“Seasons Readings” Contest Still Open

03 Sunday Mar 2024

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If March weather has you bunkered at home, there is still time to submit a 2000-word or less short story for the BWG Anthology, “Seasons Readings”. Deadline is March 31, 2024.

Holiday stories as those that involve any holiday from US Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, or stories that reference those holidays. There are many such holidays, so fire up that laptop and let your imagination fly.

Submission details at:

2024 Short Story Award

A Fish Out of Water

20 Friday Oct 2023

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The trees have begun to turn on their fall colors, brushing the hillsides with golds and coppers, so it must be time for the Autumn issue of the BWG Roundtable Magazine. It’s also the issue you’ve been waiting for: the second installment of our group story,

A Fish Out of Water

In the first installment, we learned that the Jersey Shore was home to a small colony of merfolk who had taken up living on the land. When Clam Shack server Gloria accompanies the merman Hudson into the sea, that act severs a treaty between the merfolk and the creatures of the deep.

Short Story Contest for 2024 – Seasons Readings

30 Monday Jan 2023

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The Bethlehem Writers Group is seeking never-published short stories of 2,000 words or fewer on the theme: Holiday Stories. “Holiday Stories” are defined as those that take place on or around any holiday from US Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, or stories that reference those holidays.

There are many such holidays, so let your imagination fly for a chance to win:

Winners will receive:

First Place:
$250 and publication in our upcoming anthology: Season’s Readings: More Sweet, Funny, and Strange Holiday Tales

Second Place:
$100 and publication in Bethlehem Writers Roundtable

Third Place:
$50 and publication in Bethlehem Writers Roundtable

Click Here for Contest Submission Rules

Initial blind judging will be done by members of the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC. Finalists will be notified by June 15, 2023.

Final selection of winners will be done by renowned short story author and editor Barb Goffman.

Contest winners will be announced on the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable website and on the Bethlehem Writers Group website by July 1, 2023.

Submissions open at 12:01 a.m. ET on January 1, 2023, and must be received by 11:59 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2023.

Spring Issue of Roundtable Magazine

02 Saturday Apr 2022

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The 2022 Spring Issue of Roundtable Magazine, a publication of the Bethlehem Writers Group, is now available online.

I have the honor to be this season’s featured author with, “Desert Buzz”, a short story about a New Englander’s first Southern Nevada spring that may lead to a budding romance.

This season’s theme, Spring Abuzz, offers featured poem, “Hysteranthous”, by Maggie Kennedy. We also have short stories from William Sharon and Richard L. Shelby, poems by Alexander Zera and Christopher Clauss, Literary Learnings from Carol L. Wright, and the ever-popular writing tips from Betty Wryte-Goode.

Enjoy.

Revised Deadline for “Element of Mystery” Short Story Contest – April 30, 2022

26 Saturday Mar 2022

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Good news for procrastinators. Deadline for the Bethlehem Writers Group short story contest, “An Element of Mystery”, has been extended to April 30, 2022.

Don’t wait until it’s too late.