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The first one I want to let you know about is over at Kidlit.com.  It ends Jan. 31st and is for MG and YA finished novels. They MUST be completed manuscripts.  The rules are simple and listed here, along with the prizes. 1st place is a 15 page critique of your work. So send you manuscripts to mary at kidlit dot com with Kidlit Contest in the subject line.

The second is by Sourcebooks. They are launching a new young adult imprint called Sourcebooks Fire and is hosting a contest for YA writers. For more information, check out Georgia McBride’s blog. Contest runs from Feb. 1 to Feb. 28, 2010.

If you know of contest offered to writers, please let us know, and we will try to keep track for everyone.

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Sarah is writer looking for an agent. She is currently working on novel # 4, editing novels 2 and 3, and querying novel # 1. For more insight to her work, visit: http://legendoftheprotectors.wordpress.com/ or http://legendoftheprotectors.blogspot.com/

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Short story contest ends September 12th.

Directions:

1. Entries must be between 500 and 1500 words.
2. Email your entry to ifyougiveagirl@gmail.com.
3. The Girls will choose the top five.
4. The final stories will be posted September 12 (two weeks).
5. Comment on your favorite short to elect the winner!
6. Winner will receive a copy of Donut Days.

Here are the three prompts: Choose one that fits your style.

1.Visual Prompt

2. Musical Prompt

3. Finish-the-Sentence Prompt
As I rounded the corner my nostrils filled with the acrid stench of smoke. Flashing lights, headlights, and an flickering glow filled the blackness, making the generic streetlights no longer necessary…

Good Luck!

Rules for Short Stories

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Here at IYGAGAP we’re all about keeping it real…so that’s why it’s time for another contest! Grab that laptop and a spare half hour (okay--maybe hour) and get ready to pound out a short story.

Directions:

1. Entries must be between 500 and 1500 words.
2. Email your entry to ifyougiveagirl@gmail.com.
3. The Girls will choose the top five.
4. The final stories will be posted September 12 (two weeks).
5. Comment on your favorite short to elect the winner!
6. Winner will receive a copy of Donut Days.

Are you ready?

Here are the three prompts: Choose one that fits your style.

1.Visual Prompt

2. Musical Prompt

3. Finish-the-Sentence Prompt
As I rounded the corner my nostrils filled with the acrid stench of smoke. Flashing lights, headlights, and an flickering glow filled the blackness, making the generic streetlights no longer necessary…

Go!!

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Hi all!  Quick note.  I am hosting a short story contest on my blog.  Come see!

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Anica Lewis

And here is the winning query:

Dear Mr. or Mrs. Agent,

I’m writing to you about my novel, THE GLOBAL WARMING NIGHTMARE.  In this story, global warming makes it too hot for ice to stay frozen, so the polar bears can’t live up north anymore and they come down and start eating people.  (I know that if all the ice really melted, there would probably be floods and stuff, but the book is for kids, and they don’t know stuff like that.  I babysit a lot so I think I know something about kids LOL.)  The main character of THE GLOBAL WARMING NIGHTMARE is a kid, like maybe 11 or 12, so kids should be able to relate to her.  She lives in Canada, and that’s where the polar bears go first because it’s still kind of cold.  So people are fighting the polar bears, and this girl, who’s name is Sarah, rescues this one polar bear cub and names it Snowy.  Then Sarah figures out about the whole global warming thing, and she takes Snowy down to Washington D.C. and calls a conference to tell all the world leaders how they have to be more careful of the environment.

THE GLOBAL WARMING NIGHTMARE is probably going to be at least a hundred pages when I finish it.  I’m about halfway through now.  If it needs to be longer, I can put more stuff in.  Maybe there could be snow leopards too or something.

Here are the first 6 chapters, plus the 11th chapter which I skipped ahead to write because I was really excited about the scene where Snowy runs away in the Pentagon.  Isn’t it awesome?  This book would probably make a great movie, too, especially if it used that girl who was in INKHEART.  Anyway, I did spell check but there might still be some mistakes.  But that’s what editors are for, right?

Can’t wait to hear what you think!

- Nicole (but everybody calls me Nikki) Smith

P.S.  Snowy is my cat’s name.  I think he would like to be a polar bear!!!

Thanks to everyone who participated! I had fun reading them.

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Sarah is writer looking for an agent. She is currently working on novel # 4, editing novels 2 and 3, and querying novel # 1. For more insight to her work, visit: http://legendoftheprotectors.wordpress.com/ or http://legendoftheprotectors.blogspot.com/

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Solve this problem:

I gripped the wheel hard, my widened eyes taking in as much of the awful scene as possible. The trees approached too quickly, my headlights flashing over the endless sea of them on the side of the road.

No way a car can fit through there.

Squeals from the tires filled the cab somehow. All I could think was…

Enter to win a pack of Uniball pens. Winner will be chosen at random Saturday July 11th. At this time, we are only permitted to ship prizes within the Continental US.

Good luck and get creative!!

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