Writing Contests, Writing Projects, & Writer Recognition
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Winner Receives a $500 Publishing ContractTheNextBigWriter has partnered with costumealibi.com to bring you two great contests. The first is a Halloween Short Story Contest. The short story should be between 2,500 and 5,000 words with a Halloween theme. There are no genre restrictions. Anything goes. We are looking for the most engaging, can't-put-it-down story to feature on the costumealibi.com Halloween Stories page. Deadline: 11:59 PM ET on October 5, 2010 Prize: $500 Publishing Contract How to Submit Your Halloween Entry See all Halloween Entries Competition, Rules, and Regulations
Winner Receives a $100 Publishing ContractTheNextBigWriter has partnered with costumealibi.com to bring you two great contests. The second contest is a costume-oriented flash fiction piece. The flash fiction piece should have a costume theme and doesn't necessarily have to be about Halloween. It should be a humorous story between 500 and 1,000 words. Judging criteria -- The laugh-out-loudest story wins. Deadline: 11:59 PM ET on October 5, 2010 Prize: $100 Publishing Contract How to Submit Your Costume Flash Entry Competition, Rules, and Regulations Previous Writing Competitions
1st Place Winner Receives $500 and a $2,500 Publishing Package from CreateSpace.The winners of the 2010 Strongest Start Novel Competition are: Main Competition If you missed this year's competition or didn't win, keep working on those opening chapters. The competition will be back next year. Receive notices of the competition by joining our competition email alert list.
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What is the Strongest Start Novel Competition? It is the only live, online novel writing competition for unfinished books and novels. That means you can enter with a draft or unfinished manuscript and that you will receive feedback on your submission as the competition progresses. Feedback that you can use to improve you submission before the competition deaadline. The competition is meant to motivate writers to finish their books and to edit what they have written. And of course, to reward the writers who have done a fantastic job of honing their three starting chapters to page turning perfection Stay in the Know. The 2010 competition is over, but leave us your email and receive advanced news on the 2011 Strongest Start Novel Competition. In 2010, the Strongest Start Novel Competition offered:
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The winning entry will receive a $100 publishing contact and will be featured in front of hundreds of thousands of readers.Deadline: 11:59 PM ET on March 1, 2010Have a good idea for a flash story? Or maybe you've already written one. Post it as part of the TheNextBigWriter's 2010 Flash Writing Contest. If we like it enough, you'll receive $100 and be featured on the homepage of Booksie.com, a site that receives 500,000 reader visits per month. See all 2010 flash entries. Competition, Rules, and Regulations . Join A Project to Create the Internet's First Workshop - Based Novel - The CloudWinning entries receive a publishing contact for inclusion in the published novel.Deadline: 11:59 PM ET on January 21, 2010 TheNextBigWriter in conjunction with Odin Roark of iPOV BOOKS present the first workshop-built-novel. The novel will be comprised of individual chapters/short stories written by different writers from TheNextBigWriter around a central theme and premise. The CloudThe novel project called THE CLOUD is a concept created by Odin Roark based on a premise that challenges religion, commerce, and science, as well as general behavior in the 21st century. The plot involves reactions to a dark gray cloud that takes residence over the skies of Las Vegas in August of 2013 and is still there at the book’s conclusion in January 2014. The genre of this book is literary. Learn more about The Cloud Project. Awards: The writers whose stories are selected as winners will receive a Publishing Contract to have their story published as part of the The Cloud Anthology. 50% of the net proceeds will be equally shared by the estimated 15 to 20 authors. 50% of the remaining net proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the formation of a charity fund developed by Odin Roark that will provide computers for children in developing countries. Submit Your Entry to The Cloud See all The Cloud entries. Competition, Rules, and Regulations Create the Most Horrible Wedding That's Out of This WorldThe theme of this contest is the wedding that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But as a twist, the story must be set in a science fiction or fantasy setting. Other than that, use your imagination and have fun. We're looking for the most creative, most entertaining story. One that melds a disasterous wedding with a credible science fiction and fantasy setting. Key elements that we'll be looking for include: Well conceived characters Credible science fiction and fantasy settings A creative and original story A well written story. The story should be a minimum of 1,000 words but under 3,500 words. Prize: $100. Contest submission deadline: August 31, 2009. Writing contest rules and details |See all entries . Can You Write a Chaiku that Rocks?Submit a Chaiku with a nature theme. Writer about plants, trees, weather, ocean, or anything else in the natural world that inspires your muse. We will be judging the Chaikus on their ability to tell a story or paint a scene within the constraints of the Chaiku format. So what is a Chaiku? Chaiku is a neologism derived from the first two letters of Chinese
and the last four of HAIKU. It refers to the notion that Chinese poetic
meter can play the same role as the meter of haiku in the composition
of verse in English. Four words of one syllable per line Prize: $50. Contest submission deadline: August 15, 2009. Writing contest rules and details |See all entries . A Short Story Contest with Cash, Publishing, and FeedbackMezzo Magazine has asked TheNextBigWriter to help it find a special story to publish in their September 2009 debut issue. The challenge of this competition is to create a short story that has the right ingredients to be featured in Mezzo Magazine's September issue. So what is Mezzo Magazine looking for? In their words: "The stories we publish are intelligent and creative but with no pretence of intellectual aspirations. We want to enjoy the read, not study the text. We appreciate edgy and irreverent writing that makes us see, hear and be in the story. Our editors use their judgment, and review the following elements to score your submission. Opening lines - Does the beginning make you want to read more? Plot - is there a continuous thread of suspense? Setting - Are the sensory details effective? Voice and Tone - Is the narrative voice consistent and unobtrusive? Conflict - Are the stakes and the conflicts surrounding them clear? Dialogue - Is the dialogue natural sounding? Is it easy to read? Resolutions - Does the story have a satisfying ending?" The subject is your choice, but no stories with excessive gore, violence, profanity, hate or discrimination. The story should be a minimum of 1,000 words but under 3,500 words. Prize: $200 and publication in Mezzo Magazine's debut September 2009 issue. Contest submission deadline: June 30, 2009. Writing contest rules and details |See all entries | Visit Mezzo Magaine . 1st Place Winner Receives $500 and a $2,400 Publishing Package from BookSurge.June 18 , 2009: Contest winners announced. Congratulations to this year's winners. They are: First Place:
- Sensing Passion: Travels of a Fifty-Five Year Old Divorcee by Christy Cumberlander Walker As stated on the Strongest Start Novel Page, the winner will receive $500 cash and a full publishing package from BookSurge valued at $2,400. What is the Strongest Start Novel Competition? It is the only live, online novel writing competition for unfinished books and novels. That means you can enter with a draft or unfinished manuscript and that you will receive feedback on your submission as the competition progresses. Feedback that you can use to improve you submission before the competition deaadline. The competition is meant to motivate writers to finish their books and to edit what they have written. And of course, to reward the writers who have done a fantastic job of honing their three starting chapters to page turning perfection Stay in the Know. The 2009 competition is over, but leave us your email and receive advanced news on the 2010 Strongest Start Novel Competition. In 2009, the Strongest Start Novel Competition offered: Feedback on your writing to help you prepare your novel for publication.The opportunity to get noticed and build a fan-base. The perfect environment to meet other writers, share tricks, and join the most advanced writing workshop on the planet. . |
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