Writing Contest for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated!

WIN PRIZES!

NEW YORK PUBLISHER SPONSORS WRITING CONTEST FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED

New
York, NY (BlackNews.com) - Resilience Multimedia, publisher of the widely
praised book, Think Outside the Cell: An Entrepreneur's Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated, is sponsoring a writing contest for people who are or were in prison, and their loved ones. The best submissions will be included in books in Resilience's Think Outside the Cell Series, which is intended to help the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated tackle hard challenges and have successful lives.

Contestants may write personal stories about one or more of these topics:

* Reentering society after incarceration

* Waiting for loved ones to return home from prison

* Prison marriages and relationships

Three
winners will be chosen for each topic and will receive these prizes: 

 * 1st Place: $300

 * 2nd Place: $150

 * 3rd Place: $75

 Stories
that do not win cash prizes will still be eligible for inclusion in the series.
Writers whose stories are selected will receive a free copy of the book in
which their work appears.

These
are the contest rules:

* All stories must be original and about situations or events that actually

happened.

* You may submit stories on more than one topic.

* Stories may be up to 3,000 words.

* Stories should be typewritten and double-spaced.

* Handwritten stories will be accepted as long as they are legible.

* Each page must include page number, your name, contact information and
story title.

* Resilience Multimedia reserves the right to edit stories for clarity, punctuation,
spelling and grammar.

* Story entries will not be returned.

* ALL ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY NOVEMBER 30, 2008.

WINNERS
AND OTHER SELECTED STORIES  WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FEBRUARY 1, 2009 AT www.thinkoutsidethecell.com 
<http://www.thinkoutsidethecell.com>

AND IN
A PRESS RELEASE.

Here's how to enter:

Email your story, indicating which topic it is intended for, to:

resiliencemultimedia@verizon.net

OR mail
your story to:

Resilience Multimedia

511 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 525 

New York, NY 10011

Questions?
Email resiliencemultimedia@verizon.net, call

877-267-2303 or

write to the above address.