Deadline: 18 August 2010
Geographical coverage: undisclosed
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): essays
Prize/Payment: book
Contact: lauren@girlyourenotalone.com
If you’re happy with wrinkles and you have them, clap your hands….. clap…clap… WHAAATEVER!! I like wrinkles as much as I liked my 9th grade English teacher. She would read my papers aloud, correcting openly as she read. Suck it, lady! She was just upset because donning 80’s flybacks in ‘92 with yellow hair/grey roots lead me to believe she was much older. At 14, I didn’t have mouth control, so when her 7 year old daughter visited class, I very politely said, “You have such a cute granddaughter.” She corrected me immediately then hated and tortured me for the rest of the year. I didn’t know how I felt about wrinkles at 14, but I do now… and with experience, I realized my loathe for her and facial lines were the same. I have a problem with harboring feelings…..
ANYWHO..to my point… At 25, we all start freaking out about age. At 33, I like it’s ridiculous that someone at the age of 25 doesn’t realize how young they are, then again, my girlfriends at 43 keep telling me I don’t realize how young I am… and so on…. and so on. Regardless of the decade inhabited, we have an embarrassing story with age involved. Whether someone got our age terribly wrong, we wore something too old or too young or we wet our pants from sneezing … most of us have a funny, embarrassing story attributed to age.
Tell us your story! I’ll sweeten the deal. With the help of Stephanie Dolgoff, blogger and author of “My Formerly Hot Life,” I’m able to offer THREE lucky winners a copy of her book! It launches on August 17th which means.. the winners will be lucky owners of the book as it hits book stores!
Here’s the deal:
1) Submit your story here by August 18th or email your story to lauren@girlyourenotalone.com. In the “title” or “subject” line please put “Contest - INSERT YOUR STORY TITLE.” **
2)Please keep entries to 700 words max!
3) Please make sure to add your full name, email address and home address at the end of your story to ensure winners receive their books!
4) Winners will be announced Sunday, August 22nd!
5) Share with as many of your friends as possible! Encourage anyone you know with a perplexing age story to SUBMIT! Regardless if your submission makes the Top Three, it is likely to be used for future posts and related GYNA publications.
6) What are you waiting for? Pour yourself a little vino, make a litte ice cream sandwich and start writing your experience! Get it in by August 18th! Don’t worry about grammer/misspellings! It’s the content we care about!
** By sending entry via email, you submit your story to girlyourenotalone.com, and it is understood that your story may be posted on girlyourenotalone.com or any future GYNA publication with no monetary compensation.
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