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Enter the 40^th Annual SBWC Scholarship Contest – Best Opening

 

Dear Writers,

Enter the 40^th Annual SBWC Scholarship Contest! Send us your BEST OPENING, up to 40 words — a beginning most likely to compel a reader to turn the page.

• Email all entries to: sbwcBestOpening@gmail.com
• Please include contact information: name, phone number, email address, & mailing address
• All genres welcome
• This must be your original work, published or unpublished
• Winner receives a tuition scholarship to the 40^th Annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and a signed copy of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina
• No entry fee
• Contest Begins: Today!
• Deadline: Friday, June 1^st, Midnight (PST)
• Winner Announced: Saturday, June 2^nd

“I think your opening is enormously important. You’ve got to write a first line that will haunt you. It’s got to be magic.” – Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, and keynote speaker at SBWC 2012

 

Please share this opportunity with writers you know.

 

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