Over $3,300 in Prizes, Feedback, and Exposure.
Submit the first three chapters of your novel. Grand prize award of:
$500 cash.
$2,500 self-publishing solution from CreateSpace.
Feedback on every chapter you submit.
The chance to meet other authors, get motivated, and get noticed.
$100 cash awards for the following sub-categories:
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Romance
Memoir and Non-fiction
Everyone who enters receives feedback, motivation, and advice.
Keep Us Reading
We know that writing a compelling start isn’t easy. So, for the fourth year we’ve put together a motivational competition to help you hone your first three chapters to perfection (if you haven’t already). We’re looking for opening chapters that will create a burning need to find out what happens, how the characters turn out, how the novel resolves itself. The kind of start that gets an agent to call back, a publisher to show interest, and a reader to plunk down their hard earned money. Above all, give us three opening chapters that will keep us reading.
Submission deadline: June 8, 2010
Learn more about the Strongest Start Novel Competition
Interesting. Create Space also pubs one copy of every completed NaNo novel if the writer sends it in…
Yeah, I admit I haven't checked to see if you HAVE to publish with Createspace as part of this competition. If so, I won't participate, but otherwise, why not?