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A bogus contest has been advertised on craigslist and elsewhere which is supposedly being run by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. SFWA has nothing to do with it, and it has all the earmarks of fraud. The notices that we have found are located at:http://job.flixer.com/node/5364
http://job.flixer.com/node/5244
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wrg/718658721.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wrg/720219508.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wrg/718286153.html
Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware has blogged about this contest at http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2008/06/victoria-strauss-fake-contest-alert.html
In response to a cease and desist letter, this person has apologized and says that the posts will be removed from craigslist but he/she doesn't know how to remove them from flixer. He/she claims that he will never do it again. SFWA and Writer Beware are monitoring the situation.
Again, SFWA never runs writing contests of this sort, and is not associated with this contest in any way. If you find any other instances of this solicitation, please contact me at president@sfwa.org
Michael Capobianco
President, SFWA
Posted June 15, 2008; see article at: http://www.sfwa.org/news//2008/boguswritingcontest.htm
[This message has been edited by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (edited June 16, 2008).]