Interested in sharing your writing with the Brown County Democrat and all our readers?
Here’s how it works.
Write your Halloween-themed story and send it to us. The rules are pretty simple. It must be 750 words or less and must be connected to Brown County.
The work must be your own and you must own the rights to it, and sign a release giving us permission to publish it. Finally, four winners will be selected and those stories will be published along with the author’s name and photo on the four Wednesdays in October. Any stories that are named honorable mention winners will have their work published on our web site.
We’d suggest dusting off the cobwebs — unless cobwebs, creaky stairs and paintings with moving eyeballs are appropriate to your story — and getting busy. You know the first rule of writing, right? Butt in chair! So get yourself situated in front of a keyboard and let those fingers fly!
Tell us a ghost story, a spooky tale, perhaps a fiction piece about the ghost of T.C. Steele or Abe Martin (could Abe have a ghost?) or perhaps a tale spun from the hills and hollers. That’s the great thing. It’s a Halloween writing contest so the who, what, where and when are all up to you!
How do you enter? Simply e-mail your story to [email protected]. Please copy and paste the story in the body of the e-mail and do not make it an attachment. Entries will be judged by award-winning newspaper journalists and a published author.
