Portland's OryCon 31 Writer's Workshop (November 27-29, 2009) opens for manuscript submissions August 1st through September 4th. This is a great opportunity to receive friendly but frank critiques of your work by pros in small group settings.

Manuscript-formatted submissions of SciFi, Fantasy, or Horror short story or novel length excerpts are limited to 7500 words and require a cover letter of 300 words or less. Novel excerpts additionally require a synopsis of 500 words or less.

Electronic submissions are preferred.

Submission fees are $10.00 per submission and writers must have an OryCon membership to attend.

E-mail Carole Cole at ww@orycon.org for fee and hard copy mailing address. Visit OryCon's Writer's Workshop guidelines page for more information and details.

http://orycon.org/orycon31/writers/writers.php