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2020 WINNERS SELECTED!
THE ANNUAL "A WOMAN'S WRITE" UNPUBLISHED NOVEL CONTEST
ENTER for 2021
Begins January 1 every year!
Enter the Annual AWW International [Unpublished] Novel Contest! All submissions receive a timely, thorough, thoughtful critique. Winners receive money, certificates and notification on our site.
• PRIZE: $500
• ENTRY FEE : $40 (includes a fair, professional critique)
• ANNUAL DEADLINE: Always November 30 of current year
Contest entries are accepted from January 1 ANNUALLY! You can submit up until midnight, November 30, each year.
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There is a great variety among the women who send their work to us: young women writing a first book; experienced non-fiction writers having a go at fiction; women with degrees in Creative Writing or Journalism; older women, in their seventies or eighties, still motivated by artistic creativity. We are overwhelmed by the support our competition receives, the notes of thanks and feeling of trust we get, the sense that we are helping new and practiced writers hone their skills.
A Woman's Write has truly become
A Woman's International
Write!
Our authors
come from
across the US --
and from Canada,
the UK, the Caribbean,
Spain, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand,
Australia, India, Africa,
Scandinavia,
and Hong Kong.
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THE BEST WRITING TIP EVER:
WRITE 1,000 WORD OF MEANINGFUL TEXT--A STORY, POEM, ESSAY OR ARTICLE. THEN CUT THE WORD COUNT TO 500. DO THIS ONCE A WEEK.
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AWW
WINNER
2020
2020 AWW Winner
The 2020 recipient of the annual $500.00 prize for Best Unpublished Novel is
award-winning Remy Maisel, British author whose eerily intense saga of familial abuse has emotional charge and cinematic potential. Maisel, coauthor of Is Satire Saving Our Nation? writes for Salon, Politico, Kveller, and JewishFiction.
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Honorable Mention 2020
Cathy Carroll-Moriarty is an American writer whose entry, Broken Things Beautiful, examines the rebuilding of relationships by overcoming the pains of an emotionally scarred upbringing. Here's Cathy's take on her experience with A Woman's Write: "A Woman's Write is an entity that values women and strives to support them in honing their writing craft. The critique that I received as part of the competition was handled in a timely manner. It was informative and encouraging. When I had questions about the edits or the competition, Barbara always responded quickly and professionally. This experience has buoyed me to continue my pursuit of a writing career and publication of my novel. Thank you!
Julie Ackroyd writing from the UK, has created Puffin Therapy, a novel of a smart female's introspective explorations and outer engagement with nature while on a boat trip to Scotland. Julie, author of Child Actors on the London Stage Circa 1600, says this about her participation in A Woman's Write: "That new writers can gain such constructive feedback and pointers about their work from the competition is fantastic. Having someone else validate your writing choices and comment positively on your work is so valuable. It’s one thing scribbling away on your own and thinking something is funny and pacey. It’s another finding that judges, who read manuscript after manuscript, feel the same way about the characters you have created."
[Honorable Mention Winners are given a refund of the original $40 submission fee and, like the Grand Prize Winner, receive a 15% discount if they choose A Woman’s Write Editing Services in the coming year.]
2020 AWW Winner Remy Maisel has this to say:
"It is the greatest honour to be selected as the grand prize winner in the 2020 A Woman’s Write Unpublished Novel Competition. All writers know that it can be a lonely and thankless task to write a novel - what we experience most is rejection, followed by silence. Even in previous years, when I’ve submitted to the competition, I’ve received a response and thoughtful feedback. To win this year is just icing on the cake -
but it’s a lot of icing!"
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ALL AWW CONTEST
ENTRANTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A 10% DISCOUNT ON EDITING SERVICES!
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A Woman's Write Writers Getting Published...!
THE ECLIPSE DANCER
Author Laura Koerber sent an entry to the 2019 A Woman's Write competition, along with a copy of THE ECLIPSE DANCER for our review. In this magically real novel, a sixty-something female examines her life and her heritage as a mixed species creature – half human, half fairy. Andy is sixty-five, still living in the central Iowa farm region where she was born, and still with her mother, Cindy, who is slowly perishing from cancer, dementia and the lack of the booze she loved so well. Andy’s days would be tough but for her love of nature and her prodigious memory of past events. On the day the book opens, she is awaiting a total eclipse; at its peak, she will dance – and fly. (Full review by Barbara Bamberger Scott on Amazon and Good Reads.)
WOMEN RISE UP
WOMEN RISE UP is a new book by women's justice advocate Katey Zeh. It offers new perspectives on Biblical women, showing the rebellion and strength behind their actions, and correcting the sexist interpretations given by male scholars, even popes, over the ages. Lively, conversational, highly intelligent look at scripture from a strong female viewpoint. (Full review by Barbara Bamberger Scott appears on Amazon, Good Reads, and Book Reporter.)
HILDA AND NADIN
DRY LEAVES IN THE WIND - HILDA AND NADIN is written by Nagihan Os, Turkish author and artist living in Amsterdam. Her novel draws parallels between two women, one old, one young, one an established rebel, the other on the brink of rebellion in a country suffering oppression and moving toward revolution. Courageous, loving women brought together in life and beyond the grave. (Full review by Barbara Bamberger Scott appears on Amazon and Good Reads.)
Averil Drummond of Australia won an AWW Honorable Distinction Prize in 2015. Here is her award-winning book, GLOAM, newly published, a vibrant fantasy combining intrigue, romance, and a serious look at global warming!
Award-winning author Cecelia Velastegui used our new Book Review Service for her latest historical novel, Lucia Zarate, the weird wonderful tale of the world's smallest woman. The book is a finalist in the 2017 Latino Book Awards.
Barbara's beautiful book! Based on her many articles in Homestead.org, this is a work that took 5 years and two arts grants to bring to (generous) fruition! A unique history of American homesteading, endorsed and reviewed by Wanda Urbanksa, Simple Living author and expert. Now on Amazon!
OUR OTHER SERVICES.....
As many of you already know, the one who takes the prize in the AWW Novel Contest is not the only winner at A Woman’s Write. A large percentage of our entrants go on to publication, and we like to think that our critiques give them a pat on the back (or a kick in the pants) that helps steer them toward that success.
Sometimes one of our contestants will come back to us for full editing services, all types, all offered at absurdly low prices -- professional assistance and that extra pair of eagle eyes that can make her book shine when it reaches a publisher’s desktop. Honorable Mention winners also get a discount including rebate of the original entry fee when they access our editing services.
Please ask about our price structure for editing, opinion/analysis, Beta reading, and reviews. Our rates even go down with second or third books!
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