{"id":3148,"date":"2005-10-27T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:09","slug":"competitions-and-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"Competitions and Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NaNoWriMo is the <strong>NA<\/strong>tional <strong>NO<\/strong>vel <strong>WRI<\/strong>ting <strong>MO<\/strong>nth competition, where you attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. (Look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">here<\/a> for more information.)While I have nothing but faith in you, my darlings, I do urge you not to be dismayed if you&#8217;re not finished with it by the end of the month. Plug away!<br \/><strong>Can&#8217;t hang with the novel? There&#8217;s a new short story contest coming up from <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/contests\/\"><strong>Writer&#8217;s Digest<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong>The deadline is coming up, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/contests\/PopFiction\/\">start now<\/a> on getting your entry form and details squared away. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkweed.org\/2_1_2_a.html\">The Milkweed Prize<\/strong><\/a> for Children&#8217;s Literature,is a writing competition into which anyone who submits to Milkweed Editions is entered. Milkweed is in search of quality children&#8217;s novels intended for readers in the 8-13 age group. This competition is part of Milkweed&#8217;s children&#8217;s book publishing program for middle-graders. Prize: Judging will be by Milkweed Editions, and the winner of the prize will receive a $5,000 cash advance on any royalties agreed upon in the contractual arrangement negotiated at the time of acceptance. Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldashome.org\/\">The World As Home<\/a> series &#8212; very, VERY cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s a different kind of contest: Through<\/strong> the cool connectivity of the Web, you can<a href=\"http:\/\/contemporarylit.about.com\/gi\/dynamic\/offsite.htm?site=http:\/\/www.perseusbookspromos.com\/bookmarkcontest\/index.php%3Fid=9999\"> submit a favorite book<\/a> while recommending it to a another person via email and be entered to win a 15 book library of titles recommended by contributors from <a href=\"http:\/\/contemporarylit.about.com\/od\/authorinterviews\/a\/kevinSmokler.htm\">Bookmark Now<\/a> a Bay Area book\/blog\/web buzz phenom.<\/p>\n<p>As for my peoples doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SmartWriters.com\">SmartWriters<\/a> short story contest&#8230;good luck! Good luck! You&#8217;ve all got great stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaNoWriMo is the NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth competition, where you attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. (Look here for more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}