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The 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2023 calendar year on May 6, 2024. [1] ... Feature Writing; Katie Engelhart, ...
The William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is one of America's leading literary competitions and has been presenting awards in fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1993. [1] The competition is named after the Faulkner Society’s namesake, novelist William Faulkner , and William Wisdom of New Orleans , a literary ...
A sister contest, Illustrators of the Future, was launched in 1988 and presents awards for science fiction art. [1] Hubbard characterized the contest as a way of "giving back" to the field that had defined his professional writing life. The contest has no entry fee.
A number of entrants in the Lune Spark Young Writers' Short Story Contest later won and received notoriety for their work. Notable published winners include UN Child Ambassador Nico Roman, who writes climate change fiction, and child author Addison Hill (under the pseudonym "Cress Wallwalker").
Writers of the Future – contest for new authors, since 1985; Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) – since 1986; Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987; Japan Fantasy Novel Award – since 1989; Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand) – since 1989; Urania Award (Italy) – since 1989; SFRA Pioneer Award – best critical essay-length work, since 1990
The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, reads in full:
National Novel Writing Month, often shortened to NaNoWriMo (/ ˌ n æ n oʊ ˈ r aɪ m oʊ / NAN-oh-RY-moh), [1] is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that promotes creative writing around the world.
In late 2024, multiple news outlets reported a large rise in the prevalence of look-alike contests across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, as well as later contests in India and Brazil, which were attributed to the initial popularity of a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in October that year.