Halloween Writing Contest

It’s going to be a mad, merry, macabre October in Montgomery County!

Your friends at Montgomery County’s favorite daily are rolling out two – and possibly more – Halloween-themed contests that are filled with more fun and delight than a bulging trick-or-treat bag!

It starts with a good story and wraps up with spooky houses (be sure to read all the way to the end to find out about the houses).

Hey, everyone loves a good ghost story, right? Well, how about sharing yours with The Paper of Montgomery County and all our readers?

We’re having our fun and frivolous Halloween Writing Contest and the entries are being accepted now.

Here’s how it works.

• Write your Halloween-themed story and send it to us.
• Don’t exceed 750 words
• Connect your story to Crawfordsville and / or Montgomery County somehow.
• The writing must be your own and original. You must own the rights to it and sign a release stating as such and giving us permission to publish it.
• Get it to us by noon, Sept. 29.

Pretty simple.

Four winners will be selected and those stories will be published, along with the author’s name and photo, in October. If the judges select any stories as honorable mentions, those will be published on our web site.

We’d suggest dusting off the cobwebs – unless cobwebs, creaky stairs and paintings with moving eyeballs are appropriate to your story – and getting busy. You know the first rule of writing, right? Butt in chair! So get yourself situated in front of a keyboard and let those fingers fly!

Tell us a ghost story, a spooky tale, perhaps a fiction piece about the ghost of Gen. Lew or Henry Lane, or perhaps a tale spun up from one of the pre-consolidation high schools. That’s the great thing – it’s a Halloween writing contest, so the who, what, where, and when are all up to you!

How do you enter? Simply e-mail your story to [email protected] or drop it off at our beautiful downtown Crawfordsville office (127 E. Main). If you e-mail, please copy and paste the story in the body of the e-mail and not as an attachment.

But wait, that’s not all!

We’re also looking for Montgomery County’s best Halloween-themed house. It seems like more and more people are going all out for the spookiest of holidays. Well, we’d like to see them!

All you have to do is send us a picture of your house, include the address and your contact info and we’ll share some of those with our readers in The Paper and online.