I guess I will be the first one.
I bet it was for political reasons only.
The Stockholm Writers Festival First 5 Pages Prize is closing for submissions on January 31. The entry fee is USD$20.
Submit the first 5 pages of your novel, book or novella for a chance of winning the grand prize of:
- USD$1000,
- A pitch meeting with an agent over Zoom,
- A full developmental edit donated by Reedsy,
- A ticket to our 2022 writers festival in Stockholm, and
- A stay at a boutique hotel in the heart of Stockholm for the duration of the festival.
There are also prizes for genre winners in Fantasy & Sci Fi, Crime & Thriller, Romance, and Historical Fiction. Genre winners will get a pitch meeting with an agent and tickets to the festival in 2022, as well as $100 in Reedsy credits.
The Stockholm Writers Festival (SWF) is proud to celebrate its fifth anniversary with this writing prize -- we have a strong history of supporting writers on their path to published. We love to connect with writers - from those beginning on their journey to those on the brink of being published.
Read more about SWF and the competition guidelines here.
Submit here!
I loved overhearing Nick Valentine shooting the shit with Takahashi while I was banging things together at a Diamond City workbench.
I really hope this means Takahashi is actually legible to other robots or synths, and can be understood beyond what every human hears as nani wo shimasu ka?
I've heard the critic Jeet Heer say that he didn't see the value in giving the Nobel to Philip Roth (before Roth died) because Roth was already so recognized.
Whereas giving the Nobel to Alice Munro and William Faulkner was a vindication of certain styles and genres of literature, and thus an influential and worthy use of the prize.
With that in mind, who would be the American writers most likely or deserving to win? I'm asking about American literature because it's what I'm most familiar with.
Joyce Carol Oates and Don Delillo are getting up there in years, and they both already have won international literary prizes.
Louise Erdrich would be an inspired choice, kind of like how they chose Toni Morrison.
I think George Saunders would be even more unique, but I don't know how well known he is internationally (outside of winning the Booker).
Colson Whitehead could also be a contender, but again, he's already so widely recognized.
Any others you think of?
Contest summary from Winning Writers:
>Recommended free contest awards $1,000 for a poem by a US author that best evokes a connection to place. "Place" may be interpreted by the poet as a place of historical, cultural, political, or personal importance; it may be a literal, imaginary, or metaphorical landscape. Send 1-3 unpublished poems, no length limit, by email. Zocalo Public Square connects people to ideas and to each other in an open, accessible, non-partisan, and broad-minded spirit.
Contest details
- Sponsor: Zocalo Public Square
- Category: Poems
- Submission length: 1-3 poems of any length
- Entry fee: No fee
- Awards: $1,000, publication, and a public reading
Guidelines and submission information (organization's contest page)
This contest has been vetted and approved by Winning Writers
Do you (respectfully, humbly, politely) ask the editors to consider nominating your work? Or do you say nothing?
Here's my specific situation: my short fiction debut is forthcoming (hopefully, unless the printers don't cooperate...) before the end of the year. PEN America sponsors a prize for debut short fiction (the Robert J. Dau Prize), so you are only eligible once. I've sort of assumed that when it comes to Pushcarts, etc., it would be weird to ask for a nomination, since a magazine only has a limited number of nominations they can make and quite a few pieces to choose from. (Am I correct about that?) However, it's possible my story is the only debut being published in the magazine this year.
I usually think that -- as long as one is respectful, polite, and professional -- it doesn't do any harm to ask. But I'm completely new to this, and I don't want to step in it on my first outing. Any advice would be very appreciated!
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Here’s a community-organized BANANO Writers Contest serving both BANANO distribution and giving you the chance to speak up and tell everyone why you’re here. Looking forward to your submissions!
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Hello! We're the Failing Writers Podcast - a podcast for anyone that's ever thought about writing a best-seller... and then gone and put the kettle on instead.
We're having a cheeky little flash fiction competition - details below...
- Organization: The Failing Writers Podcast
- Deadline: 23.59 (BST) on Friday 22nd October 2021
- Category/genre: Halloween themed flash fiction
- Submission length: 666 words (excluding title)
- Entry fee: FREE ENTRY
- Prize/payment: £100 first prize
- Link to official guidelines/rules/entry form: https://www.failingwriterspodcast.com/blog/halloween-flash-fiction-competition/
*Thank you u/StockholmWritersFest for this original post!*
The Stockholm Writers Festival - www.stockholmwritersfestival.com - is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the launch of this writing contest for an unpublished book from an aspiring writer (writers with agents are not eligible to enter). The Stockholm Writers Festival is run by writers for writers and is focused on helping participants find their path to published.
The shortlist for the prize will be judged by our 2022 festival faculty. Past faculty members have included the Somerset Maugham Award winner Sarah Waters and NaNoWriMo's Grant Faulkner, amongst others.
The First 5 Pages prize is for the first five pages of an unpublished book. The entry fee is $20.
Submit the first 5 pages for a chance of winning the Grand Prize of:
- USD$1000,
- A pitch meeting with an agent over Zoom,
- A full developmental edit donated by Reedsy,
- A ticket to our 2022 writers festival in Stockholm, and
- A stay at a boutique hotel in the heart of Stockholm for the duration of the festival.
There are also prizes for genre winners in Fantasy & Sci Fi, Crime & Thriller, Romance, and Historical Fiction. Genre winners will get a pitch meeting with an agent, $100 in Reedsy credit, and tickets to the festival in 2022.
You can read more about the prize on our website here and you can submit your entry at Submittable here.
Contest summary from Winning Writers:
>Recommended free contest awards $1,000 for a poem by a US author that best evokes a connection to place. "Place" may be interpreted by the poet as a place of historical, cultural, political, or personal importance; it may be a literal, imaginary, or metaphorical landscape. Send 1-3 unpublished poems, no length limit, by email. Zocalo Public Square connects people to ideas and to each other in an open, accessible, non-partisan, and broad-minded spirit.
Contest details
- Sponsor: Zocalo Public Square
- Category: Poems
- Submission length: 1-3 poems of any length
- Entry fee: No fee
- Awards: $1,000, publication, and a public reading
Guidelines and submission information (organization's contest page)
This contest has been vetted and approved by Winning Writers
