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How to Choose the Writing Contest You WILL WIN

How to Choose the Writing Contest for You You can read many informative articles on this subject and those articles will tell you how to choose viable writing contests. Read that here: http://www.writing-world.com/basics/win.shtml I'm going to share experience. Step 1: Search google for "writing contests year genre location" For example: writing contests 2012 poetry canada. Add "online submission" if you want - see how that changes your results. The more you match your writing to the contest, the better chance you have of winning. For example: Live in Winniville, Winnipeg? Try a local contest instead of competing against the highly populated US of A. Step 2: Scroll down and eyeball the results. If you see a list of contests , open that in a new tab within the browser window . For individual contests that match your search, open them in new tabs as well. Step 3: Check the list of contests. Open all that seem to match your style (what you have written...

Why You should enter Writing Contests

Winning a writing contest: 1. Tells publishers and agents that : you are professional you can write you can compete you can follow submission guidelines people want to read your writing 2. Proves to you that you're good enough--that you are a writer. 3. Gets you free publicity 4. Pays you a contest divident. (That's cold hard cash people)! So, start looking for contests to enter... see upcoming blogs for more details.