On Sunday January 27, 2008 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Pomegranate Books, we will hold an open mic contest with the winner to be decided by audience vote. The winner will receive a cash prize, and anyone can enter to read. Newcomers are welcome.

All entries will put one dollar in the pot to have a chance to read. Six finalists will be drawn randomly to read their 10-minute writing sample to the group. The best reading (as voted on by the audience) wins the accumulated money in the pot.

Each reading must be under 10 minutes, and must be your own work (i.e. you can't read a section from someone else's novel or poem). So bring a 10-minute section of your writing to read to the group, one dollar to enter into the pool, and you could be voted the winner by your peers.

Additionally, we will start things off with a guest author discussion and reading by newly published Matthew Peterson. Matt's first novel Paraworld Zero has just been published by Creative Windstorm, and we'll talk about how he sold it to them.