Contest

Maryn · Feb 7, 2008

I just now stumbled across this while looking at an eccentric collection of ashtrays. Yeah. I wasn't even trying to find the author of Try, it just happened.

Anyway, from this site,

The Open Door Project

'A five-day publishing introduction intensive in New York City -- including a series of lunches with literary agents, book editors, and other publishing figures, a public reading, and a private cocktail reception with New York's writing community will be awarded to the winner of the first Open Door Project fiction competition.

The contest is open to gay men writing fiction with queer content who have not yet published a book of fiction. Accommodations and transportation will be provided to an out of town winner. Judges include Christopher Bram, Alexander Chee, Samuel R. Delany, Dennis Cooper, Robert Gluck, E. Lynn Harris, Scott Heim, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Stephen McCauley, Dale Peck, and John Weir.

Submit stories or stand-alone novel excerpts of up to 8,000 words by March 1, 2008. The winner will be announced June 08. There is no entry fee. Submissions should be mailed to:

Don Weise, Open Door Project
c/o Oscar Wilde Bookshop
15 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014

Please do not contact the bookstore for information about the Open Door Project. Queries can be sent to [email protected]. No queries confirming receipt or status of submissions please.

Maryn, who'll have to grow a penis, and fast!

MargueriteMing · Feb 7, 2008

And I thought gender and orientation discrimination was dead among east coast liberals. How open is that door that only admits gay men?

davids · Feb 7, 2008

MargueriteMing said:
And I thought gender and orientation discrimination was dead among east coast liberals. How open is that door that only admits gay men?

YUP AND I KNOW OF AT LEAST ONE GAY NOVEL WRITTEN BY A STRAIGHT MAN THAT IS AWFULLY HORNTOADISH GOOD-WELL THERE IS A ONE LEGGED ISRAELI WOMAN WHO GETS INVOLVED WITH EM-BUT HEY-VIVA LA DIFFERENCIONEYE RIGHT?

OH AND CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE PASSWORD FOR THE EROTICA SYW FORUM IS I HAD TO RE BOOT AND IT DISEYEPEARICATED-THANKS DAVE

She_wulf · Feb 7, 2008

davids said:
YUP AND I KNOW OF AT LEAST ONE GAY NOVEL WRITTEN BY A STRAIGHT MAN THAT IS AWFULLY HORNTOADISH GOOD-WELL THERE IS A ONE LEGGED ISRAELI WOMAN WHO GETS INVOLVED WITH EM-BUT HEY-VIVA LA DIFFERENCIONEYE RIGHT?

OH AND CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE PASSWORD FOR THE EROTICA SYW FORUM IS I HAD TO RE BOOT AND IT DISEYEPEARICATED-THANKS DAVE

Contact the moderator via private message, they'll send you a reply message back with the password. You're not getting it from me...

zips lips.

Amy

gingerwoman · Feb 8, 2008

How open is that door that only admits gay men?

LOL Gay American male. I doubt even if I had a penis and good taste in interior design they'd pay my transportation fee from New Zealand.
But seriously this is an AWESOME opportunity for some gay male American!!!

Contest

Maryn

I Tried

MargueriteMing

davids

She_wulf

that's me

gingerwoman