The International 3-Day Novel Contest

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The World's Most Notorious Literary Marathon

Can you produce a masterwork of fiction in a mere 72 hours? The International 3-Day Novel Contest is your chance to find out. The contest has run every Labour Day Weekend since 1977 and now attracts writers from all over the world. It's a thrill, a grind, and an awesome creative experience. How many crazed plotlines, coffee-stained pages, pangs of doubt and moments of genius will the next contest bring forth? And what might you think up under pressure?

Registration is now open for the 33rd Annual 3-Day Novel Contest. See the rules + registration page, story and FAQ, then email us at info@3daynovel.com with questions or to join our mailing list.

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August 26th, 2010

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3DN in WE and the Epoch Times

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WE cover photo

Two great articles and interviews with past and current entrants showed up in today’s urban weeklies. Steven Schelling of WE in Vancouver profiles a newbie, a veteran and a past winner in this week’s issue, and the Epoch Times interviews Mark Sedore about his winning novel, Snowmen (which launches tonight in Toronto!).

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August 24th, 2010

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News and updates from 3-Day Novel, delivered every two months or so. To sign up, send an email to info@3daynovel.com with the subject line “subscribe”. If you already subscribe and didn’t receive it, check your spam box and add 3_Day_Novel_Contest@mail.vresp.com to your “not spam” list.

Last Call to Register

There’s just over a week left to register for the 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. Sign up today to test your creative chops, shake off writer’s block and earn literary bragging rights. Register online or by mail, or in person at one of these upcoming events:

Toronto: Thursday, August 26
7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m
The Victory Cafe, 581 Markham St., upstairs (map)
Launch of Snowmen by Mark Sedore and 3DN pep rally

Vancouver: Friday, September 3
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Kafka’s Coffee, 2525 Main St. (map)
Registration drop-off and entrant meet-and-greet

News & Updates

Quentin Mills-Fenn of Winnipeg’s Uptown Review says Snowmen, our latest 3-Day Books release, is “really quite good… Sedore has produced a gripping and satisfying story which betrays no clue to its origins.”

Congratulations to long-time Vancouver entrant Christopher Meades, who made the 2007 3DN shortlist with his novel, The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark. An expanded version of his original draft has been released by ECW Press and is now available in bookstores. Read an excerpt at the ECW website.

And we’ve heard two more 3-Day Novel success stories! Sandy Lender found a home for her 2009 3DN manuscript, Problems on Eldora Prime, with NWP, and Lisa Naraine expanded her 2008 entry, The Package, and the revised version was recently accepted by Transit Medias. Congratulations to both contest veterans.

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August 21st, 2010

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Vancouver Registration Drop-off

Kafka's Coffee

Kafka's Coffee

Vancouverites: Looking to enter last-minute? Want to meet and greet some fellow entrants, or find out more about the contest? Or do you just want to save a stamp? We’ll be holding our annual registration drop-off on the eve of the contest at Kafka’s Coffee on Main Street. Come on by with your registrations and questions (or, if you’ve already registered, come on by anyway to say hi).

Friday, September 3rd
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Kafka’s Coffee and Tea, 2525 Main St. (map)

*Note!: Please do not leave registrations at Kafka’s outside of this time. If you can’t make it, drop your form in a mailbox or register online.

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August 18th, 2010

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Advance review for Snowmen

A nice advance review has come out just in time to greet the release of our most recent 3-Day Book, Snowmen by Mark Sedore. Uptown Magazine, the Winnipeg arts weekly, calls Snowmen “gripping and satisfying” and “a fast-paced read.” (It was a fast-paced write, too.) Read the whole review here, then order your own copy or ask for it at your favourite library or bookstore.

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July 24th, 2010

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The Vancouver Sun on Jan Underwood

The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun

Last weekend,

Rebecca Wigod, the books editor at the Vancouver Sun, joined Jan Underwood, Will Ferguson, Kathy Buckworth, T.J. Dawe, Hal Wake and other great writers and thinkers to discuss the art and craft of humour writing at the 2010 Symposium on the Book at the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops in Vancouver. In this week’s Saturday Sun, Wigod talks about the event, and about Jan’s presentation on the 11 principles of good written humour.

(If you want to see Jan put her 11 principles to work, grab a copy of Day Shift Werewolf, her very funny 2005 winning 3-Day Novel entry.)

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July 14th, 2010

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3-Day News, July 14, 2010

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News and updates from 3-Day Novel, delivered every two months or so. To sign up, send an email to info@3daynovel.com with the subject line “subscribe”. If you already subscribe and didn’t receive it, check your spam box and add 3_Day_Novel_Contest@mail.vresp.com to your “not spam” list.

Have You Registered Yet?

Register now for 3DN 2010! The 33rd Annual 3-Day Novel Contest takes place September 4-6, 2010. Find rules and registration forms here.

3DN Events in Vancouver & Toronto

Jan Underwood at the SFU Symposium on the Book
Vancouver, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hasting Street
Sunday, July 18, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.</p>

Jan Underwood, winner of the 2005 3-Day Novel Contest, will join an amazing panel (including Will Ferguson, Hal Wake, Rebecca Wigod, Mark Leiren-Young and Mark Critch from This Hour Has 22 Minutes) to talk about the art and craft of humour writing at the 2010 Symposium on the Book. The $75 admission to the all-day event includes copies of the books from all participating authors; here’s a great opportunity to get Jan’s hilarious winning novel, Day Shift Werewolf. Register at www.ccsp.sfu.ca/pubworks.

Book Launch and Pep Rally
Toronto, the Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street, Upstairs
Thursday, August 26, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Join us at the Victory Cafe in Toronto for the launch of the latest 3-Day Book and to cheer on local entrants to the upcoming 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. Mark Sedore will offer tips for surviving and excelling at the world’s most notorious literary marathon and read from his contest-winning tale of brotherly betrayal and arctic survival. 3DN personnel will be on hand to answer questions, take registrations, comfort the nervous and hand out some fun prizes.

Questions or comments? Email info@3daynovel.com.

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