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We Aren’t So Grown Up Here at Brevity, But Perhaps You Are?

In Call for Submissions on June 17, 2009 at 10:30 am

REAL SIMPLE’s annual Life Lessons Essay Contest

Submit  a very brief essay on the topic:

When did you first realize that you had become a grown-up?

The winning essay is scheduled to appear in the April 2010 issue of REAL SIMPLE magazine.  Winner will receive a $3,000 prize; rountrip tickets for two to New York City, hotel accommodations for two nights, and tickets to a Broadway play; and lunch with REAL SIMPLE editors.

Deadline:  Sept. 7, 2009.  For complete contest rules,

realsimple.com/lifelessonscontest.

  1. I have had my essay ready for a month but my husband did not get it postmarked in time and the 7th. is Labor Day. We have been in an automobile accidint (we were not cited).next time I will not depend on him again. So I am begging you to let submit my begging you to let me submit my essay on this eighth day of september. You will not regret it.

    Sincerely,
    Twila R. Nash