Dear Competition Update Subscribers,

The year’s dashing toward its dramatic close, and with it goes your chance to enter several of our current competitions. So before you gobble down your turkey and start craving the eggnog, you’d best get your contest submissions in order!

There’s still time to enter two of your favorite writing competitions—the 7th Annual Short Short Story Competition and the WD Poetry Awards. The clock’s ticking, but I trust you’ll get your entries to us quickly!

You won’t want to pass up these exciting opportunities to win cash for your work. Plus, the winning entries will be featured in upcoming issues of Writer’s Digest magazine.

Don’t wait another day—send us your entries before it’s too late!

Elissa MacDonald

CompetitionNLE@fwpubs.com

P.S. Looking for some unique holiday reading? Be sure to check out the 75th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Collection—inside, you’ll find the top-winning entries from last year’s Annual contest!

WE INVITE YOU TO SHOW US YOUR SHORTS!

Enter the 7th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win up to $3,000 (that’s $2—or more—per word)!

Visit our Web site and learn more today!

We’re looking for fiction that’s bold, brilliant ... but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or less. But don’t be too long about it—the entry deadline is December 1, 2006.

Take a look at what you could win:

* First Place: $3,000
* Second Place: $1,500
* Third Place: $500
* Fourth through Tenth Place: $100
* Eleventh through Twenty-Fifth Place: $50 gift certificate for Writer’s Digest Books

Plus, the names and story titles of the First through Tenth Place winners will be printed in the June 2007 issue of Writer’s Digest, and winners will receive copies of the 2007 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.

The First-Place winner also has the option of a FREE “Best Seller Publishing Package” from Trafford Publishing, a leading provider of book-publishing services.

Don’t delay—send us your shorts today! Visit our Web site for guidelines and to enter online!

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*The 7th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection*

The 1st- through 25th-place winning manuscripts will be printed in a special collection, published by Trafford Publishing. Visit our Web site to reserve your copy today!

CHECK OUT THE WD POETRY AWARDS!

We’re pleased to announce the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for poets! Regardless of style—rhyming, free verse, haiku and more—if your poems are 32 lines or fewer, we want them all. Submit your entries by the December 20, 2006 deadline ... and your words could be worth cold hard cash!

Visit the Writer’s Digest Web site for guidelines and to enter online!

SETTLE DOWN WITH A GOOD BOOK THIS WINTER

Ever wonder which manuscripts win our competitions? This is your chance to read the very best entries for yourself! Check out the Grand Prize-winning manuscript, the 1st Place-winning pieces in each category and the names of the 1,001 winners in the 75th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Collection, published by Outskirts Press.

Click here to purchase your copy today!