Enter Monday’s Summer Fiction Contest

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Monday’s Annual Summer Fiction Contest

How different did the city look 10 years ago? Fewer downtown condos and less people living on the streets, sure, but there were also more live music clubs and definitely not as many bicycles on the road. How will it look 10 years from now? That’s up to you.
For our summer fiction contest this year, we’re asking you to gaze into your personal crystal ball and imagine Victoria in 2019. Will we have grown into the progressive city of the future so many of us think we have the potential to be? Or have sea levels risen due to melting icecaps and has Fairfield become the city’s hottest new underwater neighbourhood? Good, bad or somewhere in between, we want to hear your vision of the future.

To qualify for the contest, each story must be between 800 and 1,200 words, include the phrases “blue bridge” and “earthquake” and be set in or around Victoria in the year 2019. Stories will be judged by prize-winning author Deborah Willis, whose new book Vanishing and Other Stories (Penguin) has been making headlines of late. The winning stories will appear in the July 16 issue of Monday Magazine.

First Prize: $200

Second Prize: $100

Third Prize: A stack of great books.

Courtesy of Monday Magazine

We reserve the right to award up to two honourable mentions, if warranted by the quality of entries.

Entry Guidelines:

• To qualify, entries must  be set in or around Victoria in the year 2019 and contain the phrases “blue bridge” and “earthquake.“ Please BOLD the first use of these phrases in your story, to allow us to verify this requirement has been met.

• Stories must be between 800 and 1,200 words long. Please include the WORD COUNT.

• All entries must be typed, double-spaced, on 8-1/2x11” paper.

• All entries MUST ALSO be sent in via e-mail as a .txt attachment to editorial@mondaymag.com with the words “Summer Fiction Contest” in the subject line. To clarify, we need both a hard copy AND an electronic version of your story.

• Put the full title of your story at the top of each page, but do NOT put your name anywhere on the story.

• Include the title of your story—along with your name, address, daytime phone number and e-mail address—on a separate cover page.

• You may enter more than one story, but we will accept no more than three stories from one person.

• Entry fee: $5 per story entered, cash or cheque payable to Black Press.

• DEADLINE: Entries must be received at the Monday office at 818 Broughton Street by 5 p.m. Thursday, June 18. No exceptions.

• No faxed submissions will be accepted, and no electronic versions will be accepted without a hard copy as well.

• Judge’s decisions are final.

• Winners will be announced in the July 16 issue of Monday Magazine. No advance notification or announcement will take place.