Book 1st Chapter Contest - November 2009
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This writing contest will start on September 12, 2009.
Purpose: Have fun, enjoy the competition, improve your writing, and become a better author by participating in the peer critique process portion of this contest.
Who Can Enter: This contest is open to all authors. All submissions must be posted and assigned critiques completed by November 30, 2009. Your chapter must be 10,000 words or fewer. You may post additional chapters to this site for critique, but only one chapter will be eligible for the contest.
Subject Matter: You choose. Please refer to our content policy if you have questions.
Prizes: The winner of this contest will receive $50.
How to Enter: It’s pretty easy
- Create a free account or sign in for existing members.
- Upload your chapter; make sure you select “Book First Chapter Contest” as the category.
- Submit the first chapter of your novel for peer critique.
- Complete your assigned reviews, this is discussed more below.
Decisions: There will be 2 rounds of judging.
- Authors from the Review Fuse staff will select the 3 best works for Round 2.
- Of these 3 works selected, Review Fuse management will select the winning authors based on who gave the most detailed and well thought out critiques to their peer’s.
Entry Fee: There are no entry fees or purchases of any kind required to enter and win the contest. After you submit your work to the contest you will be required to complete assigned critiques of other authors (4 for free members and 2 for premium members). You will receive 3 critiques of your work in return. Those who do not complete their critiques will not be eligible to win the contest.
Rights: All chapters remain the sole property of the author. After we have selected the winner we will seek permission from the author to publish the winning work on our blog. The author is under no obligation to allow this.
Notification: The prize winner will be notified by email on December 12, 2009. We will announce the prize winner on our blog on December 14, 2009.
Really I Can Do That? You can continue to work on and edit your chapter after it has been submitted. All entries will be frozen when the contest ends. We will judge the latest revision of your chapter. You only required to submit your chapter for critique once.
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September 20th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Gentlemen,
I have become a member of your club. I now wish to enter your book first chapter contest. You say, above, that I must enter my short story, and then enter my first chapter. I do not understand. I wish at this point only to enter a first chapter.
I have not understood how I enter the first chapter. I went to “submissions”, and found nothing that would enable me to enter the first chapter. Would you please enlighten me?
thank you, cordially,
Johanna Lipford
September 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am
I have corrected the “typo” in the announcement. It now reads: Upload your chapter; make sure you select “Book First Chapter Contest” as the category.
To enter your story into the contest go to http://www.reviewfuse.com/upload/ and select “Book First Chapter Contest” as the category in Step 1 of the upload process.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:26 am
[...] now, they’re running the Book First Chapters contest where you upload the first chapter of your novel and they’ll choose a winner to get $50. [...]
December 14th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Where is the winner listed?
December 14th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Have they announced winners for this yet? It is supposed to be today, I believe, but may not be looking in the right place.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:42 am
Yeah, they have. I one the competition with the chapter called Estaroth