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GCN is the monthly newsletter for writers, poets,  artists & photographers
who enjoy the thrill of competitions.

You are receiving this free newsletter either because you subscribed to GCN or
one of our other publications.  If you are not a subscriber, then you are receiving
it as a thank you gift for submitting a story, poem or article to one of our publications.
We hope you find it useful, but if you would prefer not to receive any further issues
simply e-mail us with 'don't send' in your subject. Please feel free to pass it on to a friend.
And be sure to let us know about your competitions. Thanks.
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Contents
1- Editorial
2- Hurry! Soon To End Competitions
3- How to Turn Hurtful Words Into Cash
4- Screenwriting Competitions
5- Ongoing Competitions
6 - Writing For The World Market

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Editorial

Why should you enter competitions?

I know, we asked the same question last issue and came to
the conclusion that even being a runner up can gain you massive
publicity.  That's aside from any financial benefits you might get.

Another question worth asking is what is the motivation of the organisers
to run the competition?  To make money ?  To gain Publicity ?  To
increase their subscriber base?

You can forget the first one.  With a dozen competition under our belts
we have never even broke even on the entry fees for our competitions
and I don't know of any other publisher who has either?

Certainly to increase publicity and the subscriber base are important
factors for all organisers, but there is another factor which we consider
important - to help writers achieve everything THEY hope for in
their writing careers, be that fame and fortune or recognition of the
quality of their writing by their peers and the general reading public.

In all our competitions we aim to achieve this and we are happy to
announce that Sam Smith from Bradford on Tone, England who
was one of the winners of the first New Millennium Novels
Competition has been nominated for the Booker Prize - one
of the top 5 prizes for writing in the world with a substantial cash
prize and recognition of his undoubted quality.

We hope to follow this success with many more and look forward
to the day when many of you gain the recognition you deserve
through our competitions.

Good luck to you all.

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Hurry - Imminent Deadlines

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$24,000 Voyage Short Story & Poetry Competition
  Details and entry form voyagemag@zyworld.com?subjecy=Vcompdetails
or write to Editor, Regent Publications, 14 Honor Avenue, Goldthorn Park,
Wolverhampton. WV4 5HH. UK Tel/Fax:01902 652999
http://welcome.to/Regentbooks
Comments from Last years winners.#
"What a thrill to see my name listed in the Anthology.  I've been published in
several anthologies before but this is without a doubt the best.  Thank you" -
Selina Feenix. Middlesborough, England
"Sincere thanks for your efforts.  The books all look fabulous.  I belong to
four writers groups here in germany and I will be recommending this
competition to all the members." - Kevin Barber, Munich, Germany
"Having seen the winners books I am even more disappointed not to have
been among the winners and even more determined to succeed this year."
- Debbie Warwick, Wellington New Zealand.

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Plot Line Foyer Contest
Short Story
Deadline:  September 1, 2000 [postmark]
Entry fee: $10 per story
Word count: 1500-3500 words. Stories can be on any subject,
except that which has sexual content, occult, graphic violence,
or ethnic hatred. If your submission is by snail mail, it must be
typewritten with your name, address, phone number, and word
count on the top right hand corner of the first page of your
manuscript.
If your submission is by email, embed it in the body of the email
message. ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE OPENED.
Your submission will be read only after your fee has been
received.  Include with your entry a self-addressed, stamped
envelope OR an email address for notification purposes only.
Manuscripts will not be returned. Entrants will be notified of
the results after October 1, 2000. The winner will receive
his/her prizes on the publication of the December 2000 issue
of Kids' Highway.
Winner will receive:
1. $100
2. Publication at the Plotline Foyer website.
3. By special arrangement with the editors of Kids' Highway,
the first place winner will also be published in their December
2000 issue.
4. A complimentary issue of Kids' Highway in which your work
appears.
Email entries should be addressed to:PlotLineFoyer@att.net
Snail mail entries should be addressed to:G.S. & S. 3601
Owens Bryan TX 77808-0969
For more information, visit Plot Line Foyer online at:
http://home.att.net/~plotlinefoyer

Poetry
Deadline:  September 1, 2000 [postmark]
Entry fee: $8 for up to 5 poems.
Word count: 24 lines maximum Poems can be on any subject,
except that which has sexual content, occult, graphic violence,
or ethnic hatred. One poem per page and name, address, email,
and phone number must be on every page. If your submission is
by email, embed it in the body of the email message.
ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE OPENED. Your submission
will be read only after your fee has been received. Include with
your entry a self-addressed, stamped envelope OR an email address
for notification purposes only. Poems will not be returned. All snail
mail entries should be typewritten with 1" margins all around. Entrants
will be notified of the results after October  1, 2000. The winner will
receive his/her prizes on the publication of the December 2000 issue
of Kids' Highway.
Email entries should be addressed to:PlotLineFoyer@att.net
Snail mail entries should be addressed to:
G.S. & S.3601 Owens, Bryan, TX 77808-0969.
For more information, visit Plot Line Foyer online at:
http://home.att.net/~plotlinefoyer
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Arizona Reporter's"Cruising on Route 66" Story Contest
Deadline: September 2, 2000 at 4:00 PM Arizona time
http://www.azreporter.com/route66contest.html

Arizona Reporter is seeking stories about trips taken on America's
Mother Road. Write about a vacation or event that happened to you
or a family member during a stop along Route 66. Share with us your
stories about places, characters and events you've met or been involved
with that have a connection to Route 66.

Email your stories in Microsoft Word format or plain text (.txt) to
route66-contest@azreporter.com or send them via a floppy disk
to "Cruising on Route 66" Contest / P.O. Box 1442 / Winslow,
AZ 86047.

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Esquire Writing Competition
Deadline 11:59 p.m. ET on September 10, 2000.
Prize: $4,000 and publication in Esquire
 Competition is open to writers who have never published a novel or a
collection of stories
No longer than 6,000 words.  11:59 p.m. ET on September 10, 2000.
Submit at website or If you'd prefer regular mail, mail your entry to the
Esquire Fiction Competition, 250 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Mailed entries must be received by September 15, 2000.
Include name, address, and telephone number on the first page;
all succeeding pages must be numbered and must include your name.
One entry per person.
 A winner will be announced by December 1, 2000.
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Write your own Suspense Novel Book Review
In honour of Monette Michaels' mystery thriller DEATH BENEFITS,
WordWeaving and Webletter are sponsoring a summer contest to
wake you from your lazy doldrums and get you back into your writing.

Read the following excerpt from Cindy Penn's review of DEATH BENEFITS
from the May 25 issue of WordWeaving:
 http://www.wordweaving.com/reviewmay25_00.html

Give us a tight and solid book review of your favorite suspense
mystery novel.  Limit the length to 500 words and submit as text in
the body of an email to HopeClark1@aol.com no later than August 20.
No entry fee.

The winner will receive:
--a copy of Monette Michaels'  DEATH BENEFITS
--$20 first place prize
--publication online in WordWeaving ezine

Second place will receive publication and $10.
Mailto:       HopeClark1@aol.com

URL:             http://www.wordweaving.com

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ANNOUNCING THE WIN WRITING CONTEST FOR
WOMEN AGED 18 AND UNDER.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: September 15
WIN is sending out this special announcement to invite you to recommend our
contest to any young women you know 18 and under, who enjoys writing. We are
very excited at the opportunity to encourage today's young woman to express
her voice in WIN, and to highlight the issues and interests facing young
women worldwide today. Following are the contest details:

CONTESTANTS SHOULD SEND US AN ESSAY ON ONE OF
THE FOLLOWING TOPICS FOR A CHANCE TO BE PUBLISHED
IN WIN AND RECEIVE A CASH REWARD OF $250 (FIRST
PRIZE) OR $175 (SECOND PRIZE). CHOOSE ONE OF THE
FOLLOWING:
1)The most important issue affecting women in my country is.
2)To grow up as a young woman in my country is...
3)The woman in my country I most admire is...
Essays should be between 1,000-1,800 words.
Mail to Judith Colp Rubin   editor@winmagazine.org
All contestants will receive an honourable mention on our website.

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West Coast literary Journal.
August 30, 2000 Literary Contest
$100 contests for best poem, best short fiction, best short
creative nonfiction.  SASE to Jay Rubin, The Peralta Press,
College of Alameda, 555 Atlantic Avenie, Alameda CA  94501
ZenManMe@aol.com
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National Literature Fiction Award
DeadLine  September 1, 2000 - Prizes $300, $150 +
publication.  Fee.  3500 words max. Theme celebrates our multi-
cultural heritage or history.  SASE to Y2K Council on National
Literature Fiction Award, FMI Potpourri, Box 8278, Prairie
Village, KS  66208
http://www.potpourri.org

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   "Adbusters wants to reinvent the outdated paradigms
of our consumer culture and build a brave new understanding
of living. We relish all truly political materials, whether they be
humorous spoofs about commercial culture, environmental
forays into the forests, sci-fi carpet rides into cyberspace or
scholarly probes into the decline of civilization and the death
of nature. More than anything, we seek compelling ideas that
further the critical perspective and offer -- at the same time -
activist solutions. Our language is culture-jamming: the activism
of the '90s."
http://www.adbusters.org/information/guidelines.html

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NORFOLK POETS AND WRITERS
- OPEN POETRY COMPETITION (30th April, 31st August,
31st December each year)
Monthly eZine
mailto:norfolk-poets-subscribe@egroups.com
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 KIDS' HIGHWAY.
SUMMER FICTION CONTEST for Young Writers
* Deadline August 15, 2000.
http://home.att.net/~kidshighway/contest.html
 Write a story under 900 words based on your favorite song.
  Submit by email or snail mail.  No entry fee.
 Include name, address, email, age (if you are a student), the song you
chose, AND the word count.
Prizes:
* A year's subscription to KIDS' HIGHWAY.
* Publication at our web site and in KIDS' HIGHWAY.
mailto:kidshighway@att.net
Snail Mail: Summer Fiction Contest, KIDS' HIGHWAY, P.O. Box 6275
Bryan, TX 77805-6275
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New ezine on the lookout for new talent!
The 'Write Advice' monthly ezine is an exciting source of
writing-related articles, tips, markets, and freebies for anyone
who enjoys writing. Members may submit fiction (must be
suitable for family reading) and writing-related articles up to
3000 words in length. Payment is in the form of a 10 line
biography and links. We hope to become a paying market
soon, so the more subscribers the better.
Details: write-advice@aweber.com

To subscribe:marie@writeadvice.ablegratis.com
(please place ‘Ezine nws’ in the subject line).

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Start the New Millennium in style

Writing For the World Market

With nearly a thousand detailed  guidelines for markets world
wide that are looking for your stories, poems, features, photos
and artwork. Some paying up to £1000 ($1700)
Features on how to make more sales but selling the same piece
again and again.
Hints and tips direct from editors who are desperate for your
contributions, Plus in depth articles on how to sell your writing
to women's markets in Europe, America, Asia and Australia,
and how to sell travel features world wide

Read The Introduction and Chapter 1 at
http://www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=68178
And the Chapter on Travel feature markets
http://www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=73845

To order your copy   http://welcome.to/Regentbooks
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Newswire Global Markets Newsletter is the new print magazine
for writers, artists, photographers and musicians who want to
increase their sales by selling to magazines, newspapers and other
publishers around the world.  Every issue contains over 50 new
markets, in-depth market segment reports, features on selling your
work abroad and hints & tips from others selling their work around
the world.
More details at http:welcome.to/Regentbooks
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                       Feature:    Print Vs Online

As little as two years ago I remember reading somewhere, in fact,
everywhere that online publications barely paid and were not really
the place for writers of any merit to place their work.

Today the situation has changed.  In common with everything
Internet related the rewards for writers are often greater than
those offered by traditional print magazines.

It's all a matter of advertising and sponsorship revenue.  As more
companies come online the need for advertising space grows, the
more income that online publications have to pass onto contributors.

There is also a growing trend for newsletters and zines like this one
to charge a subscription price.  Take Global Writers Ink
http://www.inkspot.com/global/
 which provides similar information (although far less of it) to our
own Writers Open Workshop,  but the charge $12.95 a year for
12 issues compared to WOW's 24 issues.

A new Ezine called write is due to launch at the start of next month
providing general monthly how to write type features, market news
stories and poems.  The first four issues are free then there will be a
subscription due.

For the writer this is both good and bad.  The information you have
been getting for free will increasingly cost a subscription.  But there
will be more paying gigs.  The boundry between print and electronic
publications will become increasingly blurred as they cease to be
different and become simply alternatively different methods of
delivering the same product.

In the long run this is bound to be good news for both the writer
and the publisher.  Many good magazines have failed simply
because printing costs make it financially impossible to continue
running a magazine which does not turn in a profit within the first
few issues.  Dead publications at best mean fewer markets for
your work and at worst mean not getting paid for work you have
already had printed.

Being able to deliver a larger proportion of your subscriptions
electronically means lower printing costs, no delivery costs
and less waste - thus magazine survival rates improve providing
more paying markets for your work and increasing payment rates.

That's the publishers view, but what do you think?
Would you pay for writers ezines?

voyagemag@zyworld.com?subject=PayingYES

voyagemag@zyworld.com?subject=PayingNO
 
 

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Ongoing Competitions
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L. Ron Hubbard's WRITER OF THE FUTURE CONTEST -
Deadline is Sept 30
-- An international search for new and amateur writers of new
short stories or novelettes of science fiction or fantasy. No entry
fee is required. Entrants retain all publication rights. All awards
are adjudicated by professional writers only. Prizes every three
months: $1,000, $750, $500. Annual grand prize: $4,000.
Send entries to L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of The Future Contest,
P.O. Box 1630, Los Angeles, Calif. 90078.
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October

Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz's Playwriting Contests
for West Coast Writers

Sixth Annual Ten-Minute Play Contest
Deadline: July 1, 2000

Second Annual Full-Length Play Contest
Deadline: October 1, 2000

The Moondance International Film Festival is by and for women.
Our objective is to promote and encourage women screenwriters,
playwrights, short-story writers and women who make independent
films, and the best work by women, in any genre of feature films,
animation, documentaries, short films, stage plays & short stories.
Moondance provides a forum in which those women can have the
opportunity for their work to be viewed and accepted by the powers
that be, within the international film community.

Moondance encourages and promotes non-violence as a solution to
conflicts in the arts and film.We also promote themes encouraging
anti-discrimination, anti-bias or anti-bigotry.

Categories:
Screenplay
Feature Film
Documentary
Animation
Short Film
Stageplay
Short Story

Full details: http://moondancefilmfestival.com
E-mail: moondanceff@aol.com
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Frith Press 2000 Poetry Chapbook Competition
Deadline: October 31, 2000 [postmark]
Reading fee: $8.00

Submit:
16 - 24 pages of original poetry, any subject; no poems
pending publication elsewhere
Cover sheet with name, address, and phone #
Acknowledgment of all previously published poems
US$8.00 reading fee payable to Laverne Frith
SASE for winner list

No manuscripts will be returned. Winner receives $100 and
50 chapbooks.

Mail entries to:Frith Press,P.O. Box 161236, Sacramento,
CA 95816-1236 USA

For more information: http://www.hometown.aol.com/ekphrasis1
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                Last Minute News/ Short Tips/ Other Prizes

Contests
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you can win Broadway show tickets, CD's, books and more...

FrodoCpu's  FIFTY copies of his cd to 50 winners (1 copy each)
http://TheCelebrityCafe.com/contests/frodo.html

Lisa Richard
Lisa's music has been called, "Insightful, challenging and daring
vocal performances..." Here's a chance to win one of 5 cds for
yourself!
http://TheCelebrityCafe.com/contests/lisa-richard.html

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Do you know of a competition or would you like to promote your
own competition.Do you have tips or advice that would help others
do better in competitions. Or would you just like to express your views.
Feel free to e-mail us here
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Advertise your book launch, services or event here
Advetrising Rates available on request  http://welcome.to/Regentbooks
 
 
 

End of Issue 6

John Dunne
Editor
Regent publications
14 Honor Avenue, Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton. WV4 5HH. UK
Tel/Fax:01902 652999
Email: john@voyage99.freeserve.co.uk

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