Cemetery Dance Writing Contest

[Mickmarseviltwin]

Great idea, Dan. Always good to find new avenues for short stories!

Really looking forward to submitting mine and reading some of the other entries.

cheers
Pete

[Dan Hocker]

Definition of "Amateur" clarification.

In this instance, when we say "Amateur" we mean both unpublished writers and / or author's we do not publish on a regular basis. I say regular basis to give a little room, as I would not want to deny someone who may have only been published in say the magazine once or twice. I would also go so far to say that if Cemetery Dance has published one of your books you would not fall into the "Amateur" category.

[peteOcha]

Great idea! Time do get those creative brain cells going! And good luck to all who will participate.

[njhorror]

No, there's really no real good way to do that either.

People could send them to you as an attachment and you could post them.
I've seen other websites run contests this way.

[Dan Hocker]

People could send them to you as an attachment and you could post them.
I've seen other websites run contests this way.

I could do that. I think we'll go with this one the way it is for now, if we run into problems we'll run the next one of these we do differently. I am however planning on locking people's story posts after they are posted so no one can reply to those threads.

[Patrick]

This is a very cool contest idea! I can't write fiction worth a damn, so I'll be sitting it out, but I look forward to reading the entries. Good luck to you all!

[C.W. LaSart]

Thank you so much for clearing that up!

[jmcraven]

I am looking forward to this as well. I am a little curious as to how this will work out, as far as the actual voting process goes, but I do appreciate the opportunity.

[Dan Hocker]

Here's how the voting process will go. Once the submission period is over and we give ample time for everyone to read the stories, I will post a new thread that is a "poll" thread, with each story as an option to pick. Each person will get to vote once, and we'll let it open for a week or so. Once the week is over our top 3 winners will be determined.

[Pooks]

Contest

What is the exact timeline for submissions?

[Dan Hocker]

What is the exact timeline for submissions?

We will be open for submission on June 1st and will remain open for 1 week (so June 1st through the 7th). We do recommend that you get your submission in as early in the submission window as possible.

[Reader/WriterJNT]

Great news, this contest idea rules! Can't wait until June, I think i have something that will be ready by that date.

[lilbirdy]

Is it free to enter?

[Nik Houser]

Whew, got the rough draft done, just gotta trim it down from 24,000 characters to (gulp) 10,000. I've got a "delete" button, but is there a "dismember large swaths of text" button?

Anyway, howdy folks. Nice to be here. Longtime CD fan, first time poster.

[Dan Hocker]

Is it free to enter?

It sure is!