Dear aspiring authors all . . . I just wanted to post a reminder for those of you who are planning to submit stories for the Five Enchanted Roses creative writing contest.

YOUR SUBMISSION FORMS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 16.

This is different from last year, when your forms simply had to be postmarked by Dec. 31st. We want to receive all of the submissions themselves no later than the 31st, which means the forms need to be in much sooner.

So please, please, please don't forget! I would hate for your story to be disqualified because you missed this deadline. It is one month from today.

If you need to, you can recheck all the rules by clicking here.

Looking forward to reading those submissions! Best of luck with your writing.