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**FOR INFO ON THE 2013 WRITING CONTEST, CLICK HERE!**
Ignore all the stuff below. It's from last year.
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2012 Writing Contest info: Send your short stories! Send your poetry!
Fiction Judge: Duane Swierczynski!
Poetry Judge: Brian Teare!
Deadline EXTENDED to: 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 7! That's still really soon!
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 Stories should be 3,000 words or less and previously unpublished.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. Sentient turtle fiction allowed.
View galleryUPDATE: Thanks to those who submitted photos. I won't be eating lunch for a week ...
I could only choose one winner, though, and that goes to Rosemarie Fabian, who sent this vile picture of a hairy tongue. Congrats!
I'm also attaching a few more of the nastier submissions. I had to look at them, so you should, too.
Just a reminder: The deadline for COMICS ISSUE submissions has been extended until Monday. Why not take this weekend to whip up something? Amateurs welcome! Pros welcome!
The deadline was supposed to be yesterday, but since we have a little more time before we gotta get the submissions into the hands of celebrity judge Art Baxter, we decided to extend the deadline. Now you have until this Monday, Nov. 21, at midnight. If you were on the fence, this is your second chance. C'mon, Philly comics creators, show us what you've got.
First person to email pat@citypaper.net with GIMME KOOKS TICKETS as the subject gets a pair of tickets to the sold-out Kooks/Postelle show at the Troc Tuesday night.
The publicist also wants you to know that you can purchase the new Kooks album on iTunes. Here's a link for that.
WE HAVE A WINNER! Congrats to Darren! Sorry, everybody else!
You have, like, 13 days, people. More info here.
Why are you charging money this year?
I know it’s a sore subject. We wanted to reward the artists whose comics made it into the issue. We have zero budget for this thing. (The Comics Issue is a pet project, something I started a few years ago because I like comics. I’ve been told it doesn’t generate any money advertising-wise.) So we decided to go with the model that’s worked for our annual Fiction/Poetry Issue for 20-something years: Submission fees get turned into prize money.
Why don’t you hire a guest judge/editor?
It’s an idea we toyed with before but never pulled the trigger. It makes us nervous (so many comics people know each others’ work on sight). But yeah. We heard you loud and clear on the subject this year and invited Art Baxter pick the winners. He’s also doing the cover. Could not be more excited about that.
Can we use bad words/nudity/sacrilege in our comic?
Go nuts, man.
How do you feel about Garfield subversions?
Since we’re upping the ante this year by ask for submission money and turning it into cash prizes for the winners, we figured it was time to get legit. So. We’re crazy excited to announce that local comics hero Art Baxter has agreed to illustrate the Comics Issue cover — look for it 12/1 — and judge the entries. Baxter’s the Tyler grad/Roxborough resident who made a name for himself with comic books like Spud and Screw. His illustrations have been published all over the place.
All the submission info you need is here.
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