Writer's Digest Popular Fiction competition.

[Ted]

A Short Story Competition from Writer’s Digest.

Devise a thriller. Scare up a horror. Entice a romance from your most tender recesses. Whatever your genre, we’ve got the category for you.

Choose your favorite genre and enter your best in 4,000 words or less. Each of the 6 categories offers the a place for everybody’s story.

Compete and Win in All 6 Categories! Entry Deadline: September 14, 2012

Wondering what’s in it for you?

• A chance to win the Grand Prize including $2,500 and a trip to the 2013 Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City.
  
• A chance to win one of the six $500 Category First Prizes
  
• Get your fiction story featured in Writer’s Digest and on WritersDigest.com
  
• Win $100 off a purchase at www.writersdigestshop.com
  
• Receive a copy of the 2013 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market
  

If you've got more than one story in mind, be sure to consider one of our other genre categories - you can compete in each one.

The grand prize winner receives $2500 and a trip to the 2013 Writer's Digest Conference in New York City, including access to editors, agents, and other industry insiders! First place winners in each category will receive $500 and will be featured in Writer's Digest magazine and on writersdigest.com.

Main information page for the contest.

Entry form for contest is here.

Main web site for Writer's Digest.

I don't know if there is a fee for entry, like there is with the Global Ebook Awards, but the reward is much better.

[nathan goater]

It looks like the fee entries are $20 per entry

[ahpellett]

Aug 13, 2012 5:31:30 GMT -8 nathan goater said:

It looks like the fee entries are $20 per entry

Am I the only one who finds these competition's price points to be too high? Given the chances of winning, $20 seems awful high a price to pay to play.

Now that said, I did major in Econ and understand that the market will price at what the market will bear. So if they can get away with pricing their game at $20, perhaps I'm just a crank. Then again, they may be depriving themselves of quality entries.

So I ask, do $20 competitions stifle your urge to compete in them?

[Ted]

I don't enter any contest that charges an entry fee.

[Julie Harris]

I entered the Kindle Book Review's Best Indie Book 2012 competition. $15 entry fee. I'm glad I did, because No Exit is now a semi finalist in the competition; it was given a 5 star review by one of the leading Amazon reviewers who also blogged about it, and in June, sales started to take off for this book.
20 years ago, I got my start in publishing by entering an Australian womens magazine writing competition, so when I first saw the email about this particular comp, I thought, hmm, I wonder... Then I thought, why not? What's to lose by having a go?
Julie.

[Nathaniel Phillips]

Aug 15, 2012 13:14:29 GMT -8 ahpellett said:

Aug 13, 2012 5:31:30 GMT -8 nathan goater said:

It looks like the fee entries are $20 per entry

Am I the only one who finds these competition's price points to be too high? Given the chances of winning, $20 seems awful high a price to pay to play.

Now that said, I did major in Econ and understand that the market will price at what the market will bear. So if they can get away with pricing their game at $20, perhaps I'm just a crank. Then again, they may be depriving themselves of quality entries.

So I ask, do $20 competitions stifle your urge to compete in them?

I would not pay $20 to enter a competition like this.