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2010 CONTEST INTRO/ ERASED



2010 INTRO --- "EVERYONE HAS A HALLOWEEN STORY "

BE READY for tricks & treats, my pretties. Guys, glad when you're hanging around these spooky halls, just in case they ALL scare me silly.

WELCOME EVERYONE!!!

TEFF here to say ... LET'S ROCK THE WORLD,

VIA CREATIONS & FORUM POSTS: LET'S EMBRACE AUTUMN!!!

To enter this contest, please post bitems/item ID# into entry posts below, adding your entry onto this forum.

Note: The title of your post need not be specific. You may even use the title of your story or poetry in the post, e.g.

IN THIS FORUM === Below you may view writing hints, consider these treats. And we know WRITING is tricky!

~~~~ PLEASE, contestants --- recall --- "As with our writing below: THINK IMPRESS!!"

This year, sweethearts, dear authors & poets .... I hope you really work out. I hope to see ONLY your very very best ... from old or new stories/ poems/ articles never submitted to this contest before.

~~~~ Yes, the acronym EHAHS, "EVERYONE HAS A HALLOWEEN STORY " sister to "EVERYONE HAS A CHRISTMAS STORY" ----

AFFORDS ALL a place to excel. My XMAS Contest allows authors to write seasonal works reaching to deadline date of Jan. 2011. So later, maybe you'll elect crafting works in sequence mode --- FALL to WINTER ... whew lot's of serious plotlines ahead there.

"EVERYONE HAS A HALLOWEEN STORY " DEADLINE: Nov. 27, 2010

NO WORD COUNT LIMITS. A SHORT STORY IS FINISHED WHEN IT IS DONE! So, entrants need not fear hassle re: quick cut offs for current pens, also those previously cut to threads can now be revamped, you see?

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ACCEPTING:

ARTICLES
SHORT STORIES
POETRY
PHOTOS
ART

PRIZES FOR BEST SHORT STORY --- 30,000 GP
Second Place --- 10,000 gp

POETRY --- 5,000 GP for First Place
PHOTOS --- 1,000 gp (and flexible for number of winners)

DONATIONS WELCOME.
Shall provide a donor's list, upon arrival.


SUBMISSIONS:
1. Bitem format for entries.
2. Forum posts are fine. If over 500 worders, please use a bitem.
3. Post the bitem below in the forum area for all entries.
4. Posting is welcome on Halloween or writing topics or just to talk --- whatever.

NO sameness or repeats for anything submitted to Miss TEFF in 2009.

ACCEPTING MULTIPLE ENTRIES PER CONTESTANT.

SHORT STORY READING FEE --- 2,000 GP each

POETRY READING FEE --- 500 GP each

ARTICLES: FREE
PHOTO or ART SUBMISSIONS: FREE

OFFICIAL OPENING:
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 ---
DEADLINE --- Nov 27, 2010

MAIN THEME: CONTEST REQUIREMENT:

Each submission must contain the words: Halloween, or date/ Oct 31, or a proximity such as ALL Hallow's Eve. ETC.

PLEASE EMAIL donations and reading fees directly to:
TEFF'S ON KINDLE!!! (97) Thank YOU!!

FYI -- Miss TEFFY's first contest EVER was in genre of Ripperology. Marvelous fun, certainly ran a few years. SEE: "JACK THE RIPPER HALL OF FAME"

Complete, pondering & ALL JUDGING is fair, drawing on time for thinking/ visualizing as I read the work at hand. ALL BECAUSE, I simply adore receiving seasonal pens & material from real folks from all walks of life, sent from or set all over the world!

PRIMARILY seeking the best stories via: contempory, realism, ghost stories, tall tales -- all genre of note, also humour, vampire, historical settings (etc) under the guise of creative, entertaining stories!!! ETC, ETC. Your call.

ALL GENRE WELCOME/ but not erotica.
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This post says it all "PEP TALK"
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Autumn is my favorite season, surely not alone there.
Thanks for reading.

SHORT STORIES: GRAND PRIZE: 30,000 GP
Short Story: Second Place: 10,000 gp
PHOTOS == 1,000 gp prize each from those chosen.

2010 -- UPDATE: This year am also hosting another (separate) writing contest open online for a cash prize. Right now, it is a work in progress and shall later be advert-ed in WDC: Classifieds. Same theme: Deadline April 1, 2011 --- Word limit: 7K words.

Ah, the leaves be turning LET'S listen to the wind --

http://norbert26.com/midi_1/amazinggrace-2.mid

http://norbert26.com/midi_1/amazinggrace_2.mid

Meanwhile, the beat goes on ...
ENJOY AUTUMN!!!

TESTING: Music !!!

Heeeeeeeeerrrrrreeeee's the link! Yawsa NORBERT RULES!!!



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http://norbert26.com/halloween/bewitched.mid

TO view THE RIPPER RETRUNS TO WHITECHAPEL COURT BY MARY MOFFETT visit:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/BOO5IYFGVQ

To reach ROMANCE ON THE BAY OF FUNDY see

http://www.amazon.com/dp/BOO5IWDIYU
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