The second annual Gaithersburg Book Festival will feature a short story contest for high school students who live in Maryland, Virginia, or D.C. The winner will recieve a $100 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble.
The basics on the contest include:
- Story must be no longer than 1,000 words and start with one of the following three lines:
- In my entire life, I've fibbed dozens of times - usually to be polite or to get out of attending some mind-numbing social event - but I've only told one really big lie…
- “Don't open the box," my father always told me...
- When I left my parents' house for good, I took five things with me…
- Deadline: 5 p.m. Jan. 31, 2011
- Stories must be submitted electronically as a Word document to writingcontest@gaithersburgbookfestival.org.
- Author must be a high school student (public, private or homeschooled, grades 9-12, in the 2010-2011 school year), and live in Maryland, Virginia, or Washington, D.C.
Read all the rules and regulations at http://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/writing-contest.htm.
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