This year's fifth annual, free to enter, Cafedoom Writing Competition is looking like being the best ever, despite the generally gloomy economic outlook.
Recession - what recession?
This year we've teamed up with James Beach of Dark Discoveries, and Matt Schwartz of Shocklines to offer a very nice prize fund for the best stories. James will be judging three winners from the top ten. He is stumping up the cash to pay the first place author five cents a word and will publish their tale in Dark Discoveries Magazine during the 2010 print run.
In addition, Matt has again, very kindly, split the cost of the runner's up prizes with me 50/50, so second place gets $100 of Shocklines vouchers, and third place gets $50 of Shocklines vouchers, to spend on anything from signed special editions to horror DVDs.
To sweeten the pot a little more, I'm going to give a year's subscription of Dark Discoveries Magazine to the authors my three favourite stories. James needs to sell 75 subscriptions by the end of the year to help fund a pay rise for contributing authors next year, so please follow my example and grab a subscription yourself, maybe buy one for a friend's, Mom's, Dads, brother's, sister's, son's, daughter's, lover's birthday present, Halloween or even Christmas gift - they're only twenty-two bucks a pop for a year's subscription, and well worth every penny. One of those gifts that keeps giving, too.
This year we've teamed up with James Beach of Dark Discoveries, and Matt Schwartz of Shocklines to offer a very nice prize fund for the best stories. James will be judging three winners from the top ten. He is stumping up the cash to pay the first place author five cents a word and will publish their tale in Dark Discoveries Magazine during the 2010 print run.
In addition, Matt has again, very kindly, split the cost of the runner's up prizes with me 50/50, so second place gets $100 of Shocklines vouchers, and third place gets $50 of Shocklines vouchers, to spend on anything from signed special editions to horror DVDs.
To sweeten the pot a little more, I'm going to give a year's subscription of Dark Discoveries Magazine to the authors my three favourite stories. James needs to sell 75 subscriptions by the end of the year to help fund a pay rise for contributing authors next year, so please follow my example and grab a subscription yourself, maybe buy one for a friend's, Mom's, Dads, brother's, sister's, son's, daughter's, lover's birthday present, Halloween or even Christmas gift - they're only twenty-two bucks a pop for a year's subscription, and well worth every penny. One of those gifts that keeps giving, too.
Stories should be at the very least dark, and may have elements of anything from sci-fi to pulp fiction. It's wide open, so just send us your best story. Word limit is 3,500 and the closing date is 30th October 09. For a full list of details please visit - http://www.cafedoom.com/forum/index.php?topic=2812.0
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I hope you don't mind me duplicating this post to the writing group, Nicolas -- topics disappear so quickly from the main discussion board, and I though
this would be of interest to you guys. Do you put out a newsletter? If so, I'd really appreciate it if you could include a note about the CafeDoom comp.
Thanks 
