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Take the Writing Contest Leap!

Make the last half of 2021 the year to take the writing leap by entering writing contests. Writing contests can boost your self-esteem, and work toward crushing imposter syndrome. You receive rewards whether you win, or not. Let’s explore.

Contests Are Fun

Contests can be fun. It’s true. Some contests offer feedback, some don’t, but either way it puts a jolt of excitement in your writing world. Contest organizers want you to submit. It exciting for them to look at other people’s writing and help push your work forward. Organizers offer contests because they want to see writers gain confidence and help you to succeed in your writing endeavors. They lay out the welcome mat to come in. Furthermore, contests are not as intimidating as submitting to magazines and journals.

Teach You to Submit

That’s right! As a writer, if you want to be published you must submit. Submitting to contests allow you to stretch your submission muscles in order to prepare you to send your work in to other more lofty publications. It will also prepare you for the query submission for representation, or publication. Contests aren’t nearly as scary as querying a lit agent. So, if you enter contests frequently you’re learning a great skill in the process. It also gets you used to the dreaded “no” email. You won’t win every contests, but you may rank, or even make the top ten. All of this helps you acclimated to the submission process.

Give Courage

I’ve known many writers that lack the courage to submit, including me! It’s seems too risky to submit. It takes courage to receive criticism, judgment, or a rejection of your hard work. However, it’s necessary. All writers will experience rejection is some form, or another. In order to gain self-esteem around your writing, submitting is crucial. We all tend to struggle with putting ourselves out there. If you do it over, and over, each time you are braver, stronger, and ready to dive in again. You begin to have faith and hope in your own writing. You BELIEVE in YOU!

Resources

There are numerous recourses out there for you to find legitimate contests. Some contests are free, and others do offer a small fee upon entry for reading fees and prizes. The money does need to come from somewhere. You may not win the first one you enter, but chances are, the more you submit the likely you are to take home a prizes, and/or publication. Here is a list of a few resources to help you find contests that fit your genre.

At Indie It Press we will inform you of other contests, and submission in our Indie Artist Hub. It is free to be a member of our Artist Hub. Join us today!

Napkin Microfiction Contest with Indie It Press

We are currently offering a Napkin Microfiction contest that closes on April 30th. The fee is $15.00 for a reading fee and prizes, but with it you will also receive a micro-course in our DASHBOARD on how Margaret Atwood, HP. Lovecraft, Paulo Coelho, and David Foster Wallace all wrote well crafted micro-stories. We will look at their microfiction during this course and hopefully you can replicate their prose success in your Napkin Microfiction Writing Contest submission.

  • 1st place $300.00
  • 2nd place $200.00
  • 3rd place $100.00
  • 2 runners up $50 each
  • 5 honorable mentions $20 each
    • All Winners – microfiction piece published on Indie It Press
    • Top 5 winners – interviewed for a special feature on Indie It Press

Leisa Greene

Leisa Greene started her writing life as a nontraditional student earning a degree in creative writing from University of Montana. She is currently querying her completed memoir, Early Out. Leisa’s other writing consists of: Weightless, published on WOW! Women on Writing, and a runner up in WOW! Q4 2019 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest; Making the Men featured in We Leave The Flowers Where They Are, an anthology of 41 brave Montana women’s true stories; Windshield featured in Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing; the short online essays Brother Townsend and A Jamboree Family; and The Beckett Syndrome a one act play. Leisa was born in Butte and lives in Missoula, Montana with her husband where you can find them on backroad jeep rides, or as co-hosts recording a podcast.

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