Are you ready for the Hook Short Story Contest? The deadline is 5PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. Check out this article in the Hook for more rules and details.
Is this man the patron saint of new authors?
FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLOYou’ve read stories by John Grisham, but now he wants to read your story. Even though the world-renowned author of The Firm and A Time to Kill has just released a short story collection of his own called Ford County, he has again accepted the challenge of wielding a gavel in the literary world by judging the Hook’s annual short story contest.
Prizes and such
The idea that one of the world’s top-selling authors wants to read your work should be incentive enough to enter, but wait, there’s also the $1,000 in cash prizes.The grand-prize winner receives $550, second place $250, and third place $150.
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.
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Thanks for this. I almost always forget about this contest until the day before the deadline, or the day after.
It’s a tricky one because the deadline just roars up right after the beginning of the new year. The word limit is pretty tough, too — 3500 words!