Date:ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:06:24 -0600 From: Robyn Herrington Subject:ÿÿÿÿÿ WOW: Fourth annual WRITERS Halloween Contest Or is it the Fifth Annual Writers Halloween Contest? Good lordy, either way I've been at this list a long time. ;) ANNOUNCING THE 4TH (MAYBE 5TH) ANNUAL WRITERS HALLOWEEN CONTEST * Halloween fiction. Sorry, no poetry, songs, stage plays. JUST FICTION. Go on, scare us. I dare you! Make it creepy, ooky, spooky, dripping, oozing, pulsing, blood-curdling.... * 3,500 word limit. Firm. * Submit entries to me (ROBYN HERRINGTON) at rmherrin@ucalgary.ca between October 1st and midnight on October 15th. I'll strip the names/sig files and post each piece of fiction to the list anonymously. Likewise, if you wish to critique a story -- and I do encourage it -- send critiques to me and I'll pass them along to the authors. DO NOT CRIT to the list. Your opinion may influence another. * Voting will take place from October 16th - October 30th. I'll tally the votes and the winner will be announced on October 31st .... All Hallow's Eve. HOW TO VOTE: Send me your votes for the top 5 stories, just like this: First place: Were chicken of Evanstown County Second place: All That Matters Third place: Instincts Maternal Fourth place: Zoe Forever Fifth place: The Man Who Sold Rope To The Gnoles I will, of course, expect you to vote for the actual titles in the contest, and not re-use these ones. ;) *** YOU MAY NOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN STORY *** My contest, my rules. So there. ;) WHAT THE WINNERS GET: The 5 winners will recieve a glass paperweight, made by my own little hands. The First Place winner will also get another goodie, yet to be determined. Let's see, did I cover everything? Halloween contest: FICTION Word count 3,500 Send to ME rmherrin@ucalgary.ca Critiques to ME rmherrin@ucalgary.ca Dates: October 1st - 15th for submissions Voting dates: October 16th - 30th Vote First place, second place.... No voting for your own... There. I think I covered everything. Now, could someone tell me if it's the fourth or fifth year I've been at this! Robyn (I'm old now. I forget things.) ================================================================ Robyn Herrington, Editor rmherrin@ucalgary.ca New Currents in Teaching and Technology InfoServe www.ucalgary.ca/~rmherrin University of Calgary Phone: 220-2561 Leadership lifts a person's vision to higher sites, raises a person's performace to higher standards and builds a personality beyond its normal limitations -- Peter Drucker =================================================================