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BONY PETE
Short Story Contest 2010

Rules, Guidelines and Entry Form

  1. Contest is open ONLY to Registered Bloody Words Attendees.

  2. Entry must be postmarked by April 15, 2010

  3. Stories must be fiction and a mystery (crime, suspense, private eye, amateur or professional)

  4. Toronto must figure in the story somehow--any time period allowed

  5. Must not exceed 5,000 words

  6. Must be typed/printed, double spaced, on regular white bond paper using 12-point Courier/Times New Roman, left justified

  7. One side of paper only with title and page number in upper right corner ( no author name )

  8. Cover sheet with entrant's name, address, phone number, story title, approximate word length.

  9. Entry must be accompanied by $5 entry fee

  10. Keep a copy of your final manuscript. No copies will be returned.

  11. Must be original and previously unpublished. You retain all rights.

 

Note: No manuscript will receive a critique.

There will be ONE Winner, who will receive a statue of Bony Pete, the much coveted Bloody Words Skeleton, as well as a cheque for $100.

The second place winner will receive a cheque for $50 and the third place winner, $25.

The winning story will appear in the Program Book of Bloody Words 2011. Whether the other two stories will be published or not is left to the discretion of the 2011 Gang.

Bloody Words Short Story Contest Entry Form

Download entry form here

(or fill out the online form below and print from your browser) 




Name: 

Address:

City:

postal code: 

phone: day  evening: 

e-mail: 

Story Title

Send
  • Entry form
  • $5.00 fee, payable to BLOODY WORDS
  • THREE copies of MS
to:

Bloody Words 2010 - Bony Pete Contest
900 Country Road 10 RR3
Picton Ontario, K0K 2T0

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