It’s that time again. After a long time, I have decided to hold a contest on the blog again. The purpose of having this contest is two fold:-
i)  To interact with bloggers.
ii) To spread the word about the first annual “The MAG” Short Story Writing Contest.

The Prize:
Before I tell you about the contest, let me tell you what you stand to win. If you win the contest, you get to have your 125 X125 ad on the blog for a period of six months. Your ad will be placed right above the “Write Network” badge. Interested? Read on for details.

The Contest:
The MAG is an e-zine that, put in the simplest terms, aims to promote writing. In their endeavour to do just that, they have decided to hold an annual short story writing competition. Since I am associated with The MAG, I decided to use this blog to promote the short story writing competition, and hold this contest.

To enter the contest, all you have to do is write a blog post about the short story writing contest and then leave a comment on this blog with a link to your post. There can only be one entry per blog, and the contest will run for ten days that is till June 4, 2010. Out of all the entries, I will randomly pick a winner whose 125 X 125 badge will remain on the site for the next six months.

There are some images that you can use for the post if you want. These images of different sizes can be found here.

The MAG Short Story Writing Competition:

The MAG, in its endeavour to promote quality writing and thus encourage the good, old, reading habit, is holding a Short Story Writing Competition from 10th January 2010 to 30th June 2010. The winners will get a chance to get published and win some attractive prizes too.

The submission guidelines for the contest can be found here, and the terms and condition for participating in the contest can be found here.  Finally, if you have any questions about the short story writing contest, you  can ask them here.

So, do you want your ad on my blog?

UPDATE1: I just found out that there is a problem with my comments table and I am not getting your comments. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to anyone who has commented in the past couple of days. I am trying to rectify the problem, but the contest is still on. You will however have to use the contact me form (on the navigation bar) instead of the comment form till the time the comments start to work again.

UPDATE2: The problem is resolved, but I have unfortunately managed to lose the comments that have been posted over the past couple of days. So, if you have posted a comment during that time and it has not shown up, you now know why. I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to you and I hope that you will take the time to post your comment again. Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for bearing with me.

After the success of the last contest, it is contest time on the blog once again!

This time the prize is more than the last time, and there is a prize even for those who don’t use Entrecard. You can either enter the contest to win 6000 Entrecard credits or, if you don’t use Entrecard, you could enter the contest to win an 125 X 125 ad space on this blog for three months.  Even if you use Entrecard but would rather win the ad space, you can do that. The 125 X 125 ad will be placed where the money magnet is placed at present.

The Rules :

• You have to subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog via email.
• Then, you have to leave a comment on this post stating whether you are entering the contest for the 6,000 EC or the ad space. You can enter only for one of the two.
• Those who are already subscribed to the RSS feed are not eligible for the contest. Sorry, you guys!
• The contest closes midnight (Indian Standard Time) 31st July, 2008.
• The winners will be announced on 1st August, 2008.
• The winner will have to provide his own 125 X 125 ad, which would be subject to approval before  it is put up on the site.

That is all.

You don’t have to write a post about this contest, but I would really appreciate it if you did. It would be good to see this contest get as much publicity as possible. Best of luck to all those who decide to participate.

P.S. – This contest will have at least two winners. But, if any of you would like to sponsor any prizes for the contest, we could end up having more winners!

Daniel Scocco, the blogger behind Daily Blog Tips, has come up with the idea of holding a “Blogging Idol”  contest.

Participating in contests is always fun, and this one seemed too good to resist. So, naturally, I signed up for it.

Now, I need your help to win it.

How does the contest work, you ask? You could either go to the contest page and read all about the contest, or I could tell you.

Out of the 80 something blogs that are in the fray, the one that gets the most RSS subscribers during the month of July, 2008 will become the Blogging Idol.

So, you can help me win by subscribing to the feed of this blog using the feedburner widget on the top of the right side bar.

Also, if you have any ideas about what I could do to get more people to subscribe to the blog, I will be more than glad to hear from you. You can either leave a comment, or use the Contact Me page to contact me.

Let the subscribing begin!

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At the outset, I would like to apologise to all concerned for the delay in announcing the result for the 4,000 Etrecard credits giveaway contest. I was having a difficult time trying to decide a way to choose the winner.

Eventually, I decided to take the traditional route, and printed the name of all the entries on pieces of paper and the result looked something like this :

Then, I got one of my friends to pick one of the slips, and we had our winner.

Congratulations Brenda! Your 4,000 Entrecard credits will be in your account soon. 

It was fun having a contest on the Blog, and, I think, I am going to be holding some more contests in the future. I would like to thank everyone for participating this time and I hope that the future contests are as successful as this one was.

This is a quick post to let you know that the entries to the contest are now closed. The winner will be announced a little later in the day. If you have entered the contest, do check back to see if you won!