Roger-@lucy.com
Something to do if you are not doing the Cross Crusade :)
I think there may be a budding author out there ....
-r
-----Original Message-----
From: fixed-ge-@lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca
[mailto:fixed-ge-@lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca]On Behalf Of Michael
Barker
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:19 PM
To: fixed-@lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca; ICEB-@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Subject: [FIXED-GEAR] bicycle writing contest
There is, at times, a frightening amount of erudition on this list so I
thought I'd pass this along.
Michael
Writing Contest -- BICYCLE LOVE
$1000 first prize, $500 2nd prize, $250 3rd prize.
Top 40 essays chosen to be published in a book.
All authors chosen for publication will receive two free copies of the book
and the right to buy as many as they like at 50% discount.
No entry fee.
DEADLINE: November 30, 2002.
(But please submit earlier if you can, so
we don't receive all the entries on one day.)
BICYCLE LOVE
Okay, so some of us are a bit too attached to our bicycles. Some may say
this
is "inappropriate" or "unnatural." But here at Breakaway Books we think
excessive bicycle-love is a fine and glorious thing. Bicycles take us
places,
physically and metaphysically, we cannot go without them. They move us;
they
make us dizzy and giddy, exhilarated and exhausted.
We're looking for stories of passion, devotion, or obsession -- and some
good
cycling -- capturing the sublime nature of rider and bike. We seek
inspiring
personal tales showing the many wonders of cycling. Please submit your
lively
essay, comic or serious, on the joys of mountain or road riding, and your
unbridled feelings about your bike. Tell us about the place cycling has in
your life. Try to capture all that is good about it -- the obvious and the
ineffable.
We also considered calling this contest "How Bicycling Changed My Life," or
"Why I Love My Bicycle So Damned Much." Feel free to incorporate these
themes
into your essay as well.
Essays should be 750-2000 words. Give your essay a title other than
"Bicycle
Love," if you can.
Submissions will be judged based on quality of writing, clarity of voice,
and
emotional and narrative power.
E-mail your entry (as a Word attachment, or in the text body of the mail)
to:
Bike-@breakawaybooks.com
Or mail it to:
Writing Contest
Breakaway Books
P.O. Box 24
Halcottsville, NY 12438
Please include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address if you
have one.
Pass along this information to anyone you know who might have an
interesting
story to tell.
Good luck. We look forward to hearing your story.
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