Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest
Open to all attendees of When Words Collide 2020
You are invited to submit your original, unpublished written works of fiction in any genre to the 2020 Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest, In Places Between. There is no entry fee, but entrants must be passholders for the When Words Collide Festival.
Full details are available at https://ipbcontest.weebly.com/.
Contest Rules and Requirements
- Deadline for submissions is midnight on May 1, 2020
- All authors must be current passholders of the When Words Collide convention
- There is no contest entry fee
- Short stories of up to 4,000 words maximum
- Two submissions per entrant maximum
Please email all submissions to ipb.contest@gmail.com
Stories are judged on a combination of factors, including professional presentation, originality, ingenuity, entertainment factor, character, plot, spelling, grammar, and other authorial skills.
Prizes ($CDN)
$125.00 – First Place
$100.00 – Second place
$75.00 – Third place
$25.00 – Honorable mentions (7)
The top ten stories will be printed in the annual In Places Between book. A copy of this publication will be provided to each of the top ten authors.