Playboy's College Fiction Contest
October, 1991
This is the sixth year of Playboy's College Fiction Contest, which, by this time, looks as if it's going to be around for a while. It's the only American short-story competition held by a national magazine that's aimed at students of all ages. Other contests farm stories out, usually to assistants or even free-lancers, for first readings, which can take as long as several months. In our more eccentrically devised system, a group of two or three Playboy editors lock themselves into a hotel room d...