The Heartbeat's February 2024 Romance Writing Contest - Lightheart-Tales with the Heartbeat!
The Heartbeat is thrilled to announce the first of our monthly Heartbeat Writing Contests, "Lightheart-Tales with the Heartbeat".
For the month of February, The Heartbeat is calling upon Holy Heart students to write their own original lighthearted stories or scenes to capture the essence of the month. We are looking for works of the romance genre, love stories, and encourage all types of love or lightheartedness to be presented, albeit school appropriate. You may include any other splices of genre into your stories, although they must focus must be on the prompt above. We encourage writers to think creatively, and to write what is in your heart. We will accept any works of prose fiction (short stories or scenes), or poetry within the contest guidelines. Happy Valentines and happy writing!
How to Enter and Submission Guidelines:
1. Write an original love-related story, scene or poem. Submissions may have a maximum of 1000 words. Entrants must be Holy Heart students. There may be only one entry per person.
2. Submit your entries to @[email protected] in a .doc or PDF file format, using the subject line "Heartbeat February Writing Submission 2024". All submissions must be sent through an nlesd or nlschools email account.
The First Place Winner and Runner-Up will have their work published in the February 21st, 2024 issue of the Heartbeat newsletter.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 19 at 3PM.
For the month of February, The Heartbeat is calling upon Holy Heart students to write their own original lighthearted stories or scenes to capture the essence of the month. We are looking for works of the romance genre, love stories, and encourage all types of love or lightheartedness to be presented, albeit school appropriate. You may include any other splices of genre into your stories, although they must focus must be on the prompt above. We encourage writers to think creatively, and to write what is in your heart. We will accept any works of prose fiction (short stories or scenes), or poetry within the contest guidelines. Happy Valentines and happy writing!
How to Enter and Submission Guidelines:
1. Write an original love-related story, scene or poem. Submissions may have a maximum of 1000 words. Entrants must be Holy Heart students. There may be only one entry per person.
2. Submit your entries to @[email protected] in a .doc or PDF file format, using the subject line "Heartbeat February Writing Submission 2024". All submissions must be sent through an nlesd or nlschools email account.
The First Place Winner and Runner-Up will have their work published in the February 21st, 2024 issue of the Heartbeat newsletter.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 19 at 3PM.