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2012 GENRE CONTESTNovels only1. Mystery/Thriller2. Woman’s Fiction/Romance/Memoir3. Young Adult/Middle School4. Narrative Nonfiction5. Fantasy/Sci-fi/Paranormal6. Historical fiction7. Mainstream/Contemporary$15 per Entry 2nd Entry is $10 3rd Entry is $30Limit 3 EntriesFirst 10 pages DEAD
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Spring 2011 Contest Winners
WINNERS OF CASH AWARDS
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl, Running in Circles, Denver CO #1
Lu Clifton, Slider, Davis IL #2
Eileen Kelley, Just Let Me Go, Hyannis MA 02601 #2
June Faver, Deceptive Practice, #2(Three authors ties for second places)
HONORABLE MENTION
Lena Roach, A Touch of Earth, Lake Charles LA HM
Gay Yellen, The Body Business, Houston TX HM
June Faver, Bad Medicine HM
Pamela Hutchins, Conceding Grace HM
Rebekah Reaves, The Morning After, HM
Minho Lee, First Born, Katy TX HM
Jim/ Stephanie Kroepfl, Kannihut the Dreamer HM
TOP SCORERS IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER
Brenda Hummel, That We May Spare This Hour's Term, Austin TX
T. L. Sherwood, Ellie's Ellephants
Nancy Clements, Between Fence and Forest
Lutricia Clifton, Checkerboard Justice
Linda Shuler, Hidden Shadows, San Antonio TX
Aimee Gunoskey, Bleeding Hearts, Barnesville PA
Amy Oleson, Diminished Capacity, Santa Fe NM
Melissa Rupert, The Detective's Cupcake
A. Hardy Roper, Assasination in Galveston
Lu Clifton, Organic Summer,Davis ILDiane Wilson, Lucy Jingles Goes to Paris
Tina Winograd, State of Mind, Houston
Jack Hutchison, The Hand of Hate
Nick Berman, The Final Girl, Danvers MA
Sherifat Akorede, Tears of a Yoruba Bride
Sara D'Spain, Into the Mystic
Rebecca Nolen, Thyme for Death
Jim/ Stephanie Kroepfl, Who's Got Time for Fate
Linda Shuler, Firepath
Rebekah Reaves, Finding Left Field, Houston TX
Richard Cunningham, Maude Brown's Baby
Diane Wilson, Bible Belt Prep, Okla City OK
Aimee Gunoskey, Words That Bind, Barnesville PA
Jason Libby, Smugglers by Chance, Corpus Christi TX
Janet Mallard, The Collection, Houston TX
Bill Etter, The End and the Beginning
Annie Daylon, Castles in the Sand, Chilliwack, BC
Melissa Rupert, Come for Me, Round Rock TX
Barbara Ray, Secrets, Clovis CA
Barbara Ray, Ancient Evil, Clovis CA
Sandra Bretting, Death on River Road, Houston TX
Marcia F. Bates, Lightning Strikes a Memoir
George Lasher, Hounds of Hell, Rosenberg TX
Brenda Hummel, My Song Ain't Amazin' Grace
John Roane, My Body Lies Over the Tigris
Lisa French, Deadly Discovery, Amarillo TX
Ann Conti Morcos, The Pink Daisy
Lianne Mercer, Chisholm's Marvelous WunderWater, Fredericksburg TX
Pamela Hutchins, Leaving Annalise
E. L. Russell, Cohorts Deadly Awakenings Houston TX
An Duong, Live!, Houston TX
Fall Contest Winners
Novel/Screenplay
By Genre
Grand Prize:
Mystery/Thriller:
Mainstream/Upmarket/Woman’s Fiction
Romance
Narrative Nonfiction
Historical Fiction
Action/Adventure/ Sci-fi
Young Adult (any genre)
Screenplays (any genre)
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GENERAL RULES APPLY TO ALL ENTRIES
1. New rule: Even though you won first place in a previous contest, you may enter this contest with a different novel.
2. You do not have to pay/attend the workshop in order to enter the contest. Membership is not required to enter contests. Your contest entries should be accompanied by our registration form providing your email, telephone #, home address.
3. YOU MAY SEND MORE THAN ONE ENTRY.
4. All entries must be in English.
5. All entries in the Novel & Screenplay Contest must be from unpublished writers who are not under contract to any publisher anywhere or receive royalties for a published novel or screenplay that they did not pay to have printed. Published short story writers may enter new, unpublished novel or screenplay manuscripts. All entries must not have been published anywhere by anyone (royalty paying publisher or self-published) in whole or in part.
6. Do not send the entire manuscript. Send the first 10 pages only.
7. SEND TWO (2) COPIES OF EACH ENTRY. Failure to do so may disqualify your entry.
8. Leave your name off the MS. Use the "header" to install like this:
Title of your novel/Genre (Insert page # on right)
9. Your name should only appear on the cover page. One cover page is sufficient if you detail all your entries on it.
10. Novels require a brief synopsis, no more that one page single-spaced (two copies). Less is better. Give us a two-sentence dramatic statement that explains the direct line of action of your main character. State your genre. The synopsis will be judged. Work on it! Send two copies of the one page single-spaced synopsis.
11. The title counts as part of the scoring. The title should be exciting.
12. All entries must be double-spaced in Times New Roman or Courier 12-point font. Do not use a smaller font in order to crowd more words on the page as our judges are already half blind. The title page does not count as a page.
13. Margins should be at least 1 inch (22-24 lines per page).
14. Pages must be numbered.
15. Chapter should start 1/3 of the way down the page. Failure to do will cost you points.
16. You may resubmit any novel that has not won first place in a previous contest of ours. If you placed 2nd, 3rd, etc., you may re-enter the same novel, but bring it up to snuff.
17. No staples. Paper clips only.
18. We cannot accept e-mail attachments. Our poor old computer is already overloaded.
19. We can accept payment through PayPal on our Entry Blank page on this website.
20. Prize money for any category will be divided among tie winners for that category and prize.
HINT! The most ignored rule in contests was failure to send TWO (2) copies. If you send less than two (2) copies, your entry will be discarded, but NOT your check! Look over your entry very carefully before sealing the envelope.
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Winners of the screenplay-novel contest will be announced at the pre-conference party and all winners will be announced at the workshop and posted to this website.
Scored manuscripts will be returned to Workshop attendees. Other manuscripts will receive score sheets from judges if SASE is provided with entry.
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