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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

691.0. "Writing SF for fun...?" by GIDDAY::DAVIES (The next time you're in town..) Tue Sep 13 1988 05:23

    Aproximately 12 months ago "Computing Australia" ,a weekly tabloid,
    started a short story competion that yeilded the monthly winners
    500 big one and the year's winner 2500. It has just about come to
    an end and there has been some very inovative stories. The rules
    were that the plot had to have something to do with computers (hard
    to guess why) and of a length of no more than 2500 words.
    
    What I am after is some information on whether or not there has
    been any other competions like the one above out there in the big
    wide world. I tend to be cut off from a lot of good SF info down
    here on this big sunny island. For example I am not sure if we have
    had S. Donaldson's 'A Man Road Through' released yet . Most frustrating.
    as I picked up the first one in Canada last feb. and assumed I could
    get the next one easlily.     
    
    Any way is there any young and budding SF writers out there?
    
    
    bags of imagination but no time to type  
    
                            s. davies
                            down under

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
691.1	Ron Hubbard's series	VIDEO::TEBAY	Natural phenomena invented to order	`Tue Sep 13 1988 14:02`	4
	There is Ron Hubbard's New Writers series. Don't know of any with computers though.
691.2	the WoF	FENNEL::BALS	There goes Totoa	`Tue Sep 13 1988 16:12`	21
	It's actual name is "L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future" contest. Quarterly prizes are given ranging from $1000-500. There's also an annual award of $4000 given to the top selection among the quarterly winners. Winners, and some finalists, are also offered payment to have their stories appear in the annual WoF anthology published by Bridge Publications. Full information and rules can be obtained by sending an SSAE to: L. Ron Hubbard's WRITERS OF THE FUTURE PO Box 1630 Los Angeles, CA 90078 You should also be aware that Bridge Publications sponsers the contest. Bridge Publications, and its parent organization, Author Services, Inc. are both totally captive organizations of Scientology and the Church of Dianetics. If you don't know anything about either, there are some excellent books widely available -- both pro and con -- about Scientology and the Church of Dianetics. Fred
691.3	ta for the info	GIDDAY::DAVIES	The next time you're in town..	`Wed Sep 14 1988 00:13`	11
	re .1 .2 Thanks for the information I will be looking in to it a little deeper. s. davies
691.4	Writer's Digest	UCOUNT::BAILEY	Corporate Sleuth	`Wed Sep 14 1988 16:53`	5
	Writer's Digest magazine and their books (notably "Writer's Market 19XX") usually list competitions. Not sure if they are international in scope or only US. Sherry
691.5	long term memory?	GIDDAY::DAVIES	The next time you're in town..	`Thu Sep 15 1988 01:51`	10
	I did get Writer's Digest a few years ago (not in this country though) but I have not been able to get any of them down here. I am going to attempt to try and get some from a magazine importer here in Sydney. (it may be that I am blind and it is here already,it would not be the first time) Thanks for reminding me of this publication. s.d.
691.6	Future info	GIDDAY::DAVIES	The next time you're in town..	`Tue Sep 20 1988 05:36`	9
	re:.2 While looking through a few other note I stumbled across a bit of information on the Future Writers comp. It is in MLOKAI::PROSE at note 116. s.d.