September 18, 2006
9:55 AM MST
Longevity in the Good Ole 2nd CD and the Hammons Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction
Morning,
Nice to see my readership list growing. Below is an announcement I've posted in several literary discussion groups (didn't get the response I was hoping for, but I'm not too worried about it since my Authors' discussion group now has 3,900+ members, partly thanks to other publicity surrounding my contest).
But I also wanted to note a just-released study by Harvard researcher Dr. Christopher Murray. In short, five of the ten counties with the
longest life expectancies in the nation lie in Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, all west of Boulder County. Hmm...maybe all this
MySpace canvassing will pay off in the year 2060 or so ;-)...
WRHAMMONS.COM is pleased to announce the Hammons Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction! Here are the contest rules:
Prizes of $75, $50, and $25 will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place poems, and and prizes of $75, $50, and $25 will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place short stories, payable via Paypal or mailed check.
Each entrant may enter only one poem and one story each.
There is a 7,000-word maximum on all poems and stories (be aware that, if your entered poem or story requires more than one posting, each part will need to be clearly identified as part of a larger whole).
All entries must be original works written by the poster, cannot contain any copyright violations, and cannot be part of a larger work (i.e., no book excerpts, etc.).
All contestants must post their entries in the "Hammons Prizes for Poetry" and "Hammons Prizes for Short Fiction" topics in the WRHAMMONS.COM's Authors Who Want to Find a Literary Agent and Get Their Book Published MySpace discussion group (poems or stories not posted in those two topics will not be considered for prize purposes). Feedback, commentary, etc. will be deleted from these topics.
All entries must be posted in the appropriate topic before 12:01am, October 1, 2006.
Each entry will be graded on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the worst score and 10 being the best) by each of the three judges. The entry with the highest total score from the three judges will receive 1st place, and so forth. Any ties for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place will be broken by a simple majority vote among the three judges (i.e., a 2/3 vote breaks the tie).
The winners of the Hammons Prizes will be announced on October 16, 2006.
The three winning poems and three winning stories will be posted prominently in the forums section of WRHAMMONS.COM (entry of a poem or story in the contest grants permission for the posting of the work on WRHAMMONS.COM in perpetuity).
September 1, 2006
3:31 PM MST
Just thought I'd make a note of this ;-)...
Boulder County, which includes Boulder's more conservative suburbs, is 37% Democratic, 27% Republican, and 36% independent - wikipedia.org
