On the Breakfast in Bridgetown show, we’re all about breakfast and writing. So it makes sense that our second contest would be … writing about breakfast!

Here’s the deal: We want to hear your best Portland breakfast story. That might not be the best meal you ever ate, or even the worst, but it will be a good story.

Give us up to 500 words, and we’ll judge it on two categories: how good is the story, and how good is the writing? The judges for this contest are:

• Paul Gerald, author and publisher of Breakfast in Bridgetown: The Definitive Guide to Portland’s Favorite Meal, and the host of the PDX.FM radio show of the same name.
• Mindie Kniss, frequent guest on the show and organizer of the PDX Breakfast Club on Meetup.com. She’s an editor at two lit magazines and an integrative life coach; see KnissCoaching.com.
• A Judge to be Named Later.

We’ll be taking submissions until the end of the day on Friday, January 29th, and we’ll announce the winner during the show on Friday, February 5th.

And what does the winner get? The winning submission will be included in the second edition of Paul’s book – with credit and everything! We’ll even throw in two signed copies of the book when it comes out … sometime.

Mindie and I discussed this contest towards the end of Podcast #10 on January 8.

Alright, all you breakfast-eating literary types – go to it! Email submissions to paul@baconandeggspress.com by Friday, January 29th, 2010.