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There is a ongoing contest for all you aspiring mystery story writers.

The Spring 2012 Young Adult Showcase Mystery Times Ten 2012 seeks new mystery short stories that are targeted for the YA audience.Theme: Mystery – be it murder, cozy, paranormal, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, police procedural, suspense, thriller, or amateur detective.

The competition is open to all writers in English.

Submissions will be accepted from October 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011.

Send entries to: Submissions@buddhapussink.com

Get all the full contest details and rules at this webpage.

Race and win some great and amazing prizes.

Ford Racing’s great 110th anniversary celebration offers some splendid prizes including a trip to the 2012 Daytona 500 Weekend!

First Prize: The randomly selected 110 First Prize winners will win one Ford Racing 110th Anniversary Commemorative Coin, Limited Edition.

Grand Prize: The randomly selected five Grand Prize Winners will win a VIP Ford Racing Experience for themselves and one guest. Winner will have the option of selecting one of the following listed race weekends for their VIP Experience:
*NASCAR - Daytona 500 Race Weekend, Daytona, FL: February 2012 (specific dates to be released)
*NHRA - Pomona, CA: February 2012 (specific dates to be released)
*Grand-Am - Homestead, FL: March 2012 (specific dates to be released)
*Rally America - X Games: July 2012 (specific dates and location to be released)

The prize package for the Ford Racing VIP Experience will include:
*Round-trip air economy class transportation
*Hotel accommodations [one room, standard, double occupancy]
*Two grandstand tickets to the race series of choice for the days where at-track activity is applicable
*Ground transportation to/from hotel and track, including round-trip airport transfer
*One $200 Visa Gift Card for additional meals or activities
*Two Ford Racing apparel gift packages
*One VIP driver meet & greet

This contest ends December 31st, 2011. Get all the contest details and enter at this website.

Mommies will love this!

See Kai Run is offering a free pair of shoes of their choosing! Browse their selection and let the contest holders know what you think. To enter, sign up for their newsletter or simply “like” them on Facebook.

To get additional entries, you can:
1) Post the contest on your Facebook wall.
2) Subscribe to Does Mommy Love It Blog? Then leave a comment there.
3) Twitter about the contest and leave them a hyperlink to the tweet.
4) Join their Facebook fan page.

This contest ends November 30, 2011 Midnight EST. Click here for the full contest details!

A $5,000 gift card could be yours, courtesy of Pottery Barn.

Simply enter your email address on their contest page and come back every day through November 30th, 2011 for more chances to win.

It's that simple!

The contest ends November 30th, 2011.

Check out the full contest details and enter at their original contest page.

It's time for some female power.

Sorry guys, this contest is to encourage women to show off their Grilling/BBQ’ing prowess.

To enter, submit your original recipe, along with a short bio of yourself to tell them about your grilling styles, BBQ recipes, Grilling tips and how to’s.

You can submit any number of recipes as long as they are done on a grill/BBQ. The recipe can be submitted using their online recipe submission form, or you can email the recipe to pattifisher@datenightdoins.com.

The contest will run until November 30th, 2011, so you have some time to work on your recipes.

Check out the full contest details at their original contest post here.

Are you creative? Do you want to win some fab prizes?

If your answers to the above are YES, go design a Logo for OneLife4 Life and you could win up to $1,000 for yourself.

There are three prizes are up for grabs – 1st Place $1,000, 2nd Place $500, and 3rd Place $250.

Judging will be done by a combination of your votes and their judging panel.

Contest ends November 30, 2011.

Check out the full contest details at their original contest post here.

Just a quick shout out.

National Geographic is holding a photo contest where you can win $2,500 for a first prize in each category and a feature in the National Geographic magazine. One Grand Prize winner will receive, in addition to the First Place prize, US$7,500 and a trip to the District of Columbia, USA from Jan. 10 to Jan. 13, 2012 to participate in the National Geographic Photography Seminar.

So start submitting your amazing photos today.

Check out the full contest details at their original contest page here.

Here's a sweet and easy-to-enter contest.

Webb IP Law Group is looking to expand their Facebook fan base by holding a contest with a sweet prize.

That is nothing less than a brand new iPad 2!

Wow! To enter, just go to their Facebook page, "like" them and leave your email for contact purposes if you are the lucky winner.

Check out the full contest details at this contest page.

Always dreamt about staying in a posh resort in Las Vegas?

How does free sound?

Make your dream a reality by joining this contest.

To enter the contest, just join TakeDownCon Group on Facebook or some other social networking site as stated on the contest page.

• Write something unique about TakeDownCon (20 words or less)
• Get your friends to Like it
• Top 3 Posts with the most “Likes” (by October 31st, 2011 – 5:00 PM GMT) WINS!

Here are the tantalizing prize!

You can enter in many other ways too on different kinds of social media.

Check out the full contest details at this link.

Love your cat at home? Show your love by winning a special vacation (with a special cat care package) to Canyon Ranch Spa in Arizona or Massachusetts.

All you need to do is to take a simple quiz.

One Grand Prize: a four-day vacation for two persons to the Canyon Ranch spa resort located in Arizona or Massachusetts, location to be selected by the winner. Prize consists of roundtrip economy class air transportation for two; 4-nights accommodations at the Canyon Ranch with all services and meals included. ARV $15,382. In addition, the grand prize winner will also receive the following cat items: one stainless steel cat drinking fountain, one FURminator Deshedding Tool), one window cat perch, one Cat Scratching Platform and one automatic Litter Maid self-cleaning litter box.

(11) First Prize: $250 Spafinder.com, Drinkwell Fountain, FURminator deShedding Tool, and All-in-One Scratcher (ARV $370).

(1,100) Second Prize: a coupon good for one free bag of Hill’s Science Diet Cat Age-Defying dry cat food (ARV $11.50).

Drawing Date will be on or about January 21st, 2012.

Rules: www.hillspet.com/defyage/terms-and-conditions.html