Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Check out this first page contest

The awesome Shelley Waters is holding a first page contest on the 25th-27th June.

This contest is only open to YA, Middle Grade, memoir, pop-culture non-fiction, and women’s commercial fiction.


So here's how the contest will work:
  1. Be sure your work fits into one of the following genres: YA, Middle Grade, memoir, pop-culture non-fiction, and women’s commercial fiction.
  2. Sign up on the link below.
  3. On June 25th, post your title, genre, word count and the first 250 words on your blog for critique.
  4. From June 25th through June 26th, hop around to the other contestant's blogs and critique their first 250 words.
  5. On June 27th, come back to my blog and post your final entry on my dedicated contest entry blog post. Be sure to include:
    1. Your email address
    2. Title, genre, wordcount
    3. Your polished first page (250 words) Don't stop in the middle of a sentence.
    4. Where you follow me
    5. Where you spread the word
If the contest wasn't awesome enough. Victoria Marini of Gelfman Schneider Literary Agency is the judge. 

Now, who wouldn't want to enter that?

1 comments:

Alleged Author said...

That does sound like a great contest. :)

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