"Murder at the Mustard Museum" - A Mystery Writing Contest -
It's the ultimate condiment whodunit and it's your chance to win $5,000 in the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum's Mustard Mystery Contest. This is the contest's home page and within a few weeks you can find all the details of this exciting new contest.
The contest will be open to all U.S. citizens with a special "Young Writers" division for aspiring novelists of high school age and under. All you have to do is read Chapter One of Murder at the Mustard Museum (which will appear here on October 1, 2005) and write the best Chapter Two plus a short summary of how it all turns it.
Complete rules are posted here for downloading . . . in plenty of time for all you would-be Agatha Mustards to sharpen your pencils, pour the tea, and get your creative juices flowing.
There is no entry fee, only a few hours of your best work. No purchase is necessary, although no one will mind if you show your appreciation by buying something from the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum.
So was it Colonel M----- in the lavatory with a plunger?
Dateline August 8, 2006th
The Contest is over and the Wieners are . . . .
Grand Prize ($5,000) - Richard Sweitzer (Waupaca, WI)
Young Writers Division ($250) - Ethan Bartlett (Mount Horeb, WI)
*Click here to see the top 10 Honorable Mentions in each category
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Look for the full novel "Murder at the Mustard Museum" some time in 2007.
In the meantime, get ready for the next mustard writing contest coming in our new catalog in late October. It will be a romance novel, entitled "Seeds of Passion." |
L to R, Ethan Bartlett, Barry Levenson, Richard Sweitzer
