No name or address on the second and third copies. First place winners will be announced and published in The Great Blue Beacon. Entries will not be returned. All checks must be made payable to Andy Byers. Editor Andy Byers published the premiere issue in October 1996 for a few subscribers in NJ, and the list of readers has grown rapidly and steadily since that small beginning.
Most issues contains listings of current prose and poetry contests.
Publications and markets of interest to all writers are reviewed. Writing-related cartoons and pithy quotations add humor and insight to each issue. Short-short story fiction, essay and poetry contests are sponsored periodically. Winning entries are published in the newsletter. I appreciate your help in generating interest in this upcoming anthology.