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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) was a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California until 2025. [1] Entrants were invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" – that is, one which was deliberately bad.
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.
Pages in category "Writing contests" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Academic Writing Month;
In October 2007, the self-publishing company CreateSpace teamed up with NaNoWriMo to begin offering winners a single free, paperback proof copy of their manuscripts, with the option to use the proof to then sell the novel on Amazon.com. [38] In 2011, CreateSpace offered winners five free, paperback proof copies of their manuscripts. In addition ...
AWP sponsors six contests, and also provides an extensive listing of literary grants, awards, and publication opportunities available from organizations and publishers throughout North America. Their contests include the AWP Award Series , the George Garrett Award, the Small Press Publisher Award, the Intro Journals Project, the Kurt Brown ...
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. [1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson.
The Science Talent Search is open to high school seniors living in the United States. [12] Since the beginning of the competition, a large number of winners have come from New York , representing nearly one-third of the finalists in the years that Westinghouse sponsored the competition. [ 13 ]
Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.