What it feels like for a litmag contest manager

(Because secretly, you’d love to know what it feels like, wouldn’t you?)

Picture it: The deadline for your contest approaches, and the folks out there are writing as fast as they can:

Inevitably, the deadline passes—and maybe some people missed it.

Or maybe the post office was closed right when someone got there to mail their entry:

So you think, “What if we extend the deadline?”

And the typing continues.

Then the deadline extension passes and all the entries are in. You feel like this:

You send them all out for the first round of reading and the waiting starts all over again:

The deadline for PRISM international‘s creative non-fiction contest is December 5. That’s tomorrow! Hurry up and enter!