Gather Ye Shorts

According to the The Writer Magazine newsletter:

Gather.com is sponsoring the Gather Short-Form Writing Competition. Entries must be 2,000 to 10,000 words length and must be previously unpublished. Each month, the top three highest-rated stories, as voted upon by Gather members, plus one Editors' Pick will be submitted for publication on Amazon.com through the Amazon Shorts program.

Amazon Shorts was created last summer as a place for published authors to try out their new works. Now, for the first time, Amazon is giving non-published authors the chance to be published alongside them. This is a first-of-its-kind opportunity, and there's no fee to enter!

Group Invite Gather: " The new Gather.com writing contest where unpublished writers compete to sell their short-form work on Amazon.com. Winners will be the 3 entries with the highest number of votes and average rating, along with 1 editors' pick. Enter now! "

I guess I finally have an answer to an old question about whether or not Amazon Shorts only accepted well-known authors' works. All this hoopla over a piece that will sell for only 49 cents!

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