Does anyone know how to win $10,000 in a poetry contest or writing contest??
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Yes.\n\n1)  Write an award winning poem or short story.\n2)  Enter contest that awards $10,000 for 1st place.\n3)  Win.\n4)  Go to bank with oversized check.\n5)  Despoit check into account.
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Unless you are a prodigy and I am guessing by your spelling you are not, most publishing houses will not do this for free. And most won't publish unless you have an agent, and most agents won't take you unless you have been published (a biatch isn't it?) I have listed a company below that will aid you in publishing your works with out sponsorship from a major publishing company. It will cost you, but it guarantees publication and some distribution opportunities (such as Barnes & Noble, Walden Books, and some websites that just sell books).  If they are just short stories, send them into magazines, sometimes they will pay you for your stories. A word of advice, practice your grammar and spelling technics, it costs extra to have your manuscripts proofread. Good luck!
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Wow...great idea sweety but it is alot of hard work, first of all you need to find *donations* within your community, such as business, tell them it is for a benefit. They can donate gift certificates, cash etc...etc..These will be donated at the poker run as door prizes you sell tickets for these the day of the run.You set a time for the poker run and the route , you must also have atleast 2 dead riders with trailers, these are usually 2 pickup trucks with a trailer and tools, and someone who is a lil mechaniclly inclined to pick up bike riders who have broke down and follow the bikers all the way. You have too designate 4 stops (usually bars) where you made arrangements with the owners to punch each bikers envelope with a certain hole punch, before continuing to the next stop.We usually began our yearly toy and poker run at 7a.m. til 2 a.m .The poker run leaving at 10:30a.m on a 100 mile round trip, but while the riders are gone on the poker run there was games and tattoo artist, back at the place it is held. Posters were placed 2 weeks prior the event, and you need to get ahold of venders such as hot dog stands , nacho stands, crafts, anything you want and they in turn donate a percentage of the sales to you.
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You've got to be joking.  Sorry, that's just not going to happen.  Buy a thousand lottery tickets if you want to try your luck, but even then you will have a VERY small chance of winning.
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Try Writers' Market 2006. The publication isn't free but it has a listing of literary agents.
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sorry, i searched poetry sites,quotation sites, by author,firstlines,subject. best i can think of is contact nearest university library or professor of lit. wish you luck, it sounds like a really heartfelt poem. sure wish i knew it.
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Aw, that's cute. :)\nI probably could whip up a poem for you, but I usually charge. I'm a published poet you see. I'll do things for free for my friends though.\nJust send that poem. If you wrote it yourself it will be that much more special to your friend. :)
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:)) "Consolation Prize Winner "!!!!\nYou win a prize for NOT winning the lottery!!!\nScamalicious!\n\nYou will have to pay fees...the fees cannot be withdrawn from the winnings because the winnings do not exist\n\nI would be willing to bet $25,000,000 that you didnt buy a ticket.\n\nLotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to    "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is
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Contact the colleges and universities in your area.\n\nGrant writing isn't all there is to the task. Once you have the grant, you need to understand project mangement. A workshop might give you a taste but at least an entire course is needed to really be in a position to compete. Even then, you need to get your first grant to really start learning what it's all about.\n\nThere's a pretty small percentage of responses to RFPs (Request for Proposals) are actually funded. Those who fail usually don't try again, on average, for many, many years. Conversely, having had a grant, makes it easier to get the next one.\n\nGood luck. If you want it enough, you can acquire the skills.
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post here, tons of people writing  poetry\n\nhttp://www.eliteskills.com/
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You are supposed to write your own speech, duh.  Of course, I could write one for you, but if I do, you have to give me the prize.\n\nAnd, while you are at it, learn how to spell the word "speech."
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Try Fastweb.com for scholarships. Then, re-take an English or English writing class because if you try to communicate by email/letter with professors and you can't spell or punctuate, there's no way they'll ever take you seriously!! Or find someone to proofread everything before you submit it.\nGood luck!
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post a listing on www.craigslist.com thier are some listing for grant writers on contingency.  I have wrote grants for a contingency fee, good luck keep me posted.
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here' a guide to writing a poetry explication. Now have fun!\nhttp://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html
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Make a list of companies that may be interested to reach your audience and advertises to similar websites.\n\nGet their contact person (you can try sending an email first, without sounding spammy). Submit your proposal -- e.g. instead of spending X amount of dollars advertising, you can reach X number of users by simply donating prizes.\n\nIn our case for example given that we are an online publisher for home business entrepreneurs, we get donations from book publishers who give us their newly published books for free that we give away to our subscribers. One of the big publishers send us regularly 10 copies of each title -- and it's because we are reaching an audience that they want. \n\nSo we had to create a Book Store page that features the new titles that come out and review their books. It's a perfect tit-and-tat arrangement that has worked for several years now, and more publishers are coming on board and giving us books.
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For most poems, any format works. Lets hear it for poetic liscense!\nFor easy readability, put quotes around words being said. You can also put one speaker in one font and the other in another, or by making one speaker right aligned and one left aligned if you have a word processor.
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