Children's Writer is having a middle grade mystery short story contest. First prize is $500 and publication. Submissions are due April 30.Current Contest:Middle-Grade MysteryThe contest is for a well-constructed fictional mystery that will engage readers 9 to 12, to 900 words. Entries will be judged on structure, appeal for the audience, use of the best... Continue Reading →
Blogoversary with Cool Prizes!!
Happy 4th Blogoversary to The Bookshelf Muse blog! What celebration isn't complete without presents and The Bookshelf Muse has a few for lucky contest winners!!One of the prizes is a chance to have a character named after you in fellow SCBWI WWA member Marilee Brother's final book, MIDNIGHT MOON, in her UNBIDDEN MAGIC series. Not... Continue Reading →
Good News for Mike Cressy
Good News and a BIG congratulations to fellow SCBWI WWA member Mike Cressy! Mike is the SILA Silver Award winner in the Children's Book category and also was accepted into their 50th Illustration West Competition. There will be an website exhibition and gallery exhibition in late March (we'll post the link to the website when... Continue Reading →
Query Contest!!!
Fellow SCBWI WWA member Dorine White is giving us a chance for an early holiday present! Her blog, The Write Path, is having a query contest. Editor Stan Trembley, from Variance Publishing, has agreed to pick his favorite query and give them a 5 page manuscript critique! Second place will get a critique of their... Continue Reading →
Be an 826 Student for a Day!
In honor of Youth Literacy Day on Friday (8/26), 826 Seattle is presenting a few writing projects similar to what they might offer students at the center. Write an 8-2-6 haiku, an 82.6 word short story, or an 826 character news article. They'll publish their favorite entries daily, and favorites will receive tote bags full... Continue Reading →
Highlights Announces 2012 Contest Theme
Highlights 2012 Fiction Contest's theme is a funny story inspired by an unusual newspaper headline.Prizes:Three prizes of $1,000 or tuition for the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop at ChautauquaEntry Dates & Details:-All entries must be postmarked between January 1 and January 31, 2012.-They welcome work from both published and unpublished authors. All submissions must be previously... Continue Reading →
Help Dana Sullivan Win an iPad!!!
Local chapter member and Scooby Snackmeister Dana Sullivan's picture book, I'M GOING TO BE A PIRATE, was selected for a contest held by the e-book publisher TwoBigDads. The contest is to have the most downloaded app from iTunes by August 27 and the prize is an Apple iPad. Dana swears he will let everyone who... Continue Reading →
Jennifer Phillips May Online Virtual Book Party
Shoreline children's author Jennifer Phillips invites SCBWI members to stop by online during May for her virtual book party celebrating little-known figures in history featured in her juvenile biographies.Phillips has published in children's magazines and also has released three young reader biographies to date: ELIJAH LOVEJOY'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, about the abolitionist editor who died... Continue Reading →
Win an Autographed copy of Holly’s Black’s RED GLOVE.
Fellow SCBWI WWA member Dorine White has a contest on her blog to win an autographed copy of Holly Black's RED GLOVE. Visit her blog to find out the rules for the contest.If you missed Holly Black at last weekend's 20th Annual SCBWI WWA conference you can read the post on her keynote on plot,... Continue Reading →
Picture Book Competition
At the SCBWI Conference last month, with Stephen Mooser’s blessing, Two Big Dads (A UK-registered app book publishing company) launched a picture book competition to win an iPad. It's a picture book competition for writers and illustrators (the deadline is April 8). To find out more information about Two Big Dads, the contest (and all... Continue Reading →