Projects
This is a cross-platform publishing venture that Heliotrope initiated in 2010.
On one hand it's an online creative nonfiction writing contest, an open call for true stories about difficult, inappropriate bosses. On the other hand, it's a collaboration between the random, crowd-sourced participants of this contest, a panel of writers and editors and an illustrator. The end product is not only a book, but also a growing online community.
The contest began on February 6, 2010 and will close on May 2, 2010.
Winners who have garnered the highest number of votes each week have been awarded a $200 prize. After the contest closes, panelists will select higher paying First, Second and Third Prize stories that will be illustrated, as well as a sampling of stories that will be published.
Here's what the winner of our first weekly prize wrote about her experience with Jobs of the Damned.