Writing Contest!

The clock is immensely self-satisfied to offer an expert-level writing contest. Please follow these guidelines and you could be the proud owner of a $50 gift certificate to Borders bookstore, which you can use for online purchasing if you don’t want to leave Plymouth. So listen, it can be between 500 and 2000 words. We don’t want any sissy poetry; it has to be prose. We’re not opposed to poetic prose, but no line breaks. Feel free to submit up to five entries. There will be two winning pieces that receive one gift cert each. They can belong to the same author. You have the potential to win $100 of corporate bookstore trash. The winning pieces will be showcased in the pre-Christmas break issue of The Clock. There’ll be no censorship on the pieces, but please keep all transgressions pertinent. There will be extra points for minimal editing and flashy vocabularies. Keep in mind that the judging panel contains at least two writing snobs of an extreme degree, and we will look down on you as a person if you submit inferior prose. This is for the cream of the quill. Don’t waste our time with bar-napkin ballads or proliferated away messages. If we don’t get any decent submissions, no one wins. Submissions due on Dec. 7. Email entries to:DMCommins@clock.plymouth.edu