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AWW News

Erica Eisdorfer's AWW-Winning The Wet Nurses Tale published by Putnam!

ERICA EISDORFER's The Wet Nurses Tale , the winner of our Good Read competition (June 2007), is now to be published by Putnam this August. Congratualtions Erica!

AWW congratulates THEA HUGHES! Her unpublished novel, Buen Camino, that won first prize in our Women's Write Good Read Fiction Competition, has now been published by Eloquent Books in New York under the title of The Red Door.

The Good Read Novel Competition Enters its Sixth Year with New Ways to Win!

At A Woman's Write, we want to give new or as yet unrecognized writers a chance to have their work read and analyzed, along an a opportunity to win a significant cash prize to assist in furthering their creative ambitions.

Here's how it works:

Submit the first 75 pages of your unpublished novel to our Good Read competition, along with a $40 fee. Within a few weeks you will receive a thorough, thoughtful critique with editing comments and corrections. You will be given an opinion about character and plot development.

You then have the option to resubmit the entire novel, having applied changes based on our comments and suggestions. This resubmission will be accompanied by a $20 reading fee and represents your final entry into the competition.

Entries submitted initially for critique will be judged if not resubmitted. Resubmissions will be judged as the final entry in place of the original entry, with no exceptions.

This lower fee scale including critique will, we hope, serve as a motivation to all writers in these economically pressing times to send their work for a professional analysis, with the further incentive to make an effort to improve the work -- and the possibility of winning $500.

The Good Read competition will run from January 1, 2009 until November 30, 2009. December will be a closed month in which judging will take place after all entries have been read and critiqued. A winner will be announced on January 1, 2010.

We have been rewarded many times over by our entrants who write and thank us for our incisive and helpful comments and edits. Some of our authors have gone on to win other awards and to get published. This makes us believe that at A Woman's Write, we are doing something right for women.
Please read the rules thoroughly, and send us your entry to the Good Read novel competition.

Latest Winner Announced!

Cynthia Parks, author of Houses, is the winner in this round of the Good Read Novel Writing Competition.

When she learned she’d won our Good Read prize, Cynthia wrote, “Obviously, I'm thrilled to have won the contest! I can't tell you how much this encouragement means to me and how much it energizes my desire to keep writing.

“I am especially grateful to A Woman's Write for the opportunity it offers women to "test the waters," so to speak, with our work. The website offers clear directions about contests, encourages us with the
success stories of others, and generally provides a useful and supportive environment for women who are serious about their craft.”

Read more about Cynthia Parks and an excerpt from her novel on our Winners page.

Success Stories Updated

For years AWW contestant Jane Kennedy Sutton satisfied her passion for writing through correspondence with friends and family while living in Taiwan, Korea, England, the Netherlands, Italy and Saudi Arabia. While abroad, she had several articles published in the American Women’s Association of Rome Forum Magazine, and assisted with the publications from other international women’s clubs. Now a full-time resident of Fort Myers, Florida, Jane has switched to writing fiction. Check the SUCCESS STORIES page for more info.

A Woman's Write Has a New Addition

See the ABOUT page for information about Elizabeth Devereux, the latest addition to our editing/judging staff.