Writing Rocks!!! - Write As Thou Wilt

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves to arrange words into beautiful art or to write a short story that is worthtelling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream. Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original.

Guidelines:
Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or form, typed or neatly hand printed.

And/or write a short story, five pages maximum length, on any subject or theme, creative writing fiction or non-fiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries and screenwriting). Also, must be typed or neatly hand printed.

Multiple poetry and short story entries are accepted.

Deadline: July 31, 2008

All winners will be announced on August 31, 2008

Prizes:
Writing Contest First Prize is $500. Second Prize: $250. Third Prize: $100.
Poetry Contest First Prize is $250. Second Prize: $125. Third Prize: $50.

Entry fees:
Writing Contest entry fee: $10 per short story submitted.
Poetry Contest entry fee: $5 per poem.

To send entries: Include title(s) with your story (ies) or poem(s), along with your name, address, phone#, email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself), on the coversheet. Add a
self-addressed stamped envelope for entry confirmation.

Mail entries/fees payable to: “DREAMQUESTONE.COM”

Dream Quest One
Poetry & Writing Contest
P.O. Box 3141
Chicago, IL 60654

Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for
further details or to enter!

Due to underwhelming participation in the challenges and the boards in general, I decided to close them. This blog will stay open to inform you of market news or other things of interest for writers, so stay tuned.

I don’t know about anyone else, but for me this year is simply flying by! That’s both good and bad!Anyway, it’s nearly challenge time again… 1 week today we’ll be kicking off our second 50 word a day challenge. Last September, I found this challenge really good for kicking me into doing some words every day. They weren’t always good words, but it was an excellent way to get me into a writing discipline. Therefore, I hope we can get a good turn out for this challenge!The idea is that you write 50 words a day (more if you can, obviously!). ‘50 words isn’t much!’ I hear you cry! Just remember you thought that when we’re part way through the month and you think ‘I don’t have time to do this today…’Part of writing is getting into a writing routine. Most of us don’t have time in our daily lives to sit and write for huge long stretches at a time every day. All of us write at different speeds. However, for most of us, 50 words a day should be a more than realistic goal.So, just for May, motivate yourself to get into a writing routine and join in the fun :-) 

March’s challenge is going to revolve around the Post Secret website (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/). New secrets are posted each Sunday. So, for each Sunday in March the challenge is to pick one of the secrets and use it to spark your writing; be that a bought of timed, free writing, a short story, a poem, or anything else that you might want to write!If you want to, share your writing with us in your thread on the challenge board, or over on the snippets board. Even if you don’t, let us know each week how working with the secrets are prompts went for you.I hope that the March challenge will be inspirational to us all!Good luck and happy writing.

We’ve just finalized this year’s challenge schedule and it goes as follows:

January: 2008 Kickoff Challenge (just running)
March: Post Secret challenge
May: Holly’s “Create A Plot” Clinic

- Summer Break -

September: 50 words a day
November: Mini NaNoWriMo

Of course, if someone has anything to add, there will always be place for more, so if you have an idea, don’t hesitate to mention it.

All challenges will be open for the public. Just click on the link at the top that says “Writing Rocks Boards” and you’ll be able to see the challenges and participate. Details for each challenge will follow as the challenges draw closer.

Watch this space!

Jeri & Deedlit