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The 2007 History Writers’ Contest – Entry Rules  
Brandon Museum Inc. (Daly House Museum) is accepting non-fiction entries for the 2007 History Writers’ Contest. The contest deadline is Oct 31, 2007.  
 
Stories and essays entered must be in English, unpublished, not accepted elsewhere for publication and must be 2,000 words or more in length. They must also relate to the history of the city or the surrounding area.  
 
Writers must include two (2) double-spaced copies of their story, one with no identification, and the other with full identification (name, address, city/town, postal code, phone number, and e-mail). Grand Prize is a limited edition Brandon Luxury Table Lamp. Second prize is a complete nine issue set of EcoOdessy’s Voices of Experience, and third prize a copy of G.F. Baker’s Brandon a City. All winners (including those receiving an honorable mention) will be published in the Museum’s planned anthology, and receive a complimentary copy of that anthology, along with a year's subscription to our newsletter, The Daly News.  
 
The fee is $5 per entry - entries outside of Canada must be accompanied by U.S. funds - made payable to "Brandon Museum, Inc:" Museum members are eligible for one free entry.  
 
Writers may enter as many submissions as they wish but each entry must follow the above guidelines and be accompanied by a $5 fee. Entries should be postmarked no later than May 31, 2007 and mailed to or dropped off at: The Daly House Museum, 122 18th Street, Brandon, MB R7A 5A4.  
 
A panel of judges will be chosen from the community. The Museum cannot respond to or return individual entries unless accompanied by a SASE. For more information, please call Daly House at (204)727-1722.  
 
Note: This event is posted as a fund raiser, but at $5 per entry it will not raise many funds. What it will do is give the general public a chance to record a part of Brandon's History as they remember it and to add to the archival collection of Brandon.