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Date Posted: 23:01:15 10/17/05 Mon GMT-5
Author: Roger
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Subject: Re: Fiddle- dee -dee
In reply to: Lori 's message, "Fiddle- dee -dee" on 22:12:32 10/17/05 Mon GMT-5

MIght as well be wine, you can't buy much Guiness for $25.00. Maybe the secret of those expensive competitions is to imitate the style of someone who has 17 books out, and confuse the judges...

Roger

p.s. I'm on my way to spend three days in Muddy York. Her Majesty's Government is sending me. Post prolifically pending my putatively perfected peregrination.

>Yes, I've been doing plenty of thinking about that
>tomorrow, too. I know what you mean about contests,
>Roger. Sometimes I think you've got a better chance
>just sending stuff in to magazines (and you also don't
>have to pay). Then again, like Diane, I had some
>contest winnings this year -- the Alice Munro Festival
>contest, where I won second place, and Alberta
>Anthology is also run as a contest.
>
>I did enter the TWUC Short Prose thing again this
>year. True, the fee's $25.00 -- then again, the prize
>is $2500. The deadline's Nov. 1. And there's the CBC
>Literary Awards, also Nov. 1 deadline, $20.00 entry
>fee, which I'm waffling about -- the past winners
>always seem to be these people with seventeen books
>out and a PhD. But I think it's blind judging, and
>isn't first prize $4000 or something?
>
>Maybe I'd be better off keeping my $20.00. Or spending
>it on wine.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Lori
>
>
>
>>Well, I'm sort of thinking about entering the Writer's
>>Union competition, but then, I mutter, that could be
>>just a waste of $27.00 since it's so hotly contested.
>>
>>This year, I tried two contests.I entered the This
>>Magazine short story contest and didn't win place or
>>show. The Niagara CAA competition had a cheaper entry
>>fee and I won second prize. Maybe I should jut keep my
>>'average' to one out of two this year, or maybe I
>>should throw caution and money into the wind. I'll
>>think about that tomorrow.
>>
>>Diane
>>
>> >I am just wondering if anyone is in a competition,
>or
>>>has been, this year.
>>>
>>>I've sorta decided to leave competitions alone, and
>>>try and get my work published in real magazines. That
>>>is also a sort of competition. I might go for a
>>>competition if I had a piece that was hard to place
>in
>>>a genre magazine, though. I am still trying to place
>>>one story like that.
>>>
>>>Roger

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