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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Send your short stories! Send your poetry!

Fiction Judge: Duane Swierczynski!

Poetry Judge: TBD!

Deadline: 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 29! Leap years are weird!

Fiction: $5 entry fee per story. Stories should be 3,000 words or less and previously unpublished. No more than three fiction submissions per entrant.

Poetry: $5 entry fee per five poems. No more than 10 poetry submissions per entrant.

Prizes: Winners get all the money (minus the judges’ honorariums), and have their work printed in City Paper. Runners up, also chosen by the judges, get posted online. Hopefully there will be a reading, too.

Eligibility: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware residents are invited to participate. Employees and regular freelancers for City Paper are ineligible, obvs.

Submitting: All checks should be made payable to City Paper Writing Contest at the address below or via PayPal to paypal@citypaper.net. Stories should be e-mailed to gimmefiction@citypaper.net or mailed the old-fashioned way to:

City Paper Writing Contest
123 Chestnut St., Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106.

No phone calls please regarding specific entries. Manuscripts will not be returned. Vampire fiction allowed.

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