Tag: writing competition
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March 28, 2008 03:51 PM EDT --
Just a heads up incase anyone is interested in partaking. The grand prize is $3000, trip to NYC, and introductions to 4 agents or editors for your winning entry. Please just see the guidelines posted on . . .
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June 18, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Our First Chapters Writing Competition was a tremendous success, with two Gather authors to be published in the fall. Terry Shaw, author of The Way Life Should Be, and Geoffrey Edwards, author of Fire . . .
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June 15, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
Selfless. Brave. Noble. Such are the world’s heroes! Consider the heroes in your life. Veterans might come to mind. Perhaps your grandfather, mother, or brother helped fight for freedom – . . .
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February 23, 2008 12:36 PM EST --
I drink coffee every morning
After time that I've spent snoring
I drink it strong and hot and black
This is the way that I get back into the groove of wakefulness
I . . .
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April 12, 2008 12:56 PM EDT --
Stacy had been whining to him about marriage for two years. Why couldn't she just leave things the way they are? He was happy; they had a happy life together why ruin it with . . .
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April 04, 2007 06:08 PM EDT --
Congratulations to our Reader Promotion winners whose comments on each of the 20 advancing First Chapters submissions were selected as the most insightful. These readers will be awarded a $500 Borders . . .
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September 18, 2007 12:53 AM EDT --
I may be a little late to the game since there are only about 24 hours left to the contest, but I finally got around to creating a photo essay. I compiled pictures from my travels, all of which inspired . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
Round 1 of the First Chapters Writing Competition will soon be coming to a close. I have been RRCing (read, rate comment) as many as I can, but as a slow reader—particularly on a computer monitor—there . . .
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November 09, 2007 05:13 PM EST --
I had definitely gone off the deep end. Strange voices had begun speaking in my head as I came unglued under the intense stress. At first they had waited their turns in an orderly manner, but now they . . .
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February 10, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
The dusty typewriter sat on the desk in a room bathed with sunlight. This was where he always went to write his inner thoughts ruminate on loves won and lost, and ache for one . . .
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May 17, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
The voting period for Round Three has ended. We will be announcing the five Round Three winners on Tuesday, May 22.
Thank you all for your participation in the First Chapters Writing . . .
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April 10, 2007 05:50 PM EDT --
Celebrate Mom for Mother's Day!
Designed to celebrate moms for Mother’s Day, Mitch Albom, the acclaimed author of “For One More Day,” along with Borders and the CBS Early Show announce . . .
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July 11, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Voting in the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition is simple! If after reading a chapter you’re so impressed that you’d recommend the book for publishing, rate that chapter a 10. Very . . .
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September 05, 2007 10:12 PM EDT --
Geoffrey Edwards, a Gather member, is the Finalist in the Gather First Chapters Writing Competition and author of Fire Bell in the Night, which will be available September 18 in bookstores.
This is the . . .
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September 17, 2007 04:53 PM EDT --
As many here know, Terry Shaw was the winner of the Gather First Chapters Writing Competition, that was run in conjunction with Touchstone/Simon & Schuster that began last January.
As winner, his . . .
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September 18, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
When I got my advance copy of Terry Shaw’s novel The Way Life Should Be, winner of Gather.com’s First Chapter Writing Competition, I started to read it with some trepidation and many reservations. . . .
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March 01, 2008 12:42 PM EST --
There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings. The kind of evening where she lets herself . . .
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January 19, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
I don't think I ever realized the significance of a novel's title until I entered this competition. With so many first chapter submissions (and so little time), are you also choosing . . .
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April 02, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The voting period for Round One has ended. Please check back on Tuesday, April 3 when we will be announcing the Round One winners.
Thank you all for your participation in the First . . .
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May 01, 2007 09:02 AM EDT --
We're pleased to announce the Round Two winners of the First Chapters Writing Competition!
Your votes were counted to bring Round Two to a close. The field has been narrowed . . .
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