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01-02-2008, 07:38 PM
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#106 | | Senior Member
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| ^I understand that, I suppose. I guess it just bothers me when people are like "I'm only doing this for college", which is what the poster in question implied.
BTW, though, I've found a good dozen non-essay creative writing competitions (most of them aren't too well-known, and, hence, not as competitive) and plan to enter most of them. I can PM someone with a few if they're interested. | 
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01-02-2008, 07:45 PM
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| ^^^ Yes, please!  | |
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01-02-2008, 07:54 PM
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#108 | | Junior Member
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| Can you PM me, too? Thanks. | |
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01-02-2008, 07:54 PM
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#109 | | Senior Member
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| Which writing competitions? I'm looking for other ones that are not scams. Like most of them are :X | |
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01-02-2008, 09:00 PM
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#110 | | Senior Member
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| Me too? I've looked everywhere and all I've found is Scholastic and the Claremont Review! | |
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01-02-2008, 09:02 PM
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#111 | | Senior Member
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| We should write for the sake of writing, yes.
But why would one enter competitions for any other reason but recognition (from colleges, in most cases)? It's an entirely different animal.
Mflevity's very right about math/science versus humanities competitions. | |
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01-02-2008, 09:56 PM
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#112 | | Junior Member
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| this is my first year...
I'm submitting one short-short story; quite proud of it actually. How competitive is it; how many people win the silver and gold keys stuff? | |
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01-03-2008, 10:46 AM
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#113 | | Member
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| I submitted a personal essay for Region-at-Large. How competitive/difficult is it to just get the lowest honor? | |
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01-03-2008, 11:05 AM
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#114 | | Senior Member
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| I just finished putting the last touches on my two writings, a journalism piece and a personal essay. I do have one question, we are only supposed to send one copy of each manuscript, correct? | |
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01-03-2008, 11:59 AM
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#115 | | Member
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| I'm sending 3 things.
My first time sending things in; I'm slightly confident.
The process is kind of confusing though--so many specifics especially if you're sending in more than one piece. And my teacher is kind of spacey so she wouldn't be able to help. Hmm. | |
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01-03-2008, 05:58 PM
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#116 | | Senior Member
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| Only one copy of the work, but 2 copies of each submission sheet.
God, last year you had to also include a CD of your work, which was so annoying... | |
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01-03-2008, 08:35 PM
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#117 | | Junior Member
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| I requested and received a deadline extension because it would be just too hectic for me to get signatures from my teacher and organize all the neccessary material in time [my first time entering Scholastic] @_@.
Are there any other poets here? It seems like many are submitting short stories and such | |
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01-03-2008, 08:41 PM
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#118 | | Senior Member
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| This is bull. The contest sorted me into RAL when I entered my zip code, but I just searched and found that I actually have a region for my state, MN, and the deadline is two days from now--it has to be *in* by then, not just submitted. What should I do? Help, PLEASE. | |
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01-03-2008, 08:42 PM
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#119 | | Senior Member
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| ^Poet in the house! I'm primarily a poet, though I occasionally do more prose-y-poetry (vignettes and the like), and rarely personal essays. | |
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01-03-2008, 08:44 PM
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#120 | | Senior Member
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| southeasttitan:
I suggest you email them about that. They can probably fix that technical error. You focus on getting together your submissions and whatnot.
Plus, is it in by that date or postmarked? | |
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