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Democracy Chronicles

Seeking Submissions for Seven Dictators Competition

by Adrian Tawfik - July 10, 2014

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Ending Jan 1 the Seven Dictators Competition is free

Ending Jan 1, the Seven Dictators Competition is free to enter for playwrights worldwide 

Time to Write!

by Mahmoud Mansi with Adrian Tawfik

Submissions for our competition are open – up until January 1st, 2015 – so start writing soon! Summer is a great time to write! See the competition guidelines for more information.

Competition is Open to Individual Writers, Individual Acting-Teams, Acting-Teams in Schools, Universities & Theaters

Artists have begun to contact us to get involved after we sent our guidelines out to the public. We want to say thanks and get the competition fired up! Thanks as well to Tiffany Williams who posted on her popular theater blog and Jonathan Dorf of LA Playwrights too. Other announcements were posted at the Dramatists Guild, NYC Playwrights, Drama Groups, and in the Insights for Playwrights newsletter. Thanks to everyone who has been involved!

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About the Organizers:

The Forgotten Writers Foundation: 

Based in the ancient city of Alexandria on Egypt’s Nile River, the Forgotten Writers Foundation discusses global, social and humane causes through art. It releases story competitions on topics that were never tackled before through literature, topics that are challenging for writers, interesting and new for readers. See Forgotten Writer’s 2012/2013 play-writing competition results for “Women’s Domination” and the 2011/2012 competition results book publication that collected the submitted plays about ” The Resurrection of Ancient Egypt”.

Democracy Chronicles:

See our About Us page for information on our democracy advocacy and also take a look at our team of contributors at our Author Central. Also, we are working on a documentary that needs support from our readers. Read the latest about “The Design of a Broken System” documentary at “Letter From the Design of a Broken System Director” by John Amaruso. 

 

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About Adrian Tawfik

Democracy Chronicles has been run by Founder and Editor-in-Chief Adrian Tawfik since 2011. He received a B.A. from New School University and is based in New York City where he built DC from the ground up. See Adrian's Opinion Column for a sampling of Adrian's personal views and browse his hundreds of original political memes. Also take a look at the rest of our international team of authors.

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