The Pub Fest USA  writing contest is short story contest where authors can win a cash prize and The Pub Fest USA Award. There will be an award for each city that Pub Fest is held. For instance if the festival is in Dallas then the award will be the Dallas Pub Fest  Award.  The contest is simple: authors can submit a short story online for fans to judge. The stories will be posted online anonymously while the judging is talking place. This will be done through a poll on the Pub Fest USA website. After the judging is done fans will be able to see who the authors of the stories are. The winner will be announced at Pub Fest.  Anybody can enter, but an author is only allowed to submit their story at one Pub Fest event. If an author would like to enter more than one Pub Fest writing contest in the different cities where Pub Fest is held then they have to submit a different story for each contest.

            Now there are certain requirements to the short story. First, it cannot be pornographic; these kinds of stories will not be accepted. Second, the story you submit cannot be plagiarized in anyway. If we find that your story is plagiarized then it will not be accepted. Third the story has to be exactly 2,000 words, no more and no less. The title does not count as part of the word count and “The End” will not count as well. The writing contest is more than just submitting a story.  It’s a challenge for any writer too be concise and to make a story have all the elements of being great within a certain word count. The Pub Fest Writing Contest is a writing challenge for authors to be the best they can be at their craft.

Dallas Pub Fest Writing Contest  Deadline is November 1,  2010