ANNOUNCING
THE 24th ANNUAL
PALO ALTO WEEKLY

ENTRY DEADLINE:
All Writers:
OCTOBER 2, 2009 5:30 p.m.

Entries can also be delivered to our new offices @ 450 Cambridge Ave (off El Camino Real)by 5:30pm Friday, 10/2.

Download the entry form here!

JUDGES: ADULT/YOUNG ADULT TOM PARKER, Award winning novelist and short story writer, UC Extension and Foothill College instructor ELLEN SUSSMAN, Ellen Sussman's latest book, BAD GIRLS: 26 WRITERS MISBEHAVE (WW Norton) just hit the San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller List. She is also the author of a novel, ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS (Warner Books) and many published short stories and essays. She teaches private writing classes. KEITH RAFFEL, Author of the local best seller "Dot Dead: A Silicon Valley Mystery"

CHILDREN/TEEN KATY OBRINGER, Former supervisor of Palo Alto Children's Library CARYN HUBERMAN YACOWITZ, Playwright and children's book author NANCY ETCHEMENDY, Children's book author

Past Winners 2008 Short Story Contest Winners 2007 Short Story Contest Winners 2006 Short Story Contest winners 2005 Short Story Contest winners 2004 Short Story Contest winners 2003 Short Story Contest winners 2002 Short Story Contest winners 2001 Short Story Contest winners 2000 Short Story Contest winners 1999 Short Story Contest winners 1998 Short Story Contest winners 1997 Short Story Contest winners 1996 Short Story Contest winners PRIZES For ADULTS: $500 FIRST PLACE; $300 SECOND PLACE; $200 THIRD PLACE For YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN/TEEN: $100 gift certificate FIRST PLACE; $75 gift certificate SECOND PLACE; $50 gift certificate THIRD PLACE Certificates are from co-sponsoring area bookstores: Kepler's (*ages 15-17), Bell’s Books (*ages 12-14), Linden Tree (*ages 9-11). *age as of entry date All first place winners and their stories will be published in the Palo Alto Weekly in December 2009. All winning stories will be published online on Palo Alto Online. CONTEST RULES 1. The contest is open to anyone who lives, works or attends school full-time in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Stanford, Portola Valley, Woodside, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and East Palo Alto. 2. Limit of one entry per person. 3. Stories must be typed, double-spaced, MAXIMUM 2,500 words. Longer stories will be disqualified. 4. $15 entry fee, along with hard copy, for all ADULT stories. $5 entry fee for YOUNG WRITERS under 18. Make checks payable to "Palo Alto Weekly." 5. Entries may not have been previously published. 6. Signed entry form must accompany story. Author's name should NOT appear anywhere on pages of story. 7. All winners are required to email their story to the Palo Alto Weekly in a Microsoft Word Document as an attachment. Any questions about the contest can be emailed to Amy Renalds Mail manuscripts and entry below to: Palo Alto Weekly Short Story Contest P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302 Download the entry form here! Entries can also be delivered to our new offices @ 450 Cambridge Ave (off El Camino Real)by 5:30pm Friday, 10/2.