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Renderosity Interactive Magazine's
Issue 9 - Writer's Contest!

The Quest

Two Contests In One
Best Short Story and Best Poem Contest is closed and winners will be announced on March 3rd.

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Prizes

1st Place Story and Poem	2nd Place Story and Poem
Story/Poem Featured in "Rendeorsity Interactive Magazine" Issue 9 Copy of "Renderosity Interactive Magazine" Issue 9	Story/Poem Featured in "Renderosity's Writing Forum" Library of Honor
Rosity T-Shirt $25 MP Gift Certificate	Rosity T-Shirt $10 MP Gift Certificate
An Artist Guide to Getting Published by Hisminky	A special thank you to the following, for their generous donation of prizes to the Renderosity Interactive Magazine Writing Contest: Hisminky for donating copies of her digital book "An Artist Guide to Getting Published" ProWrite: the professional writer's resource

Bonus Prize: A one year subscription (a $28 value) to ProWrite (the online subscription includes the Creative Small Biz ezine and Your EveryDay Write ezine, free monthly writing courses, and couching). Bonus Prize Selection: After the Poetry and Short Story winners have been chosen, the remaining entries will be placed in a random drawing. One entry will be selected at random and awarded the Bonus Prize. You must provide a name and email address for this prize.

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All Entrants Agree; by entering this contest, to allow Renderosity to use their entries for promoting Renderosity Magazine: online, digital, in print, on CD, or in any other medium used to promote the magazine. Also, by submitting your entry into this contest you are granting Renderosity the right to retain your entry in its archive and to display the the entry within this community to promote Renderosity or future contests held as a part, or extension of this community. Renderosity does not seek ownership of any of the entries! Full copyrights still belong to the individuals submitting their entries into this contest.

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Submission Guidelines

Your story/poem must be based on a quest! Tell us your tale in 1000 words or less. Ignore the 5 line limit on the box when you upload - that limit is only for "image contests" Double space between paragraphs. Type directly in the upload box or copy/paste from Notepad (or similar editing program). Copy/Pasting from complex word processing programs, such as MS Word, can change certain characters. If you use MS Word: Copy/Paste from Word into Notepad, then Copy/Paste into the contest upload box. Do not insert html formating

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Image Submission

Before uploading your text: right click on the following appropriate images and save to your hard drive. Rename the image: thumb.jpg or main.jpg When you upload your text - upload the appropriate images (either Poem or Story).

Short Story Thumbnail: Use this image as your thumbnail image when uploading your Short Story text.	Poem Thumbnail Image: Use this image as your thumbnail image when uploading your Poetry text.
Short Story Full Image: Use this image as your full image when uploading your Short Story text.	Poem Full Image: Use this image as your full image when uploading your Poetry text.

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Contest Rules:

Contest Theme - The Quest: Only one entry per member - Enter a short story or poem depicting a tale surrounding a quest: Both fiction and nonfiction works accepted
Contest begins Jan 28th - and - Ends Feb 26th, 2004 at Noon Renderosity Server Time. (Entries MUST be timestamped by the contest ending date/time.) Winners announced: March 3rd, 2004 in the Magazine Team Forum All members and moderators can enter: with the exception of those members listed as judges or current Magazine Staff, and Admins. Very Important : your story/poem must be new works , not previously posted online, in your gallery, or anywhere else publicly. Entries must not appear online anywhere during the contest or until the Contest Winners have been posted. By entering into the contest, "Poetry and Short Story Winners" agree to not publish their stories until 90 days after the publication of Issue 9. No sexual or extreme violence - stories/poems must be suitable for all audiences and abide by Renderosity's Terms of Service. Only one story/poem [either poem or short story] per member allowed (this includes member clones - that is, even if you have multiple accounts, only one entry per PERSON). By uploading your story/poem you are agreeing that this is your original work. (Contest winners will be required to sign a statement verifying this.) Authors will remain the intellectual property holder of their entries. Judges' decision is final. The Renderosity Interactive Magazine Writer's Contest is sponsored by The Renderosity Magazine!