Submit your Short Fiction Story to Esquire Mag - No fee

Winner gets $2500 and publication in Esquire Magazine
Bookfox has a superfly blog that we've fallen in love with, and he recently blogged about Esquire's new no-fee fiction contest, so we thought we'd pass it on [and why aren't you Tweeting, Bookfox? If you are, be sure to follow us].

Esquire's short story winner gets $2500 and publication in Esquire Magazine. What's the catch? You have to follow their rules, and of course, as purveyors of creative writing exercises and prompts, we're big fans of writing contests with interesting rules.

From Esquire.com:

"The first and most important rule — besides, of course, that the story has to be original — is that the story must be based on one of three titles that we have provided.

The titles are:

1. "Twenty-Ten"

2. "An Insurrection"

3. "Never, Ever Bring This Up Again"

A date, a thing, and a statement. No exceptions. Make of them what you will, do with them something great. But no taking an old story and slapping one of our new titles on it. We'll know, and we won't be happy.

Second rule: Your story cannot exceed 4,000 words. We are serious about that, too."

Submissions begin May 1st and the deadline is Midnight, August 1st, 2009.
Visit Esquire.com for more further details and to submit. Also check out Esquire's new online fiction 'zine.