Rapid-Fire Writing Contest
DesiLit Calls for Rapid Writers!
48-Hour Writing Challenge: August 11th - 13th, 2006
Think you can write a story, poem, or play in 48 hours? Here's your chance to show your stuff!
Contest Rules:
Contest Rules: Contestants for the DesiLit 48-Hour Writing Challenge are required to register and pay their entry fees by Friday, August 11th, at noon CST; they will have the theme and bonus words e-mailed to them. (They will also be posted on the DesiLit site: www.desilit.org.) Entries will be judged based on overall quality, use of theme, and creative but seamless use of bonus words. The 48-Hour Writing Challenge is open to all South Asian and diaspora writers.
All complete entries must be received by Sunday, August 13th at noon -- and no blaming the internet if it gets to us late! Get it in early if you're worried.
CONTEST THEME: meeting a stranger at the airport
BONUS WORDS AND PHRASES:
- bhangra
- broken window
- inductive reasoning
- khadi
- opium den
- palanquin
Three separate categories will be judged:
- Fiction (up to 5000 words)
- Poetry (up to 2 pages typed)
- Drama (up to 15 pages typed in standard script format)
Prizes:
The winner from each category will be published in DesiLit Magazine. The top local winner from each category gets to read in our next Rapid-Fire Reading! All winners also receive a complimentary one-year membership to DesiLit.
Fiction prizes:
- two hours editorial time with author Mary Anne Mohanraj
- a signed hardcover first edition of Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in
Motion
- a signed hardcover first edition of Vikram Seth's Two Lives
- a copy of Storywallah, edited by Shyam Selvadurai
- a $20 gift certificate to Women & Children First Bookstore (also
online)
- a $10 gift certificate to the Bookcellar, Chicago
Poetry prizes:
- a copy of Storywallah, edited by Shyam Selvadurai
- a copy of children's picture book, The Closet Ghosts, by Uma
Krishnaswami
- two issues of Kahani, a children's magazine of poetry, fiction, and art
- a year-long subscription to ByLine Magazine, a magazine for writers
- a $20 gift certificate to Women & Children First Bookstore (also
online)
- a $10 gift certificate to the Bookcellar, Chicago
Drama prizes:
- an eight-week writing class at The Second City Training Center in
Chicago (value $275, can be redeemed for online or in-person classes)
- one hour editorial time with Anita Chandwaney, Executive Director of
the Rasaka Theatre Company
- a copy of Storywallah, edited by Shyam Selvadurai
- a $20 gift certificate to Women & Children First Bookstore (also
online)
- a $10 gift certificate to the Bookcellar, Chicago
Entrance Fee:
$10/$5 DesiLit members. Participants are welcome to enter more than one category (add $5 fee per additional category).
