To research this book, I entered no less than 80 writing contests myself. My entries won prizes or were short-listed 29 times. That’s better than a one-in-three success rate.

(Would you believe that, three years after the event,  I received a  Commended  Certificate for an entry in a  poetry  contest. So make that  "short-listed 30  times!")

“I could easily have achieved a one-in-two success rate, if I had only entered the RIGHT contests,” I remarked in an interview, when the book was first published. “I entered some contests merely to prove my theories or simply to obtain Judges’ Reports.” 

Originally published in 2002, this book was re-issued with minor up-dates in 2003. A revised third edition was published in March, 2004.

This present completely revised, expanded and enlarged fourth edition was generally released in May, 2009. Some stores, including Amazon, have copies on sale for only $11.25. The normal retail mark-up for this edition is $12.50 -- and that too  is considerably less than the cover price when the book was first published back in 2002.

This New Edition of Write Ways to WIN WRITING CONTESTS: How To Enter the Winners' Circle for Prose and Poetry Awards not only offers more pages, more information and more up-to-date help -- but at a more pleasing price!