Sponsoring Institution: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Type: Writing contest
Eligibility:
• Anyone can participate!
Highlight: Fantasy is a reality twisted on impossible possibilities. Baen Fantasy Adventure Story Writing Competition invites submissions in the fantasy genre! In this story writing competition, participants must submit a 8000-word fantasy short story (any sub-genre is accepted). Focus your submission on a fantasy adventure with heroic characters that you want to root for! You must submit your short story for this story writing competition by emailing it to baenfantasyaward@baen.com in .RTF file format with the subject ‘BFAA SUBMISSION’ For further details on the formatting for this story writing competition, check out this guidelines page! The 1st place winner of this story writing competition is published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website, paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals, an engraved award, and a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. The 2nd place winner of this story writing competition wins a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. While the 3rd place winner gets a prize package containing $300 of free Baen Books. Still have questions regarding this story writing competition? You can email them at baenfantasyaward@baen.com with the subject line ‘BFAA QUESTION’ what are you waiting for? Applications close late April, so start creating your epic hero!