Dear Reader,
Today's the day! The launch of the 16th Annual Write a DearReader Contest.
Don't start thinking to yourself, 'I'm not a writer.' Because I started the writing contest 16 years ago, for someone exactly like you. Everyone has at least a 650-word story inside of them (the maximum number of words allowed in an entry), and I'd love to read yours.
The Write a DearReader contest is all about writing for fun and you're allowed to collaborate with a friend, or spouse. Two people can work together on an entry. If your entry is chosen as a First Place ($200 cash prize), Second Place ($100), or Third Place ($50) winner, I will donate a 50% matching gift to your local library in your honor. And the winning entries will be featured in my daily column.
So get busy and start writing. Write about your grandmother's favorite recipe, tell me about your favorite or most obnoxious neighbor. What's the one word that would best describe you? What's your wish, but it hasn't come true yet? Write down the conversation you'd have with your cat or dog if they could talk.
Tell me about a perfect first date, or one that made you run the other way. Write about your favorite aunt, a bizarre and whimsical woman who vacuums her living room in the buff. Write about unusual words like 'poppysmic.' When does your passion shine? When do you pull up the covers and hide-out from fear? Serious, funny, embarrassing situations, thoughts about life, fiction, nonfiction, the topics are endless.
Does the thought of writing something that people will read give you the willies? Perfect. There's your topic--write about your fear of writing. But start writing about something, because it's time to enter my 16th Annual Write a DearReader Contest.
To review the guidelines and to read last year's winning entries, click here.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Start writing and have fun,
Suzanne Beecher
[email protected]
AUTHORBUZZ: Click here to discover new books, "meet" the authors and enter to win.
DAWSON'S FALL (Fiction) by Roxana Robinson
Captain Frank Dawson was an English journalist; Sarah Morgan, the beautiful daughter of a Baton Rouge judge. After the Civil War they married in Charleston, S. C., where at first they flourished: he as an influential editor, she, writer and mother. Later his views on race were considered too progressive, then his household was fatally disrupted by a sinister neighbor. This is the story of a literary romance, a true crime, racial politics and the real history of my great-grandparents.
Go to: AUTHORBUZZ click on DAWSON'S FALL to read more and to email author Roxana Robinson, you'll get a reply.
KIDSBUZZ: Click here to discover new books, "meet" the authors and enter to win.
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