June Contests Update and Prompts List

CONTESTS

--Toasted cheese Midsummer Tale writing contest:

http://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/contest.htm#amt

The theme of the 2013 A Midsummer Tale writing contest is: Retreat / Encounter.

Summer is often a time when normal routines are set aside. Sometimes it's a time to venture outside one's comfort zone, to encounter something challenging or unexpected. Sometimes it's a time to hit pause or reset, to retreat from overscheduled everyday life. Sometimes it can be both. For the 2013 A Midsummer Tale Writing Contest, write a story—fiction or nonfiction—of retreat and/or encounter.

Deadline: June 21

--Writers Tribe Review

https://writerstribereview.submittable.com/submit

Writers Tribe Review is a multi-genre online literary magazine that accepts unpublished works of: drama, fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, creative critical essays, graphic shorts, hyptertexts, multimedia, original artwork, and photography. Please do not submit excerpts from larger pieces, unless otherwise stated in our call for submissions.

We're currently collecting submissions for this Fall in: The Humor Issue

All entries must pertain to this theme. (We're not saying that humor is an issue, but we wish to issue humor. Yes.) Each piece should be no more than 3,000 words. 

Deadline: Submissions are due on August 30, 2013, at midnight.

--Links to a variety of upcoming contests:

http://www.fanstory.com/page/writing_contest/writing_contest.jsp

PROMPTS

--Inspired by the book Buried Life; write whatever inspires you about one of these statements

     Before I die I want to:

     --write a novel 

     --have a party with fake alcohol...and see how many people act like they're wasted

     --spread my father's ashes in the lake where he drowned

--Taken from toastedcheese.com, June 2012:

A vintage silver Mercedes.

He left a $100 tip for a $6 meal.

Her pessimism about the world evaporated.

Use a fern, a red balloon and pearl earrings in a short story or poem.

Describe a strange museum.

Write about a piece of bad advice.

Write about not following conventional wisdom.

Write about something that was once alive.

"Look me in the eyes."

"He has the personality of an earthworm."

Is the glass half empty or half full?

Use the following words: 

--child, clinging, first, black, newly.

--wild, burnt, go, time, whip

--hill, danced, entire, rather, makes.

--abuse, thin, truth, points, elements