WLT at the Texas Book Festival

The Writers’ League of Texas will be at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. We will be located at booths 122 & 123 in the exhibits tent on Colorado between 12th and 13th streets.

Four Reasons Why You Should Stop by the WLT Booth:

1) Consider this an opportunity to meet and mingle with other literati-lovers in Texas. We know we’d love to meet you. Stop by and say hi!

2) This serves as a nice time for you to meet our new staff: Publicity and Programming Manager Jan Baumer, Office Manager Bethany Hegedus, and Bookkeeper Kate Meehan. We’re delighted to have these intelligent ladies working with us. Come welcome them!

3) We’re lucky to have WLT members who will be in our booth signing their books, click here to learn more about the member book signings. Come get your book signed!

4) We’ll be announcing the 2009 Book Awards winners! The ceremony will take place 3:30 Saturday in Room E.026 at the State Capital Extension. Come honor the winners and finalists!

Contest: American Short(er) Fiction

American Short Fiction loves short shorts! Its new contest highlights great work in shorter fiction–stories of 1,000 words or less.

First prize receives $500 and publication.

Second prize receives $250 and publication.

Deadline is May 1. Submissions accepted online via the ASF Submission Manager. For more, see the guidelines on the ASF Web site.

Short Fiction Contest

The deadline for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award is Saturday, February 28. Prizes include:

• First place: $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies
• 2nd-place: $500 and possible publication
• 3rd-place: $300 and possible publication

Other details:

• Reading fee: $15 per story
• Open to all writers
• Stories not to exceed 3,000 words

For more information, see the guidelines.

2009 Manuscript Contest

Deadline: March 6, 2009

The Writers’ League of Texas is now accepting entries for its annual manuscript contest for unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, children’s, and young adult books.

Prize: The winner in each category meets individually with an agent or editor during the annual Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference.

For guidelines and more information, view the 2009 Manuscript Contest brochure (pdf format).

Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest

The deadline for Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest is February 8 (as in Sunday). Final judges include authors Sue Grafton and Sue Monk Kidd, and the winning book will be published by Penguin Group (USA). Here’s the link for the details.

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Contest List

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