Samuel Richardson Prize deadline is July 31 + open thread
The rules for the contest are here, but the summary is that entries to the Samuel Richardson Prize should be longer than 40,000 words, and they should’ve been self-published in the last five years and available to be purchased or read online. There are ten judges, including myself—we will each pick one finalist, and then we will review and rate all the finalists. There is no entry fee and no cash prize—the contest is just about getting more readers and more attention for otherwise-overlooked books.
This post is really just a short note to remind folks about the prize, but I thought it could also be an open thread. If you’ve got anything you want to suggest, discuss, recommend, share, then feel free to leave a comment below.
An aside, but will this competition be occurring annually or just this once?
Greetings, Woman of Letters, and all. I would like to express how heartened I am to find that almost every single 'SUBMISSION GUIDELINES' I read makes a notation that AI is not allowed under any circumstance, and will be deleted and no more submissions from such an author will ever be allowed again to participate on their site, ezine. In the past year I have looked at a lot of different publications to submit my short stories to, many of which do not fit my work, or some have very 'trendy political agendas' that I do not wish to pursue, but they all seem to have one thing in common, and that is the concept that we, as authors are expressing our human gifts of creativity. I hope that all writers of whatever style or genre take note of this, and consider mentioning their thanks to the publications they submit their work to.