5th
Annual YA Novel Discovery Contest
SerendipityLiterary Agency
in conjunction with Sourcebooks
Inc.
is hosting their fifth annual Young
Adult Novel Discovery Competition.
No
query? No pitch? No problem!
Get
in Front of Top YA Editors and Agents with ONLY the
First 250 Words of Your YA Novel.
Have
a young adult novel—or a YA novel idea—tucked away for a rainy
day? Are you putting off pitching your idea simply because you’re
not sure how to pitch an agent? No problem! All you have to do is
submit the first 250
words
of your novel and you can win exposure to editors and a review of
your manuscript from one of New York’s TOP young adult literary
agents, Regina Brooks.
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—this contest is meant to encourage the
aspiring YA author to get started on that novel by offering an
incentive for completing the first 250 words.
Great Prizes
The 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 with editors from Scholastic, Feiwel and Friends, Random House, Little Brown, Kensington, Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and Sourcebooks. In addition, they will receive a year’s subscription to The Writer magazine!
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 with editors from Scholastic, Feiwel and Friends, Random House, Little Brown, Kensington, Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and Sourcebooks. In addition, they will receive a year’s subscription to The Writer magazine!
First 50 Entrants will receive a copy of Writing Great Books for Young Adults by Regina Brooks.
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So if your wondering how it works it's easy:The
rules of the contest are simple and entering is easy. Submit entries
of ONLY the first 250 words of your manuscript and the title
via the contest website at http://tinyurl.com/YAContest1
.One
entry per person; anyone age 14+ can apply. Open to the U.S. &
Canada (void where prohibited). Entries for the YA Novel Discovery
Contest will be accepted from 12:01am (ET) November 1st,
2013 until 11:59pm November 30th,
2013 (ET)
YA
literary agent Regina Brooks and
her team
will
read all of the entries and determine the top 20 submissions. These
submissions will then be read by:
Deidre Jones Little
Brown,
Nicole Raymond Candlewick,
Aubrey Poole Sourcebooks,
Kendra Levin Viking
Penguin,
Mercedes Fernandez Kensington,
Annie Nybo Simon
and Schuster,
Erica Finkel Abrams
Books,
Monica Jean Random
House,
Catherine Laudone Simon
and Schuster,
Stacey Friedberg Penguin
Group,
Paula Sadlet Random
House,
Laura Whitaker Bloomsbury,
Anna Roberts Feiwel
and Friends.
These
judges will whittle the top 20 down to five, and each of the five
winners will be provided commentary on their submissions. PREVIOUS
WINNERS: Previous winners are being published by major houses and
many have received representation.
So if your interested in becoming an author go for it and ENTER NOW! http://tinyurl.com/YAContest13
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