Children's book writing contest

          Novel writing contest.

          THE 2024 CONTEST RESULTS ARE IN!

          Entries for the $1000 for 1000 Words contest will be accepted from December 1, 2024 through February 1, 2025.

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          Five Hopes for the Writers

          Tom Newkirk, Professor Emeritus of English, University of New Hampshire and our 2023 Guest Judge, offered these suggestions at our 2023 awards ceremony:

          1. Keep writing.

            1,000 words competition

            Gather a group of friends or attend a writing camp.

          2. Read fiction. Get inspiration, discover strategies, and study the use of dialogue. Find authors you like. (Stravinsky once said, “I steal from Mozart because I know Mozart.”) Read!
          3. Find other writers to share work with—online or in person.

            Learn to be a good responder. Be alert to what’s working. Be specific: dialogue, voice, humor, etc. Be positive and specific: where were you engaged?

            Writing competition winners

          4. Writing competition winners
          5. Word contest
          6. Novel writing contest
          7. 100-word story competition
          8. Children's poetry contest

            9. How can we be generous, but specific and not focus on the negative? Be kind and attentive.

          9. Don’t play it safe. Fiction is about people in trouble; choices are not always good ones.