1ST QUARTER – FANTASY WRITING COMPETITION 2012

Welcome to our First Quarter  Writing Competition. It’s our first writing competition for 2012.

Popular Australian author, Felicity Pulman is our featured author this month and she has kindly agreed to donate two of her books as prizes. As well as these great prizes there will be other books and manuscript assessments to win!

In keeping with the theme of Feclity”s books, this month’s competition is Fantasy Stories of 500 WORDS OR LESS.

You can enter the first part of your story or the whole thing but whatever you submit, it must be 500 WORDS OR LESS.

WHO CAN ENTER:

There will be three categories in the competition:

• 8-12 year olds
• 13-17 years
• adults

On your covering email, please advise which category your are entering.

THE PRIZES

• Manuscript assessment of your 500 word story plus an additional 500 words.
• Great books

COST TO ENTER

• FREE: There is no cost to enter this competition

HOW TO ENTER

1.Submit a 500 word fantasy story you have written or the first 500 words of a fantasy story.

2.You MUST submit it in this format:

• 12 point type…Arial or Times Roman
• double spaced (spacing between lines)
• A4 sized page
• 3cm margins all the way around your page

3. Submit your entry by email to Dee@deescribe.com.au

4.Please put “Fantasy Story Submission” in the subject line of your email. In the subject line please also include ‘your name’ and the ‘name of your story’.

5. Competition opens 1st January 2012 and closes 31st March (Australian time)

All works must be unpublished. The judges decision is final.

Happy writing and Good Luck!

Dee:)