Call for Submissions: "FieldReport"

This market lead comes from one of the editors of the Cup of Comfort series, who notes "I like the concept, it appears to be legit, there seems to be no risk or cost to writers ..."

It's posted here assuming it's legitimacy, but as always when the IWW Blog lists markets or calls for submissions, it's caveat emptor ...

a new web site that will award significant cash prizes for great pieces of personal writing. I’m contacting you because the site is now going into an invitation-only beta launch with $40,000 to be awarded on July 1. We don’t expect the beta period to have a very large attendance, so the odds are high that people who submit their stories now will win. I’m hoping you will either submit a story or spread the word to friends who might be interested in posting.

The site is called FieldReport, and the contest is for true-life storytelling (2,500 words or less). It is judged through a member ranking system that is new on the Internet; in order to post a story participants must become judges in the competition. This way the stories are ranked by quality, not popularity. The top prize during the beta period is $20,000 for the best overall submission, plus 17 prizes of $1,000 to $2,000 each in categories from Love + Hate to Travel + Nature and everything in between. For your submission to have the best chance in the contest, you probably need to submit within a couple of weeks.

If you think you might be interested, go to FieldReport and explore the site. The beta password is “truelife”. Let me know if you have any feedback about the site; I would love to hear what you think. Also, kindly send this invitation on, but please don't circulate it outside the writers' community.