD edito to meet with editors or agents or 5 days/4 nights at the 2001 Maui Writers Conference. Deadline: May 31, 2001. Writers Digest

Playboy College Fiction Contest First PLace: 3,000 includes publication. Deadline: Sept. 1, 2000 - Jan. 1 2001 ***Note: I tried linking to the website listed for this one, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working. So I'll list it out for you here and you can try it. www5.playboy.com/oncampus/exclusive/fiction/contest.html

I will be posting this in the Prose Forum as well, as it pertains more to prose than poetry.

Good luck!

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2000-06-20 09:33 PM

Can we talk in here or do you think the discussion forums are best to discuss Prose issues?

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