Comments on: PLOTTO: THE MASTER CONTEST OF ALL PLOTS – Student Edition – Week 1 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/18060/plotto-the-master-contest-of-all-plots-student-edition-week-1.html Home of the magazine, the books, and the conference Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Masie Cochran http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/18060/plotto-the-master-contest-of-all-plots-student-edition-week-1.html#comment-13375 Masie Cochran Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:00:06 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=18060#comment-13375 We've opened submissions for FLASH FRIDAY! Please send your flash (under 1,000 words) to theopenbar@tinhouse.com with FLASH FRIDAY as the subject line. We’ve opened submissions for FLASH FRIDAY! Please send your flash (under 1,000 words) to theopenbar@tinhouse.com with FLASH FRIDAY as the subject line.

]]> By: Masie Cochran http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/18060/plotto-the-master-contest-of-all-plots-student-edition-week-1.html#comment-13374 Masie Cochran Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:35:02 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=18060#comment-13374 We love Plotto, and the Plotto contests. It's great to have free, weekly contests and so far we've been lucky, getting great stories from all over the world. After the first two contests, which ran for twelve weeks, we received interest from teachers at universities and community colleges about using Plotto in the classroom. In our open contests we did not receive a lot of work from students, so we decided to encourage students to submit to this round of contests. We hope this effort prompts students (english, math, nursing, history, you name it) to write flash fiction. Of course, this is meant to be a fun contest, and we never want to turn writers away--we just want to give writers who haven't had a platform a chance to have editors read their work. We will continue to offer more Plotto contests in the future, which will once again be open to everyone. We love Plotto, and the Plotto contests. It’s great to have free, weekly contests and so far we’ve been lucky, getting great stories from all over the world. After the first two contests, which ran for twelve weeks, we received interest from teachers at universities and community colleges about using Plotto in the classroom. In our open contests we did not receive a lot of work from students, so we decided to encourage students to submit to this round of contests. We hope this effort prompts students (english, math, nursing, history, you name it) to write flash fiction. Of course, this is meant to be a fun contest, and we never want to turn writers away–we just want to give writers who haven’t had a platform a chance to have editors read their work. We will continue to offer more Plotto contests in the future, which will once again be open to everyone.

]]> By: Richard Osgood http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/18060/plotto-the-master-contest-of-all-plots-student-edition-week-1.html#comment-13362 Richard Osgood Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:31:18 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=18060#comment-13362 "Calling all undergrad and graduate writers, scribblers, fabricators, deep-thinkers, and plot-obsessives—we want you!" Uhm, do the modifiers "undergrad" and "graduate" only modify "writers," or do they also modify "scribblers, fabricators, deep-thinkers, and plot-obsessives?" Does "undergrad" and "graduate" apply only to enrollment in writing programs within academic institutions or if I like to write but my major is history, can I enter? Or better yet, I graduated in 1990 but still consider myself an "undergrad writer" because I haven't published anything of significance, so do I qualify to enter? And will these rather amorphous criteria apply only to this week or the complete round? Sincerely, Many more than me . . . “Calling all undergrad and graduate writers, scribblers, fabricators, deep-thinkers, and plot-obsessives—we want you!”

Uhm, do the modifiers “undergrad” and “graduate” only modify “writers,” or do they also modify “scribblers, fabricators, deep-thinkers, and plot-obsessives?” Does “undergrad” and “graduate” apply only to enrollment in writing programs within academic institutions or if I like to write but my major is history, can I enter? Or better yet, I graduated in 1990 but still consider myself an “undergrad writer” because I haven’t published anything of significance, so do I qualify to enter? And will these rather amorphous criteria apply only to this week or the complete round?

Sincerely,
Many more than me . . .

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