http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.php
The story topic is announced at noon, central time, April 26th, and we’re off! Only 500 applicants are allowed. There’s a $5.00 entry fee. The 1st prize is $300 bucks and publication on writersweekly.
Why am I doing this? Because it’s my idea of fun, that’s why. I can’t resist the challenge of writing to a prompt. Being prompted or pushed is sometimes the best way to get something on paper. I love thefirstline.com, which has a quarterly prompt of a first sentence from which writers must create a story. I’ve only submitted one, which was summarily rejected. But I’ve written stories to several of their prompts. I love that they say their inspiration for the first line prompt is from the movie Out of Africa. In the movie, Meryl Streep/Isak Dinesen says that she likes to tell stories but someone must always supply the first line, and it can be absolutely anything. One of her dinner guests concocts a twisty, incongruous line, and she runs with it, mesmerizing them with the way she can create something of beauty from something meant to stump her.
This 24-hour short story prompt will either be a romp or a pile of rubble, as these things to. We’ll see.
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