Have you started your story for the 2016 short story contest? In Places Between is a great opportunity for you to get your work in front of a panel of judges in a variety of different genres. Four Calgary Writers’ groups, Calgary’s Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, Calgary Crime Writers, the Alberta Romance Writers’ Association and the Alexandra Writers’ Society, work together to bring the contest alive. You can now submit your original written works of fiction!

IFWA will hold the contest in conjunction with the new When Words Collide literary convention to promote the writing and enjoyment of popular fiction in all its forms. You must be registered for the convention to participate.

To find out more about submission guidelines and story format visit the contest page.

Need som tips for writing and submitting to a short story contest. Check out this article from the Daily Writing Tips written by Diana Thurbon ; 20 Tips For Winning Writing Contests.

Excerpt:

“Submitting stories to writing contests can be quite lucrative if you know the tricks of the trade. At the same time it is easy to make an avoidable mistake and miss out.

Many books published now use single quotation marks for speech. I followed this format for an entry in an American contest. After the contest I received an email from the main judge which said: You may have done well in this contest but for the fact that I could not get past the abominable use of apostrophes instead of quotation marks.”