FieldReport Update

In this blog post a few weeks ago I talked about FieldReport, a new, ongoing online writing contest and writers community.

FieldReport was - and still is - offering big cash prizes for true-life stories, with no entry fees required.

Anyway, I've been asked to remind readers that the final submissions deadline for the January prizes is coming up soon (Nov 15 2008), so now is the time to send in your stories.

There are 20 categories you can choose from, but according to data received from my informant, two categories in which there haven't been as many good submissions so far are Real Breaking News and Sport/Challenge. So if you have a good true story in either of these categories, your chances of success could be better than you think.

Also, if you know any teenagers - or you are one - they are looking for the best submission by a teenage writer in the TeenReport category. There is a special $25,000 prize for the best story in this category.

FieldReport is open to anyone in the world. The monthly category prizes are worth $1,000, with a monthly $4,000 prize for the top-rated story in any category. Not only that, on January 5 2009 the best overall submission as voted for by FieldReport members will be awarded the $250,000 Grand Prize.

So get your thinking cap on, and get over to the FieldReport website today. And if you win, remember who sent you ;-)

UPDATE: I've just heard that FieldReport's final submission deadline has been extended till 31 December 2008.