President in 50 Words or Less Contest

It's election time in the USA and the whole world is a watching! The debates are over. We're down to the wire, and it's going to be a proverbial fight to the finish!! Let's exercise our persuasive writing skills and see who wins the election in this issue's President in 50 Words or Less Contest.

So pick up your pens or get your keyboards clacking and answer the question, "Why Bush?" or "Why Kerry?" in no more than 50 words, and we'll see who wins!

Submit as many entries as you'd like, but each entry must be by separate email and accompanied by separate payment. Winning entry will be judged on creativity and "fictional quality."

First Place wins:

• $25 cash

• Publication in Writer Online

• Free Paperback - Race for Terre Bluff (Political Fiction)

Second and third place will win writing software, a free eBook of Race for Terre Bluff in PDF format and publication in Writer Online.

Deadline Thursday, October 28, 2004 12pm EST, USA

No submissions accepted after deadline.
NOTE: We'll send a single confirmation of receipt of your payment.
WOL can't be responsible for communication problems or missing emails. Entrants should use the "confirm receipt" option in their email program. WOL cannot refund entry fees for entries that are not accompanied by a submission.

Pay the contest fee, then email your submission to: contests@writeronline.us

After paying your entry fee, please make sure you send in your submission. Write the title at the top. Please put your full name, postal address and email address at the bottom. This provides WOL with identifying information.

NOTE: If you do not receive notification that your submission was received, please send it in to the email address listed below again. (We often receive entry fees without entries.)

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Contest fee : $5.00 if paying by credit card; $7.00 if paying by U.S. check; $12.00 if paying by non-U.S. check.

If paying by check, please make out in the correct amount (!) and send to:

Mary Anne Donovan
468 Hinchey Rd.
Rochester, NY 14624

With receipt of payment, all Writer Online contest entrants receive a coupon for a $10.00 discount on purchase of the Writer's Software Companion .

Contest Rules

Submit entries by email to contests@writeronline.us . ( No attached documents, please ). Winners will be announced in our next issue.

Please include your name and mailing address in your email. Prizes and publication offered only to entrants who have are Writer Online subscribers and who have paid their entry fee.

1) Subscribe to Writer Online by entering your email address here:

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By submitting, the entrant certifies that the work is original. Please do not write follow-up memos regarding the status of your submission.

Writer Online reserves the right to publish and archive any winning contest entry without further notice to the writer. Cash awards will be made by check and mailed within 30 days of the publication of the winning entry.