March 6, 2021
The Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest invites writers to submit stories of 500-3,500 words that feature Rehoboth Beach and fit the year’s theme, which for 2021 is Beach Secrets.
The first-place winner will receive $500, second-place $250, and third-place $100. The top 20-25 stories will appear in the anthology “Beach Secrets,” to be published by Cat & Mouse Press in November.
Now in its ninth year, the contest is sponsored by Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach.
“There are many kinds of secrets at the beach,” said Nancy Sakaduski, owner of Cat & Mouse Press. “There are family secrets, romantic secrets, and secret spots for fishing or beachcombing. There might even be government secrets now. And then there are financial secrets, childhood secrets, criminal secrets, and otherworldly secrets.”