Contests: SPS Poetry Cards, Ghost Stories

By Gillespie and Queen

SPS Studios Poetry Card Contest

Open to any writer, this contest is seeking entries appropriate to be published on greeting cards (Blue Mountain Arts). Poems can be rhyming or not, although they find that "non-rhyming poetry reads better." Furthermore, they suggest that people "write about real emotions and feelings and that you have some special person or occasion in mind as you write." Poems are judged by originality and uniqueness.

Deadline is December 31. You may enter as often as you wish, and there is no entry fee. Prizes are:

First Prize: $300
Second Prize: $150
Third Prize: $50

Go to www.sps.com for more information and to enter via an online entry form.

--KG

In-house contests running currently

Ghost stories, running now through Oct 27, 2004. Ten thousand words or less, fiction or non-fiction. Ghosts are encouraged, but any horror topics will work. More info.

Darklight anti-fanfic, running now through Jan 31, 2005. Retell the terrible sci-fi channel movie to share among fellow (anti)fans or come up with an original idea based on the demoness Lilith for possible publication in the Press. More info.

--AQ