creativewriting

One of the things that first got me into creative writing when it was younger was writing contests. In addition to the appeal of a cash reward, I liked the idea of competing against other entities.

I haven't done extensive research into creative writing contest over the past few months, but it seems that the writing contest and poetry contest market's have shrunken over the past few years. Would you guys agree, or am I just checking all the wrong places?

I think writing contests are agreat way to motivate oneself to write better.