Entry Fee: $5
Deadline: September 25, 2009
Guidelines: http://www.storyteller1.upcsites.org/page/page/3773128.htm
This is the second year of this writing contest and it is open to any genre. Winners are published in an anthology, sold on the website. Cash prizes range from $50 for first prize to $10 for honorable mention.
Entry Fee: FREE
Deadline: August 30, 2009
Guidelines: http://www.newmysteries.org/submission_guidelines/
Do you love to write mysteries, cozies, adventures, who-dunnits, or thrillers? The International Mystery Writers Festival, has sponsored this contest since 2007. Awards are given to the winners at the annual festival in Owensboro, Kentucky. There are over $20,000 in prizes, with $5,000 allotted for the “Most Promising New Writer” category. The prizes are provided through sponsorship by the Kentucky Arts Council, Barnes and Noble, the Kentucky Department of Tourism, and many more agencies.
The prestigious Angie Awards, which are named in honor of Angela Lansbury, star of the Murder She Wrote television and book series, are given to the winners in addition to the cash prizes. Attendance at the festival is open to anyone, so you may want to consider it if you live near Owensboro, or if you’re planning a trip near there.
There is no word limit for the mysteries. Instead, the contest imposes a time limit. The story or play must be able to be read or performed in under an hour. Many well established writers compete for prizes, as well as new writers competing in their own category.
All submissions and author information should be mailed to:
“Discovering New Mysteries” at RiverPark
Attn: Kimberly Johnson,
Festival Coordinator
101 Daviess Street
Owensboro, KY 42302
Do not include your name on your manuscript, as the submissions are judged blind. Put your author information on a separate page and include it in the submission envelope. Competition is fierce, so send your best work.
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During the month of July and August, I’ll be focusing on how to set up a classroom. Teachers start thinking about classroom organization and classroom management long before the bell rings on the first day of school. Each Tuesday, I’ll post the links to my most popular and widely read classroom and teaching articles both on the TeacherWriter blog and on Suite101.com. If you want to read the articles all at once, fill your mind with classroom organizing tips, plan your teaching strategy for the year, just click on the category Teaching Tips on the left hand side of this blog. You can also click on my Suite101 profile on the right hand side of this blog and get a complete listing of my articles there. I’ll have more teaching and organizing articles appearing on Suite101.
Today’s Theme: Organize Your Class With Color
There are many ways to organize a classroom, but I have found that color systems work the best for most teachers. You can help students get organized with color as well.
Organize Your Class With Color
Organizing Tips That Teach Students Study Skills
How to Get Students Into Groups
Now that you know what to do to and how to plan for classroom organization, next Tuesday I’ll give you a teacher list of supplies to buy for the beginning of the year. You can subscribe by RSS or follow me on Twitter if you don’t want to miss a single article.
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