Writers Ink! Writer Of The Year Competition!!!!

Miss Paula, Last Years Award Winner SECOND ANNUAL WRITER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION W.O.T.Y. 2009 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: YOUR ENTRIES MUST HAVE A COPYWRITE DATE ( Copyright 2009- or what ever year you wrote it, or ©) • YOUR ENTRY MUST BE AN ORIGINAL PIECE WRITTEN BY YOU! • SINGLE ENTRIES ONLY. NO COLLABORATIONS. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER WRITER • ENTERIES MAY NOT BE MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED WORDS ALL ENTRIES MUST BE PREVIOULSY UNPUBLISHED PIECES. Main Entry: pub·lish Pronunciation: ..ˈpə-blish.. Function: verb Etymology: Middle English, modification of Anglo-French publier, from Latin publicare, from publicus public Date: 14th century transitive verb 1 a : to make generally known b : to make public announcement of 2 a : to disseminate to the public b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : print 2c c : to issue the work of (an author) intransitive verb 1 : to put out an edition 2 : to have one's work accepted for publication — pub·lish·able ..-bli-shə-bəl.. adjective • . All entries must be ORIGINAL. If you didn't write it, don't enter it. • ALL W.O.T.Y. CONTESTANTS MUST BE ON THE WRITERS INK FRIENDS LIST NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 21, 2009 • ALL ENTRIES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 31, and marked no later than 11:59 PM • ALL DEADLINES ARE FINAL and not negotiable. CONTESTENT SKILL LEVELS ARE AS FOLLOWS 1. Beginner: You write, but you've never ever published and the words 'Random House' is some obscure home down the road. 2. InBeTweenie: You've published a thing or two, or think you might be ready. You were once a "Writer Of The Week" with Writers Ink, and you could PROBABLY get paid for writing if you didn't love your nine to five numbers crunching job so much. 3. Professional/Expert: Do I really need to explain this one? Ok. Here it goes. If you have ever been published anywhere besides MySpace. If you write more than you see your family. If your dog Spot packed up and ran away because you walked your typewriter more than him, OR if you got paid, Get paid to write. • PLEASE NOTE: THE WOTY IS IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED ANY OTHER CONTEST IN ANY OTHER FORUM, ALTHOUGH YOU WILL POSSIBLY COME ACROSS THE LINK TO THE WOTY IN SUCH PLACES AS TAGGED.COM, FACEBOOK, BEBO, Hi-5, AND OTHER NON RELATED SITES. • Email- all enteries to: writersink@writeme.com subject line: WOTY SUBMISSION • What you will receive in return: • You will get an entry code via email that might look like this: • MySpace123 or boogabooga321 • The judges won't be able to look you up on MySpace because this code is not linked to your MySpace Profile in ANY WAY. • It is important that the judges are judging based strictly on the writing. Not on any of their personal biases • Some of you are professional writers, who do this for a living. Some of you have just started writing. We don't want someone to receive, or not receive the WOTY because they may or may not be a known author to any of our judges. • THE JUDGES were chosen specifically for this competition and have committed to be fair and unbiased. • Global judging of one contest... • LOVE TECHNOLOGY!!! • The top three entries will then...(sheesh) be read, re-read and picked over like lice on a monkey's head... and finally... the WOTY COMITTEE will tell me WHO is the WOTY AWARD WINNER. • Alrighty. Now that we have made a terribly simple thing just...terrible...sounding... • Here is the entry form. oh wait... Here is the DISCLAIMER first. • DISCLAIMER: The Writers Ink! W.O.T.Y. AWARD is something that we at Writers Ink! totally just made up about 2 years ago, while we were watching the Arias awards from Australia, and is in no way able to deliver cash prizes, stardom, fame, fortune or even a promise of a job.( The Writers Ink! W.O.T.Y. Award is in no way associated with the ARIAS Music awards, it's recipients, or anything or any one else associated with the arias... we just really like Aussie Music like, Missy Higgins, The Veronicas, err...ah oh yeah... back to us) • The Writers Ink! W.O.T.Y. Award cannot make your teeth whiter or your breath better. It won't help you grow hair, or get rid of acne. It won't even sing a jingle. No, not even if you put a gun to it. The Writers Ink! W.O.T.Y. Award won't make you more popular with the girls, or skinny enough to wear that itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini, so pull out the one piece sister. ALSO The W.O.T.Y. award will not get you anything cool from anyone cool. So don't take it to a bar with you and try and scam free drinks. Chances are you and your W.O.T.Y. will be goin' home alone again if you try it.AND NOW, WE BEGIN: FIRST ANNUAL W.O.T.Y. AWARD ENTRY FORM ENTRY FORM What is your MySpace Name.__(Please don't change your MySpace name. this is how we cross reference the MySpace Friend ID incase it is entered incorrectly)__________________________ What is your MySpace Friend ID._____________________ (this is the last set of numbers on the address bar on your PROFILE PAGE not your home page. Example: Writers Ink Friend ID is 391135728What Skill level is this entry? Place an 'X' in only one area Beginner___ InBeTweenie___ Professional/Expert____ What Category? Comedy ______ Drama ____ Horror ___ Science Fiction____ Religious/Spiritual ___ Poetry___ other_________ Copy and paste your entry submission below this line. (remember, real people will be reading this, so make it long enough to be interesting, short enough that they don't have to take a day off from work to get through it. Ya digg:) Once you have submitted your entry, I will send you a WOTY SUBMISSION ENTRY CODE... KEEP IT WHERE YOU CAN FIND IT. _____PASTE SUBMISSION BELOW THIS LINE___