One of my favourite sites, AbeBooks.co.uk (they have just about every book you could want representing loads of small booksellers) is looking for stories exactly 1,001 words long to tie-in with Penguin Classic's release of a very special limited edition box set of The Arabian Nights worth £125.
AbeBooks says: "The Arabian Nights is one of the best known and most influential works of literature ever written. If you adore beautiful books and classic tales of adventure, love, riches, voyages, thieves and genies, then this box-set is for you.
"To stand a chance of winning, simply write a story for us. It can be about anything - fiction or non-fiction - but must be EXACTLY 1,001 words in length. Oh yeah... don't be boring. Scheherazade kept herself alive with 1,001 entertaining tales and we're looking for short stories that share the same adventurous spirit as The Arabian Nights"
The story judged most entertaining will be published on AbeBooks.co.uk along with other outstanding entries but there isn't much time to take part. The deadline is 9.59am on January 12th 2009, so if entering more competitions was your New year's resolution why not start with this one?!
The competition is open to anyone in the U.K, one entry per person and those under 18 must have their parent/guardian's permission.
You can write your story as a Word document and then copy and paste it into the online entry form. For more details and to take part visit www.abebooks.co.uk/books/contests/arabian-nights.shtml
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