Tweet the Meat News. Back to normal... Upcoming Themes

Hey Tweet the Meaters....

After a few hectic weeks out in the big, bad real world, things are finally settling down. Halloween is over, winter is settling in (as I type this, it's 90 degrees outside my window), and the holiday season approaches fast.



Once again we'd like to thank all the judges, sponsors, and entrants in our Annual contest. Over the next few days we hope to have the official blog all updated with the bios from the last couple weeks. When it gets too busy, it's always the last thing to be updated as the Twitter stream itself is always the first priority.

Some of the upcoming themes:

11-7 Theme: Winter

11-14 Theme: Gore

11-21 Theme: Holidays

What? You wanted more prizes?! We got more prizes!

The Prizes:

First Place: $20

+ A copy of Issue #1 of Shock Totem autographed by Mercedes Yardley and Kurt Newton

+ A physical copy of Shimmerzine's Clockwork Jungle Book Special Issue


Second Place: $5

Third through Sixth Place: $2

The Tweet the Meat First Annual Halloween Jerky Tweet Contest

The Rules:

•One entry per person.
•Anyone may enter.
•140 characters or less.
•Must not be previously published, even on your own Twitter stream
•The theme is open.
•Open: Saturday 10/17
•Close: 11:59 PM Saturday 10/24 Pacific Time
• Send entries to Tweetthemeat@gmail.com subject: Contest Entry
• Include a Twitter-length bio like you would with a normal submission.
•Entry constitutes acceptance of Tweet the Meat's guidelines

The Prizes:

First Place: $20

+ A copy of Issue #1 of Shock Totem autographed by Mercedes Yardley and Kurt Newton

+ A physical copy of Shimmerzine's Clockwork Jungle Book Special Issue


Second Place: $5

Third through Sixth Place: $2

The Judging:

Judges will be announced after the submission period is over. The regular Tweet the Meat editors will choose a batch of their favorites and will send these on, stripped of bios, to the judges who will rank their top 6. From these rankings, the winners will be determined.

Winners will NOT be notified in advance.

The winners will be announced by the publication of their entry on Tweet the Meat

Monday, October 26th - 6th Place will publish
Tuesday, October 27th - 5th Place will publish
Wednesday, October 28th - 4th Place will publish
Thursday, October 29th - 3rd Place will publish
Friday, October 30th - 2nd Place will publish
Saturday, October 31st - The Grand Prize Winner will publish


Prizes will be officially awarded the first week of November. Cash prizes will be awarded via Paypal. If you don't have Paypal, an Amazon.com gift certificate will be purchase on your behalf.

Tweet the Meat News: A special announcement

We're going to have a couple changes in the coming weeks, just for the month of October.

First off, the open-themed submission period coming up this weekend 10/3 will remain open all week until 10/9. Instead of 5 entries, you are limited to 10 entries.

We are going to accept double the amount of stories that week.

We are doing this because there will be no submission period the weekend of 10/24.

And we are doing that because Our 10/17 submission window will be a special week.

The theme will be open. You will be limited to one entry a person.

And there will be prizes. Oh yes, there will be prizes.

More details coming soon.


If you would like to be a contest sponsor by donating a prize (Your book, magazine, membership, beef jerky, etc., or money... sweet, sweet money...) please email us at tweetthemeat(at)gmail.com with 'sponsor' in the subject line. All sponsors will be acknowledged all week long in a special banner on the Twitter page.



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Tweet the Meat Author: HD Grogan

HD Grogan (@HDGrogan) is sometimes disturbed by the ideas she wakes up with.

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Tweet the Meat Author: Deborah Walker

Deborah Walker thinks: least said, soonest mended.

Deborah's Meat Tweets:
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Tweet the Meat Author: Matt Albertson

Matt Albertson is a Seattle geek who works as a public radio fundraiser by day and aspiring writer by night. He produces the Building Character podcast, exploring people’s life experiences and the meanings they make of them. More information about can be found at http://MattAlbertson.com. Follow him on twitter @MattAlbertson.

Matt's Meat Tweets:

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