User blog comment:Perturbed Maverick/Competition?/@comment-26475800-20160215013754

It depends on how confidant you are in your writing. If you think your stories are up to snuff you can try your hand a different contests, which, if you place, is great to boost your career as a writer. Some of the ones I know off the top of my head are Writers of the Future, which is a SciFi competition held quarterly. Also, check in with Writers Digest, they are always having competitions, or are promoting some other site which is having a contest. Some of them you will have to pay for, but others are free. And if you place you can win up to 5k, at least that was the highest I've seen.

Good luck.