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Get Your Manuscripts Ready!

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Unpublished Writers: Just a Few Days Left and It’s Only Offered Every Two Years

Tuesday December 27th, 2011 in Contests and Calls for Submissions, Meg's Posts | 10 Comments »

Reputable Novel Contests You Might Apply To

Thursday August 11th, 2011 in Contests and Calls for Submissions, Meg's Posts | 2 Comments »

The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Friday December 17th, 2010 in Contests and Calls for Submissions, Meg's Posts | No comments »

Writing Contests to Help You Break Out – from Real Simple and Iowa Review – and AWWP Writing Prompt #4

Sunday August 29th, 2010 in Contests and Calls for Submissions, Meg's Posts, writing tips | 3 Comments »

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About 1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started

If you think writers are born rather than made and brilliant writing is recognized immediately, those rejection slips for your novel—or story or nonfiction query, or (heaven help you) letter to your own mother—can seem a daunting thing. The truth is getting started as a writer takes hard work, persistence, and a bit of luck.

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