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“The Threadbare Heart” Mother’s Day Contest

May 2, 2010 Suzannah Windsor Freeman Filed Under: Site News

“The Threadbare Heart” Mother’s Day Contest
Image courtesy 104419843@N02 on Flickr

Please note: This contest is open to U.S. participants only.

The Threadbare Heart is the story of a mother and a daughter torn apart by grief, jealousy and misunderstanding—and the family heirloom that finally brings them together.

To celebrate its publication, and in honor of Mother’s Day, author Jennie Nash is running a Favorite Fictional Mother & Daughter contest.

Check out my interview with Jennie Nash, and my review of The Threadbare Heart.

How to Enter

Which fictional mother-daughter pair (from literature or film) made you laugh? Made you cry? Made you cringe? Which pair revealed something true about your own mother-daughter relationships?

Send me a 250 word essay explaining your favorite fictional mother-daughter pair.

You can only enter on one participating blog.

Please send your essay to <suzannah [at] this site name [dot] com> by Saturday, May 8th.

Winners & PrizesThe Threadbare Heart

On Mother’s Day, each  of the other participating bloggers and I will post our favourite entries. Each blog’s winners will receive a signed copy of The Threadbare Heart and will be entered in the Grand Prize Giveaway.

On May 16, Jennie Nash will choose a Grand Prize winner from all the winning blog entries. (How will she pick? Whichever entry hits her as being heartfelt and true.)

The Grand Prize will be announced on the participating blogs, on Jennie Nash’s website and on Twitter.

The Grand Prize winner will receive a Book Club in a Box, ten signed copies of The Threadbare Heart, a call-in from the author, and a delicious rum cake to share with your book-reading friends. (Why rum cake? You’ll have to read the book to
understand!)

I look forward to reading all of your entries. Good luck!

Filed Under: Site News

About Suzannah Windsor Freeman

Suzannah Windsor is the founding/managing editor of Writeitsideways.com and Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire, Geist, The Writer, Sou'wester, Anderbo, Grist, Saw Palm, Best of the Sand Hill Review, and others. Suzannah is working on a novel and a collection of short stories, both of which have received funding from the Ontario Arts Council.

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Join the discussion

  1. Ray Colon says

    May 8, 2010 at 11:35 am

    Hi Suzannah, I just Emailed my entry. What prompted me to write an essay for this contest? That would have to be your tweet from yesterday:

    “Last day to enter 250 word writing contest (let’s just say if you enter now you have a v.good chance of winning!)”

    Too funny. I like when odds are in my favor. LOL

    But seriously, I hope that your promotion prompted others to participate. Having favorable odds is one thing, but no one likes a one horse race. Besides, once I started, I had fun writing the essay. Ray

    • Suzannah says

      May 8, 2010 at 9:21 pm

      Hi Ray,

      Just sent you an email saying I never received your entry! Try using the contact page to re-send. Thank you!

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