Announced at the Christy banquet on Saturday night: Zondervan is sponsoring a contest for unpublished novelists. Full guidelines will soon be posted on the Z website. When they are, I'll let you know. For now, here are the basics.
Unpubbed fiction authors, start getting your manuscripts ready now. There will be three rounds of judging for the contest. In the first round each author will submit a proposal for a novel. These will be judged and winnowed down. Those who make it through the first round will be asked to submit the complete manuscript. These will go through a second round of judging and be narrowed down to finalists. (Not sure how many--the guidelines will say.) The finalists will be judged by selected Zondervan authors to determine the winner.
The winner will be announced at next year's Mt. Hermon Writer's Conference, held over Palm Sunday weekend. Winning prize: publication of the novel by Zondervan.
Start polishing those wips!
All dressed up for the Christy Banquet:Left to right--Angie Hunt, Robin Lee Hatcher, Sunni Jeffers,
Terri Blackstock, Marlo Schalesky, Tracy Higley, Brandilyn Collins
4 comments:
Very interesting! Can't wait to hear more. Thanks for posting this, Brandilyn. And the pic is fab! :)
A big deal to be sure but not for those who write for the general Christian fiction market and not the CBA/ECPA market.
What a gorgeous line up!! :D But I only see one member of the BHCC there - waving at Robin!
Gorgeous picture.
Can't wait to hear more about the contest. Thank you for the information.
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