I was looking at the Pathfinder Fiction Contest page, and it mentions "Stories will be between 3000-4000 words using existing canon concerning the Age of Destiny -3470 AR to 1 AR." but further on it says "You can enter the contest by submitting one (1) short story based on Paizo’s Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Campaign Setting, set in the world of Golarion."
I don't know what to make of this, most of the campaign settings are almost 5000 years later.
Here is the link to the contest page: http://pathfinderchronicler.net/contest-details/
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Are you asking for places to find information? If so, the Pathfinderwiki has this list of various articles. You could also try contacting zuxius@pathfinderchronicler.net, and ask him.
Since there isn't much detailed canon information about that era, and probably won't be, this is a good opportunity for writers to really indulge their imaginations.
I've got the setting and premise for my story... now if I can only figure out a plot. :-/
I'm looking forward to reading all of your stories (as a guest judge again this year). :)
My advice would be to examine the expanded timeline in the Inner Sea World Guide for the Age of Destiny and look at all the happenings which were going on from -3470 AR to 1 AR. There were a lot of ancient civilizations undergoing a lot of change during that time, so there should be no shortage of material from which to draw inspiration.
I see now. Time to get the Inner Sea World Guide and start researching the Age of Destiny then!
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Another useful aid would be PathfinderWiki's Timeline feature. The Inner Sea World Guide covers a bunch, but it doesn't contain information on Tian-Xia (which the wiki does).
I actually considered heading to TIan-Xia for mine, because they had some good story seeds just laying around. (The angels leave Amanandar, A volcano eruption convinces people it's a second Age of Darkness, and a few others.)
