September 30 Deadline for Eat Drink Read Write Festival's Six-Word Food Contest

The deadline to enter the Birmingham Public Library (BPL)’s Six-Word Food Contest is fast approaching. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on September 30 in order to be eligible. Stories will be judged on creativity and originality. The judges are storyteller Dolores Hydock and culinary writer Fletcher Harvey.

As part of our annual celebration of food, drink, and literature the BPL is having a six-word story contest. In only six words, tell us about your adventures with food and submit it to BPL’s Twitter, Instagram, or website via e-mail. View details at the Eat Drink Read Write page.

Four winners will be announced and prizes awarded on Friday, October 6, during the Bards & Brews poetry event taking place at the Central Library as part of the 2017 Eat Drink Read Write Festival.

Ever since legend recorded that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing his famous story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” writers have been challenging themselves to squeeze as much emotion and impact as possible into six words.

Rules

• All submissions must be in English.
• Stories must be exactly six words long.
• Stories submitted via Twitter or Instagram must be tagged with #edrw6wordstory to be eligible.
• Stories may be submitted via email as well. Email your story to bpledrw@gmail.com.

See the submission form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KWtuI5tuO76acp_d2inYzonKaDXx61TwOE3zH1Tif3w/viewform?edit_requested=true

To be eligible, you must be an Alabama resident, aged 18 or over. Birmingham Public Library staff and immediate family members are ineligible. Each winner will receive a copy of Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith.