From the lovely Erin Erginbright...

I suggest all you fictioneers pay close attention:


Wordstock, Portland’s annual festival of writers, books, and storytelling, wants to see outstanding short stories from Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and across the US. So we’re announcing the Wordstock Short Fiction Competition.


Anyone can enter. Stories can be from any genre. They can be as short as 1,500 words and as long as 4,000. The judges — writers, academics, publishers, bookstore owners, literary critics — will choose ten finalists, which will be published in The Wordstock Ten, an anthology that will be available at the festival, held this year November 9-11 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.


The winning story will be published in the December 2007 issue of Portland Monthly. The winning writer will receive $1,000.


The deadline to enter is July 15, so get to work.


See the complete competition and submission guidelines at wordstockfestival.com/involved/fiction


All proceeds from Wordstock support Community of Writers, a program to improve writing in our schools.


Get going, y'all!