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12/13 – Literary Deathmatch and Bad Austen: FIGHT!
Are you looking for a good literary way to spank those who disagree with you? Are you a rebel with (or without) a cause, looking to pick a fight with only a pen and your prose? Have you got an itch to scratch the eyes out of another author’s head? Well, buddy, you’re in luck! This week we’ve got two writing contests sure to make your
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12/6 – Contests of Unusual Randomness
This week is a real mixed bag. Maybe it’s the crazy weather here in Austin, where one day is 80 degrees, the next is 50. Maybe it’s the fact that said crazy weather has given us a nasty cold, plugging up our nostrils and making everything that much harder to deal with. Whatever the deal is,
11/22 – Your regularly scheduled contest updates
This week it’s back to your regularly scheduled updates regarding writing contests from around the world (and around the web), but first, we’d like to extend a special thank-you to all those who entered our first annual KICK-ASS
Last chance to enter the KICK-ASS Writing Contest!
Only 4 days left to enter Black Heart’s KICK-ASS Writing Contest! Submissions are open until this Saturday, November 20, so get those fingers typing and send us your most KICK-ASS writing. Quickie guide to submitting your work: Write a short story, any genre. Max 5,000 words. Theme: Kicking ass Deadline:
Kick some ass in our KICK-ASS Writing Contest!
What are you waiting for? Black Heart’s first ever KICK-ASS Writing Contest is accepting submissions for a limited time only! Until November 20, to be exact. Attention literary rebels: submit to our writing contest and win a kick-ass $50 cash and a pile of books from Microcosm.
Black Heart’s KICK-ASS Writing Contest
Okay, we’re sick of writing about all the crappy writing contests out there. It’s annoying to keep posting them every week. So you know what? We’re starting our own!
It’ll be totally KICK-ASS. Hence our ingenious name.
Here’s the deal:
Write a short story, any genre.
10/18 – Writing contests we love to hate
The editorial staff are in collectively foul moods this week, so we’ve decided to amass a list of the annual writing contests we love to hate, to air our grievances with all that is wrong with the world of competitive writing. It’s not that (all) these contests are (necessarily) rip-offs,
Ladies Only, Gentlemen Forbidden?
This week’s contests take on the age-old acronym GOLF, which supposedly stands for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden.” Rebellious writers that we are, here at Black Heart we’ve decided to turn things upside down to focus on the “fairer sex,” with women’s-only
10/4 – Last minute contests due NOW!
This week’s writing contests are down to the wire, people, so get your pens and paper ready and write like the wind! But seriously, they Shya Scanlon 7-Line Story Contest is due today at midnight, Eastern time, so get cracking. The other two have a leisurely 2 to 3-week deadline on ‘em. But
9/27 – 3 “Big Guns” writing contests
Sometimes, you’ve just got to go big or go home. Our writing friends have recently been emphasizing the fact that certain literary mags are given far more weight by agents looking for new writers. Your work could be highly in demand after winning one of these contests, because they’re run
