{"id":5826,"date":"2018-11-06T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:53:23","slug":"6000-short-story-contest-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/6000-short-story-contest-free\/","title":{"rendered":"$6,000 Short Story Contest (Free)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owl Canyon Press is now hosting a short story contest with $6,000 in prizes. The contest has a twist: They provide the first paragraph and the 25th paragraph, and the story must be fifty paragraphs long.<\/p>\n<p>They call it a hackathon. This follows the success of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/1000-short-story-contest-hackathon\/\">first hackathon earlier this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the contest page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span class=\"color_15\">Writers are invited to create and submit a short story consisting of 50 paragraphs. The contest provides the 1st and 25th paragraphs, and the short story writer crafts the rest. \u00a0\u00a0First prize is $3000, 2nd prize is $2000, and 3rd prize is $1000 with the winning short stories published in a short story anthology, as well as an invitation to give a public reading at Inkberry Books in Niwot, CO. The twenty-four (24) Finalists will also have their short stories included in this anthology.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that if you are a finalist, you won&#8217;t be paid, but you will still be published.<\/p>\n<p>Each paragraph needs to be at least 40 words, which means your story will be at least 2,000 words long. There is no word count limit.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to enter is December 1st, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, and to enter the contest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlcanyonpress.com\/hackathon\">visit this page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owl Canyon Press is now hosting a short story contest with $6,000 in prizes. The contest has a twist: They provide the first paragraph and the 25th paragraph, and the story must be fifty paragraphs long. They call it a hackathon. This follows the success of their first hackathon earlier this year. According to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}