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| 2010 Weta Nichols Writing Contest Guidelines: Online entries only please. Submit the first ten pages of your novel to wetawritingcontest@gmail.com. Send as a .doc with one inch margins all around, double spaced in 12 pitch Times New Roman font. Please send the first ten pages only. Stories are to be previously unpublished and can be any genre, romance, sci-fi, mystery, etc. Your name should only appear on entry form and the cover page which will have your contact information, your name and the name of your submission. The page number and the title of your story should appear on each page of the manuscript in the header. Entry fee is $10.00 per entry. Payment will be made by using the PayPal button below, you do not have to have a PayPal account to make your payment this way. If you have questions please email ora_vice_pres@yahoo.com. You may submit up to 5 entries. Each story will receive judges comments. If you do not want to get judges comments, please specify on your cover sheet. If not specified, it will be assumed you want comments. Judges comments are given solely as a guide to improving your writing, but comments from judges should be used at the discretion of the writer. If there is a twenty-five point or more difference between the scores, another arbitrator will judge the entry and the highest score will be used. To determine the winner, the top five scoring stories will be judged by a separate arbitrator. All judges will be published authors. Ozarks Romance Authors is not responsible for comments made by the judges. These are personal opinions only, and are not the expressed opinion of Ozarks Romance Authors. Names of the Judges will be unknown to entrants and shall remain so. After the contest, if you want to convey comments to them on their judging, give them thank you notes etc., give it to the president and include the Judges number or email it to wetawritingcontest@gmail.com. Put the Judge # in the subject box. All will be forwarded. Please read the entry form carefully and give us your signature. That's all there is to is to it! Now for the best part, the prizes. 1st prize: $100.00 2nd prize: $50.00 3rd prize: $25.00 4th and 5th place honorable mention Winner will be announces the the 2010 Romancing the Ozarks conference on July 10th, 2010. Good luck. Now get to it!
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