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The downtown Klamath County Library is holding a “Tales of Terror” writing contest for teens in October!
If you’re the spookiest teen writer in Klamath Falls, you’ll take home a $25 gift card to a local book store. (Second prize will take home a $15 gift card.) The winning stories will also be featured on the library’s website and Facebook page.
Entries are due by midnight on Sunday, October 31st, emailed to smiller@klamathlibrary.org. Please use “Tales of Terror Contest” as the subject line of your email, and include your name, age, and a phone number where you can be reached with your story. Please include your short story in the body of the email itself and not as a file attachment. (Attachments will not be opened.)
The rules and fine print:
- Participants must be 12 – 18 years old to enter.
- Limit 1 story per person.
- Entries must be received by midnight on Sunday, October 31st. Winners will be announced in the first week of November via email, on the Teen Contest webpage at klamathlibrary.org/teens/teen-contests and on the library’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/KlamathCountyLibrary.
- Submissions have a 2,000 word maximum, and the story must have a title.
- Include your story in the body of the email itself. Email attachments like Word files will not be opened.
- No photos or illustrations attached to the work, please.
- Your submitted story must be your original work, and not previously published anywhere else.
- Judges reserve the right to disqualify any work deemed inappropriate or that possess culturally inaccurate and/or negatively stereotypical depictions.
For more information, call 541-882-8894 or visit the downtown library’s Youth Services desk. You can find complete contest rules, as well as the winners of previous teen writing contests, at klamathlibrary.org/teens/teen-contests.