Lettuce Be Writers Competition
Started using twitter to search for writing competitions and found a really cool competition being held by a company WiDo Publishing in Utah.

"The prize:will be a critique review of the first three chapters of your manuscript! (could be the ms you're querying but doesn't have to be)"

There will be three winners and everyone entering will get a reply regarding their submitted manuscript. 

Full details on how to enter can be found here:  http://bit.ly/WidoComp

Closing date:  21 August 2010

The judges are Allie Maldonado 'Scary Allie' of WiDo Publishing and  Karen Gowen 'Nice Karen' of Let-uce Be Writers. 

Entry is really easy.  All you have to do is:

1.  Subscribe to the blog (this also gives you an indication on how many people could possibly be entering the competition - currently 341)

2.  Advertise the blog (I tweeted and added this entry to my blog.  You could simply retweet my tweet)

3.  Email the first three chapters of your manuscript as word/pdf attachment with 'Lettuce Write Contest' as the email subject. 

Recently on Twitter I have been followed, my links have been clicked and I've been 're-tweeted'.  For me, that's quite exciting. 

I wondered how people found me and discovered they must have searched on topics that I have tweeted about.  I decided to give this idea a go and searched for something I'd like to find 'Writing Competitions'. 

I follwed a link to a website called "Fiction on Demand" and there was a very intersting competition on Speculative Fiction.... but I didn't read the closing date which was the end of May until after I finished writing my piece titled 'Giskard'.  Although 'Giskard' was too late to enter I shall add it to the 'Comp Stories' section of the site.

I returned to twitter to search again adn 'Fiction on Demand' came up again.  This time for a competition on 'The Sixties' and I have until 13 August 2010 to enter.  You can check out the details here:  http://bit.ly/FOD-TheSixties