As part of its year-long 35th Anniversary celebration, The Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore ("The Shrine"), one of America's largest and oldest Black-owned bookstore chains, is sponsoring a nationwide Write is Might short story competition open to all new and unpublished writers. Along with cash prizes, the winning entry will be published on the website of the Black Issues Book Review, the only large circulation forum solely devoted to covering both fiction and nonfiction books written by Black authors.
The submission deadline for the Write is Might competition is January 31, 2006. The pieces must be no longer than 4,000 words of a previously unpublished, never before submitted short story. A $10.00 entry fee must accompany each manuscript. The Contest Committee, comprised of the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore Staff, will read each story. The ten best entries, as determined by the group, will be forwarded to the finalists judges who will pick the three winning submissions. Award winners will be notified by mail or email before May 1, 2006.
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