The Hook has announced its annual short story contest. John Grisham will be judge and jury.
Prizes and such
Surely the idea that one of the world’s top-selling authors wants to read your work should be incentive enough to enter, but there’s also the $1,000 in cash prizes.
The grand-prize winner receives $700, and there’s $200 for second place and $100 for third.
Next comes the fame. The grand prize-winning story will be published in the Hook in late March when lots of literary types are in town for the Virginia Festival of the Book.
In addition, all three winners will be officially saluted at the opening event of this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book (vabook.org) on Wednesday, March 21. This year’s Festival hotshots (besides you, of course) include Lee Smith, Hal Crowther, Doug Marlette, and Earl Hamner.
See The Hook for rules and such.
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Actually, the idea that John Grisham, one of the world’s top-selling authors, wants to read my work is *not* incentive enough to enter, especially since he’s the only judge. The $1000 and local fame gives a bit of incentive, but only if I can get over my relectance to submit to a publication that’s already rejected my fiction, poetry, and photography.
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