[stylist] Nonfiction Category in Contest

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Lori and listers,

    Perhaps the Imagination Fund could be used to sponsor the non-fiction 
contest and support for the poetry and fiction contests could come from 
other sources such as possible support from the funds raised from the Lewis 
Braille Coin sales.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Nonfiction Category in Contest


Note:   If we give smaller prizes, we will have fewer entries!

It seems to me a good idea to at least ask for an Imagination fund grant.
But to get it, we'll need to sponsor a nonfiction contest asking people to
either write their blindness experiences or to discuss their philosophy of
blindness and how they applied it (Which I suppose is almost the same 
thing).
  I don't know if the Imagination fund would care to sponsor poetry and/or
fiction contests.   (Need to ask)
Lori

In a message dated 6/7/09 7:23:59 AM, newmanrl at cox.net writes:


>
> >At 07:17 AM 6/6/2009, you wrote:
> > >We have kicked this nonfiction thing around in the past and basically
> > >it is a good idea. One consideration is, we'll have to have a larger
> > >budget for paying out the prizes. Thus far in the history of the
> > >contest, I believe this next fact is true, the contest has never paid
> > >for itself. We'd have to look at doing some tweaking- like charging
> > >more, advertising more, giving smaller prizes --- any ideas?
> > >
>




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