A Totally Sweet Contest

Calling all writers who love treats as much as the written word. Here’s your chance to win $200. The new Mezzo Magazine is running a contest for its December/January issue. The sponsor is a Canadian cake factory known for its creative cakes. They are looking for creative stories centered around cake. Finally your sweet-tooth and writing drive can join forces!  Deadline is November 30th. Issue goes live December 25th. There’s no entry fee or site affiliation. Just write a delectable treat and send.

You may also submit shorts, flashes and poems, if free from excessive gore, violence, profanity, hate or discrimination, at any time for consideration for the autumn, spring and winter issues. They’ll pay a flat $50 for the chosen feature story.  Submission guidelines:

• We will automatically reject submissions without the word SUBMISSIONS and the title in the subject line.
• All submissions must be 3,500 words or less. (Approximately fourteen (14) pages) There is no minimum word count, but our upper limit is set on a stainless steel plaque in the chief editor’s office as a permanent reminder to slush any submissions over this limit.
• All submissions should be sent either in the body of your email or as a .doc or .rtf document.
• Do NOT send .docx documents, or PDF documents. If you are pasting your submission into the body of your email, please use plain text without any special formatting.
• If you wish, you can also send a photograph of the author (you) or original art work pertaining to your story. Paste your submission into the body of your e-mail or as an attachment. Attach the picture or art work in JPEG format separately.
• Include your legal name, your pen name as you want it published and a short third person bio/publishing history. We also need your E-mail address and require that you tell us if your submission is a reprint. We do consider reprints for publication, as long as the author discloses where the story was previously published and assures us that they retain all rights to the story. If you do not tell us your submission is a reprint and we see it published elsewhere, your story will be rejected.
• We notify each author within ten days of their submission. If you do not receive an email within a few weeks, assume we have not received your submission and resend it. Please send only one submission per email. Every submission must be sent in a separate email with all of the above requested information in each email.

For further guideline details, click here. To read this month’s stories, click here. Good luck!

~ Signing off and sending out cyber hugs.

~ by Courtney Vail on October 13, 2009.