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Sourcebooks Fire #YAlitchat Writing Contest
Event Details
Time: February 1, 2010 to February 28, 2010
Location: #YAlitchat
Event Type: writing, contest
Organized By: Georgia McBride
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2012
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Event Description
CONTEST DETAILS
Submissions for the contest will run 2/1/2010 – 2/28/2010. PLEASE NOTE: Sourcebooks Fire has launched their ning community. They have awesome contests and info on their releases. You may even see someone you recognize there. Also, if you've not RSVP'd to the contest yet, do so there. PLEASE DO NOT RSVP in BOTH PLACES.
Please follow the following directions carefully to submit a piece of YA fiction for consideration:
To participate in the contest, you MUST RSVP to the event.
Instructions on where to send submissions, as well as outlines for what we're looking for, will be emailed on Friday, January 29th. Instructions as to the email address you'll need for all submissions will be provided in that document.
Only submissions from people who’ve will be read and judged to prevent multiple submissions.
In the body of your email please include:
Author contact info (full name, email), the title of the piece (less than 15 words) under a header reading “Title,” an up to 100-word description of your novel under the header “Novel Description” and the first 250 words of your novel and under the header, "Chapter 1."
No additional information will be read by judges.
EX:
Author Contact
Best B. Known, bestbknown2u4sure@igotzthemgoods.com
Title
The Grapes of Wrath
Novel Description
Haunted by dreams of chocolate, boy unwittingly dreams the cure for chocolate addiction in YA writers. When he posts the cure to his blog one day, he becomes instantly hated and ostracized.
Chapter 1
The sky, gray above, hung like the rug Mrs. Lewiston used to drape over the porch railing each weekend. Drab, lifeless and low; we were the same in our defeat.
Submissions will go through three rounds of judging. Georgia McBride, founder of #YALitchat will be the first-round judge, whittling down the entrants to the top one hundred fifty (150).
These one hudred fifty (150) entries will then be ranked on a scale of one(1)-ten (10) by three (3) Sourcebooks Fire editors. The top twenty (20) submissions (calculated by adding scores) will be notified and allowed to submit a pitch letter and first twenty (20) pages of their novel for further consideration by Sourcebooks editors, as well as YA literary agent, Regina Brooks, founder of Serendipity Literary agency.
These twenty (20) up will also receive copies of books Writing Great Books for Young Adults by Regina Brooks.
Depending on the number of submissions, winners will be announced at the end of March.
Of additional consideration and interest: This contest is open to international submissions. All submissions are property of author. Author retains all rights. Sourcebooks Fire may use winning entries including author names in contest promotions. Writers are not required to sign with Serendipity Literary Agency. Manuscripts must be in completion stage but do not need to be completed.
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Comment by Megan Curd on January 11, 2010 at 5:55pm -
Looking forward to this. :) Can't wait for you to read my material!!
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Staff Comment by Georgia McBride on January 11, 2010 at 5:40pm -
Hi Yat-Yee - sorry about that. In the future, pls email me. I don't always get a chance to visit the groups. http://yalitchat.ning.com/forum/topics/yalitchat-transcripts
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Comment by Yat-Yee Chong on January 11, 2010 at 5:19pm -
Georgia: I tried to attend the chat with Daniel the other evening but couldn't figure out how to do it. Is there a transcript? Thanks
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Staff Comment by Georgia McBride on January 11, 2010 at 5:12pm -
Sandi-that is correct. We will want a Word doc! I know-first time for everything. Melissa-a pitch is just about same a query only you have to do it in 100 words or less. Tell us what your book is about in 100 words or less. So see example I give in the TeenFire (Sourcebooks Fire) group for Harry Potter. I will update here.
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Comment by Melissa Killian on January 11, 2010 at 4:52pm -
Is a pitch letter the same as a query letter? If not, could you explain the differences?
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Comment by Sandi Underwood on January 11, 2010 at 10:34am -
Okay--but first, happy birthday on the 29th! I went back and read the instructions again and the question I had was: in the email you will provide, we send everything mentioned above in a single file word document as an attachment, correct? Not copied in the body of the email? Thx!
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Staff Comment by Georgia McBride on January 10, 2010 at 6:59pm -
PLEASE DO NOT RSVP TWICE! This will cause problems with your submission. If you have submitted an RSVP on the #YAlitchat community ning, that is sufficient (events calendar section). Please do not RSVP on the Sourcebooks Fire NING site once you have done so here. You WILL receive your confirmation invite! We look forward to reading your submissions.
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Staff Comment by Georgia McBride on January 7, 2010 at 3:34pm -
We are asking that you submit the first 250 words of your novel as well as a description of the novel of not more than 100 words. Also we also ask that your work be COMPLETE before you submit. WHY? Becasue if yours is one of the books we want, we want it to be ready for submission. We don't want to have to wait for it. Also- Sandy, if you have questions, please post them to, no need to wait until the 29th. I won't want to answer contest q's on my birthday!
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Comment by Sandi Underwood on January 7, 2010 at 1:50pm
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Thx for the opportunity to enter. I have tons of questions, but I'm sure they'll all be answered in the email.
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Comment by Yat-Yee Chong on January 6, 2010 at 10:07pm
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I am willing to wait to hear more about the contest on Jan 29 but would you be able to tell me if the work I'm planning to enter has to be complete and ready to be submitted? Thanks
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