ChiZine Publications (CZP) is running a contest in honor of Valentine’s Day. In order to enter, you’ll have to “match CZP’s first thirteen titles to holidays. As an example, the theme of love—twisted, painful, and unnatural as it may be—present throughout the stories of Monstrous Affections make it a natural match with Valentine’s Day.”
The grand prize winner will receive either a CZP trade paperback or a short story critique by CZP Assistant Editor Helen Marshall. Other prizes include e-books.
The deadline is 28 February, but Co-Publisher Brett Alexander Savory doesn’t really expect anyone to get them all “right”, so he’s planning second and third rounds, just in case. To win on the first round, someone will need to correctly match eleven of the thirteen titles.
“This is about having some fun,” said Savory. “Some of the matches we’ve come up with are pretty funny. And if someone can make us laugh with their submission, they should get something. And you don’t need to have read all the books and clues to the matches might be in the book’s title, the titles of short stories within it, the cover art or its description on the website.”
Full contest details are available on this page.