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Writer’s Guidelines:

Writer Advice Contests for 2019-2020

Next year’s contests will be posted very soon. I am considering one fee for reading and ranking (no response to submitter) and a higher fee for those who appreciate the detailed feedback that has helped so many.

What’s your opinion?

In every contest you are guaranteed feedback from an award winning writer, and you have the opportunity to earn a cash prize.

We’re accepting submissions to the Flash Memoir Contest from January 2 through March 2, 2020.

We’re accepting submissions to the Flash Fiction Contest from April 1 through June 1, 2020.

A flash contest for both memoir and fiction, focusing responding to a topic I will post in late June, will run from July 1, 2020 through September 1, 2020.

We’re currently accepting submissions to our increasingly popular Scintillating Starts Contest from October 2 through December 1, 2019.

Click on Latest Contest Guidelines on the home page for prizes, fees, and other details.

Please direct all questions, but not submissions, to Lgood67334 at Comcast dot net. Submissions come through Submittable and the link is in the tan box on the home page. We look forward to reading your work.
 

SHARE A MARKETING SUCCESS TIP: 

  1. Are you a book marketing expert?
  2. Are you a writer who tried something that worked?
  3. Do you want to recommend a publicist who helped you out? 

Share your idea in a brief query submitted through the Contact box on the home page. If we like your idea and it hasn’t already been done here, we’ll get back to you shortly. Thanks for helping yourself as well as others. 

 

QUALITY, CLARITY, ORIGINALITY, EPIPHANY

BOOK REVIEWERS:

Query first. 

Only review books you recommend.

  • While balance is good in a review, the ones for Writer Advice should be at least 80% positive.
  • Honor the thought, effort, and creativity of authors.
  • Write about what makes the book appealing, different, unique, and worth the time it takes to read it.
  • Use plot points to illustrate what you say, but do not summarize the plot.
  • Reviews should run only 200-300 words since it is 25% harder to read online.
 
The editor reserves the right to cut your work or ask you to cut it if it is longer.
 
Thank you for sharing your reviews with Writer Advice. You earn a credit for your writing resume, good karma, and a boost to your ego when your work appears in WriterAdvice.