Shade Tree Creations is host to the Annual Poetry, Western Short Story, and NEW Short Story Contests sponsored by Art Affair.            

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Art Affair Announces The NEW Short Story Contest Call for Entries           

 

                  Good luck to all writers who enter!

 

2008 Contest Deadline is October 1, 2008.

  Art Affair 2008 (General) Short Story Contest Rules

Art Affair’s short fiction contest (maximum: 5,000 words) is open to any writer.  Enter your own original work only. Please do not include a SASE; entries will not be returned.

Entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2008 and should be unpublished and/or unaccepted for publication when entered into the contest. Manuscripts must be double-spaced and in 12-point font.

Please type your name, address, telephone number, and title of manuscript on a cover page which will be removed before judging.  On your manuscript, type page/word counts in the upper right-hand corner of the first page. 

You may enter as many short stories as you like but each entry requires an entry fee.

Prizes:  $50.00, $25.00, $15.00 (Prize money and certificates will be mailed to the winners and a list of winners will be published on the website in December 2008.)

Entry Fee:  $5.00 per manuscript (Make check payable to Art Affair) Deadline:  October 1, 2008             

Mail entries to: ART AFFAIR - CONTEST
P.O. BOX 54302
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73154

 

Art Affair 2007 Short Story Contest Winners:



First Place – M. Carolyn Steele, Tulsa, Oklahoma – “The Midwife”

Second Place – Maria Rachel Hooley, Lawton, Oklahoma – “Stuffing and Broken Thread”

Third Place – Emery L. Campbell, Lawrenceville, Georgia – “An Easter Tale”

(Honorable Mentions – in alphabetical order)

Honorable Mention – Vera Ogden Bakker, West Bountiful, Utah – “Lost Mine”

Honorable Mention – Pat King, Albia, Iowa – “Leaving Home”

Honorable Mention – Inez Phillips, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – “The Schedule”

Honorable Mention – Dawn Williams, Bethany, Oklahoma – “Running with Snakes”