Date:         Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:31:14 +0100
From: An-tAthair-Siorai Press Gp <litterateur@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      SUB: CONTEST: With Prizes!!

Following the undoubted success of the Halloween contest,
I propose a short pre-Christmas contest to keep everyone
on their toes.

Drabble Writing Contest.

A Drabble is a short piece of descriptive prose using
exactly one hundred words, excluding the title. It should
require no explanatory notes or asides and be complete
within itself. Hyphenated words count as two separate
words unless defined as such in the OED.

Entries should be sent direct to me at:

 litterateur@t-online.de

from whence they will be forwarded to the entire list
for criticism and judging. All entries will have names
and details of the writer removed before appearing on
the list.

The Drabbles - writers may enter as many as they wish -
should come under the subjects of 'Emotion' or 'Vision'
or a combination of the two.

Foul language is considered unnecessary; there are enough
descriptives in the English language to render all
obscenities obsolete.

Entries must have a subject line:

 DRABBLE: <title>.

The subject headings will be changed before submission
to the list. The special subject heading is to differentiate
contest mail from the 2500 - 3000 other items of mail I
receive each day.

Closing date for entries is 30 November 1997. Judging will
be through the list and finish by 10 December 1997 with the
results being announced a few days later. Judging will be
direct to:

 litterateur@t-online.de

on a points system. The best Drabble receives three points,
the second best two points and the third choice one point.
Tne Drabbles receiving the highest points will win. All contest
entries may be criticised on the list in the normal fashion.

Prizes.

First prize will be a copy of 'No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1996'
by George Steiner, published by Faber and Faber, 1996.

Second and third prizes will be a copy each of 'Lacrimae Rerum:
Last Poems (1985)' by Nicholas Moore, published by Open Township
& Poetical Histories, 1988.

Adam An-tAthair-Siorai
An-tAthair-Siorai Press Group
litterateur@t-online.de
Kirch Strasse 17, D-27318 Hoya, Germany