Writing Great YA Fiction
No query? No pitch? No problem!
Serendipity Literary Agency, in collaboration with Sourcebooks and Gotham Writers' Workshop, is hosting its third
Young Adult Novel Discovery Competition for a chance to win a one-on-one consultation with one of New York's leading YA literary agents!
If
you've written a novel for young adults—or have an idea for one that
you would like to write—we invite you to enter our contest. Simply
submit
only an enticing title along with the first 250 words from the opening of your original YA novel.
GREAT PRIZESThe Grand Prize Winner will have the opportunity to submit an entire manuscript to YA literary agent Regina Brooks
and
receive a free, 10-week writing course, courtesy of Gotham Writers'
Workshop, plus a collection of gourmet teas from Possibiliteas.co.
The Top Five Entrants (including
the Grand Prize winner) will receive a 15-minute, one-on-one pitch
session with Regina Brooks, one of New York’s premier literary agents
for young adult books. They will also receive commentary on their
submissions by editors at Scholastic, Harlequin Teen, Random House,
Viking, Disney, Roaring Brook Press, Sourcebooks, and Kimani Tru
and receive a one-year subscription to
The Writer magazine.
The First 50 Entrants will receive a copy of
Writing Great Books for Young Adults by Regina Brooks. (Shipped only to addresses in US and Canada.)
JUDGING YA
literary agent Regina Brooks and a select group of readers will read
all of the entries and determine the top 20 submissions. These
submissions will then be read by Rachel Griffiths, Editor at Scholastic;
Nancy Mercado, Executive Editor at Roaring Brook Press; Leah
Hultenschmidt, Executive Editor at Sourcebooks; Viola Krista, Editor at
Dial (Random House); Evette Porter, Editor at Kimani Tru; Natashya
Wilson, Senior Editor at Harlequin Teen; Abby Ranger, Editor at Disney
(Hyperion); and Kendra Levin, Editor at Viking (Penguin). These judges
will whittle the top 20 down to five, and each of the five winners will
be provided commentary on their submissions.
NOVEMBER IS NaNoWriMo
In honor of
National Novel Writing Month (
NaNoWriMo.org)—an
international event where aspiring novelists are encouraged to write an
entire novel in 30 days—entries for the YA Novel Discovery Contest will
be accepted from 12:01am (ET) November 1 until 11:59pm (ET), November
30, 2011.
IT IS EASY TO ENTER!
The contest is open to writers 14 years of age or older. Entrants will be judged solely on the title and the
first 250 words
of their YA novel—no additional material will be accepted. For an
inside look at what the judges will be looking for, participants can
refer to
Writing Great Books for Young Adults by Regina Brooks. There is no minimum word count for the submission.
Only online entries accepted. And only one submission per person. If more than one entry is submitted, only the first will be judged and the others will be discarded.
https://secure.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/Account.php
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