Hall of Fame  Welcome FAQ Page

Please read the competition rules below and bookmark this page. When you are ready to submit your entries please do so as individual discussions HERE

The short story competition starts today. The theme of your story need not reference Wales in any way. You may submit your entry in either Welsh or English.  Basically you will need to write a short story between 1000 and 3000 words in length and submit it in accordance with the rules for site members or non-site members outlined below. Accompanying graphics ARE permitted but your entry will be judged solely on its literary merit. There is a US150 dollars (approximately 100GBP ) prize for the winner. and  US100 dollars  ( approximately 65GBP ) for the runner up. The final submission date is Sept 15th 2012 . We are immensely proud and pleased to announce that for the fourth consecutive year, author Lloyd Jones will judge the entries in the West Coast Eisteddfod Online Short Story competition. Lloyd is the author of two novels, 'Mr Vogel' and 'Mr Cassini' and a collection of short stories - 'My First Colouring Book'. He has also written the extremely popular Welsh language novel - 'Y Dwr'.  You may submit up to four entries.

This is an exciting opportunity for aspiring short story writers to achieve recognition and publication and we would like to repeat that there are NO registration fees.

The winner and his/her work will also be featured on this site on what we hope will be a heavily trafficked page.

How To Submit Your Story

Members

• Simply join this Group and post your story (and any links) as a separate discussion in the group forum ( see "Gangsta Lorem Ipsum" example below). If you wish to include a link to your website or blog please do so but remember you must link back to us. Please DO NOT submit attachments...cut and paste your story into a discussion dialog box. Add your title and attribution as per the 'Gangsta Lorem Ipsum' example in the Forum.

• Post your story on your website or blog and post a link to the relevant url as a separate discussion in the group forum ( see "Lorem Ipsum" example below).. Once again you will need to link back to us.

Non Members

• Post your submission on your blog and email us with the url ( americymru@gmail.com ). We will include it on the Group page. We would appreciate a link to this page or to the blog home page.

• Email your submission to us and we will post it on the group page and credit you as author. ( in this case mutual linking is an option but not required )

The Fine Print

• There is no entry or submission fee for this competition. The requirement to backlink if you are posting on your own blog and linking here ( or submitting a link to your blog on this page ) is obligatory and designed to be mutually beneficial.

• Any materials submitted in this group will remain the sole property of the author. We guarantee not to display any story or any portion thereof on other pages or sites without the express permission of the author. Likewise materials submitted here or linked here can be removed or unlinked at any time by the author or at his/her request.

• Cash prizes will only be awarded in the event that there are a minimum of 12 competiton entries. This applies equally to the Welsh and English language categories. It should be pointed out that we have not, in three years, failed to achieve this target for English language submissions.