Dave is a fiction aquisitions editor at Betahny House Publishers, and he’s sponsoring/initiating a short story contest. This contest has no connection with BHP, and the prizes will be “more symbolic than impressive.” Finally, he’s picked a really hard topic: conversion stories, as in Christian conversion.

Rules (to this point, more may be added)
1. 3000 words or less.
2. I have no definition for what a conversion story is, but we’re talking about some Christian salvific experience. It also needs to be fiction, no autobiography or memoir.
3. Deadline will be Friday, September 30, 5:00pm central time. Earlier is appreciated. You can email your entry. One story per writer. Please send it as an attachment rather than in the text of the email.
4. I haven’t talked with anybody about partnering on this one, but I’ll try to track somebody down. Let me know if you have suggestions or contacts at online journals.
5. There will be prizes for the chosen finalists. They will be more symbolic than impressive. Unless someone wants to give me a grant.
6. But remember, these things get read and a book contract emerged out of the last group.

Some of you aspiring writers may want to rise to the challenge, so to speak. Sounds like fun–if I had the time and talent.