Announcing the fourth annual Apex Halloween Short Story Contest

http://www.apexbookcompany.com/news/2009/06/announcing-the-fourth-annual-apex-halloween-short-story-contest/

I’m pleased to announce the details of the fourth annual Apex Halloween Short Story Contest!

Contest rules in a nutshell:
Theme: Urban myths with an alien origin
Deadline: October 15th, 2009
Word Count: Maximum of 2,500 words
Submission Address: halloween@apexbookcompany.com

The prize this year is publication in Jennifer Brozek’s upcoming Apex anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind. First place gets publication and payment of 8 cents per word for their story (and a copy of the antho). Second place gets publication and payment of 5 cents per word for their story (and a copy of the antho). Jennifer’s anthology is invite only, so these will be the only open spots available to non-solicited manuscripts.

The Apex editing team will choose the ten to fifteen best stories and submit those to Jennifer. Jennifer will proceed to pick the winner and runner-up for publication. Her anthology can be described as “combining the dark allure of urban legends with the high stakes of alien encounters”.

Best of luck!

Send a Friend to Gen Con Indy 2009!

Flames Rising ezine is hosting a "Send a Friend to Gen Con Indy 2009!" contest and I am one of their prize sponsers with a signed copy of the GRANTS PASS anthology. All the information is here: http://www.flamesrising.com/gencon-2009-send-a-friend/

Guidelines: Send us your recommendation via our Flames Rising contact form. Let us know who you are and who you are nominating for the prize. We’d like to know why they should win the Gen Con Indy bade coupon. We recommend no more than 500 words per entry, but that is just a guideline. Depending upon the number of entries we receive, we may post the top five entries in a follow-up post. If we do that, we will not post your email address publicly nor will we include your last name.

Deadline: The deadline for this contest is midnight, Wednesday, June 24th.