Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest

Subject: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:15 pm

The magazine is looking for story entries up to 3500 words. Deadline is September 15. Judge is Jodi Picoult. Prize is $3,500 and publication in the magazine.

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Malcolm

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:21 pm

Thanks! I submitted a story. Your suggestions are always appreciated!

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:34 am

You always have fine information, Malcolm. Think I should write "Death of a Good Housekeeper" and send it in?

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:23 am

I don't know, Dick. The magazine wants stories about women coping in the modern world. Considering the way women's roles have changed, the very concept of good housekeeping is dying, at least by my mother's standards.

I'm putting one together on a working single mom to send in. They don't generally have time for it.

Ann

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:41 am

And I'm thinking of one about a retired woman who long ago realized it just wasn't that important.

Carol

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The magazine is titled "Good Housekeeping" so the story that wins will be about good housekeeping -- even if it is by today's standards. The magazine want to use the winning entry to sell more copies of their magazine...

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:08 am

It is a good idea to look at the judge, the author of My Sister's Keeper, so perhaps we need to include more than dusting and cleaning in our stories.

Probably getting a copy of the magazine would help.

Carol

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:17 am

I think Shelagh is right. If I were to write a story about my view of good housekeeping, it may tend to destroy the magazine.
Remember the old TV series where the wife did the house cleaning wearing high heels? Try selling that.

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:17 am

Maybe my entry needed a tongue-in-cheek smiley.
Rolling Eyes

Does this work?

Ann

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:52 pm

Dick, any story with a "Bad Housekeeping" ambiance to it probably isn't going to be read fondly by the judge.

Malcolm

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:01 pm

Boy, that leaves me out. Unless I take Ann's advice and write Lizzie, a Good Houskeeper with a Big Axe.

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:13 pm

Dick, these are modern times, give it a try......might shake them up a bit.

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:18 am

Of course, Lizzie wasn't found guilty, so the thing ends well. Just goes to show how people who appear whacked out may really be okay.

Malcolm

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:28 am

Whacked out? Good one, Malcolm, whether intended or not about Lizzie.
It's strange how certain things grip the minds of people. The two most famous crimes in history out of the millions committed took place at close to the same time in the 19th century, Lizzie Borden and Jack the Ripper.

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:58 pm

Sounds like the subject for a 300,000-word book with many footnotes, Dick. Go for it.

Malcolm

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Malcolm, thanks so much for posting the link. I submitted an entry. sunny

Merri Hiatt

Subject: Re: Good Housekeeping Short Story Contest Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:25 pm

Hope you win, Merri.

Malcolm

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