The Wintry City Writing Contest

Chicago is known as The Windy City. But this year it seems more like
The Wintry City. So warm up those writing fingers and pen your best
short story, essay or poem, no more than 1,000 words, using the
theme: The Wintry City.

First place winner will receive a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card, a
gift basket filled with writerly goodies, a CWA T-shirt and coffee
mug, and publication of the winning entry on our Windy City Writers
blog.

Second and third place winners will each receive a CWA T-shirt and
coffee mug and publication of their winning entry on our Windy City
Writers blog.

All entries should be sent by email (no attachments, please) to
RandMansWorld@gmail.com and must be received by Dec. 31, 2008. Once
the clock strikes midnight and rings in the new year, it will be too
late.

This contest is open to DUES-PAYING MEMBERS ONLY, so if you haven't
registered as a member of the Chicago Writers Association this is the
time to do it. This also serves as a reminder that this Yahoo!
Listserve will be closed to all but dues-paying members effective
January 1, 2009. Membership is only $15 per year. Visit our website,
http://www.chicagowrites.org, to sign up via PayPal. You can also
send a check made payable to Chicago Writers Association to: Chicago
Writers Association, PO Box 6505, Evanston, IL 60204.

Winners will be selected by our dues-paying members during voting to
take place between January 1-15, 2009. A voting poll will be set up
on our Yahoo! Group site.

For those who don't know, CWA is now a federally registered not-for-
profit organization and depends largely on membership dues for
funding. The monies we collect will help us to fund events and
projects we are planning for next year, including a springtime launch
party, development of a Chicago Writers Hall of Fame and
participation at the Printers Row Book Fair.