News
The Winners of the 32nd Annual
International 3-Day Novel Contest
Monday, January 25th, 2010
We at the 3-Day Novel Contest are thrilled to announce the winners of our 32nd Annual event!
Mark Sedore
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Snowmen by Mark Sedore of Toronto, Ontario
The winning entry to the latest 3-Day Novel Contest is the story of a man who struggles to complete a record-setting trip across the Arctic Circle while his unstable and resentful brother plays a deadly game of sabotage. Snowmen will be released by 3-Day Books in August 2010. Click here for more on the winning novel and its author.
2nd PLACE WINNER
McKinley M. Hellenes of Mission, British Columbia, for Everything Will Be OK
Winning $500
3rd PLACE WINNER
Victoria Dunn of Ottawa, Ontario, for Alice’s Adventures with Welsh Zombies
Winning $100
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Miguel Burr (Vancouver, BC) for Flourescence
Keith Chittleborough (Glen Waverley, Australia) for Sheepless in Puckapunyal
Karen Cressman (Brampton, ON) for Breaking the Girl
Kimberly Davidson (Vancouver, BC) for Jabula
Alice Egoyan and Devon Motola (Fresno, CA) for 77
David Gibson (Hamilton, ON) for Cold Heaven Blonde
Barbara Gordon (Victoria, BC) for Culture Heroes
Meredith Kennedy (Palo Alto, CA) for Strange Alchemy
Edward Lineberry (Dallas, TX) for Forged Prophet
J.C. Locke (Carrboro, NC) for Big Crunch
Gavin McLachlan (Toronto, ON) for Give Up Your Self
Greg Morrison (Woodstock, VA) for The Goetist
Erica Naone (Allston MA) for Needle and Fang
Marion Stein (New York, NY) for Hungry Ghosts
T.R. White (Brampton, ON) for Billy Blue Bear
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR ENTRANTS!
The judges were pleased and impressed with the quality and originality of the submissions to this pressure-cooker event. Once again we would like to give special mention to Natasha Carr-Harris of Vancouver, our youngest entrant for the second year running and the author of The Story of St. Patrick’s Day. Special mention also to our second-youngest entrants (also in their second year), Abby Adams and Sean Vipond of Cochrane, Ontario, who teamed up to write an untitled collaborative sci-fi/fantasy novel, and to the creative writing students at Pleasant Valley Secondary School in Armstrong, B.C., who holed up at their school during the contest to complete their wonderful novels as a group.
This year’s event drew in a record 650 entrants, of whom 460 managed to complete and submit a novel. Twenty countries were represented in this year’s event, making it the most international 3-Day Novel Contest on record! Every year it is monster task for our judges to pick a few winners from the incredible works submitted to the contest and this round was no exception. We thank everyone who put their heart into this creative experience and allowed us to read the results!
For those who are interested in taking part in the next 3-Day Novel Contest, the 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest will take place September 4-6, 2010. Save the date, and ask to be added to our newsletter list so you are notified when registration opens!
3-Day News: January 13, 2010
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
3-Day Novel Newsletter
We don’t have an announcement for you yet, so we’ve put together a few newsy bits to keep you occupied in the meantime. Click here to read the latest newsletter, and bear with us until we can present a list of winners from the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest! We hope to have an announcement for you some time in the last week of January.
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Now It Can Be Told
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
BookTelevision's 3-Day Novel
After two years, we can finally congratulate Gayleen Froese, winner of the second season of the televised 3-Day Novel Contest. The season was filmed during the 2007 International 3-Day Novel Contest and, after a long process involving media mergers and licensing and other things beyond our ken, the last of 7 episodes aired on BookTelevision last night. The 12 contestants slept, ate and wrote their novels in public in a Chapters bookstore in Edmonton. Gayleen won with The Dominion, a wonderful fantasy novel that also made the 2007 3DN shortlist.
We participated in the filming and loved the experience. The producers, crew, contestants and fellow judges were great fun, and it was fascinating to be present and witness contestants writing their novels, which is something we don’t often get to see as we furiously coordinate the event from down in our secret underground bunker.
A big thanks to Gayleen and her partners in suffering: runners-up Paul Matwychuk and Matthew J. Trafford, and their excellent co-contestants Nancy Belgue, James Burns, Marty Chan, Joe Goodwill, Jennifer Isaac, Gordon Kirkland, Rebecca Shuttleworth, Lorna Sloukji and Tracy Thompson. Thanks also to the crew, to Rachel Harry, the show’s charming host, to our fellow judges Minister Faust and Todd Babiak, and to Tate Young and Rachel Sentes, who helped bring the show to fruition.
We’re not sure if BookTelevision plans to re-air either season of the show, so if you want to see it, contact them and maybe they will! You can get a taste by watching a trailer for the first season on YouTube.
Update: Another TWO countries for our contest stats
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009[This post has been updated.] We’ve heard from a second entrant who was left out of this week’s newsletter. We’re shocked to realize we left out Australia in our list of countries, along with Colombia. (A previous entrant reminded us that while his mailing address is in Canada, he wrote and submitted his novel from his birth country of Colombia.) So that’s TWO more countries to add to this year’s tally of entrants, bringing the total number of countries participating in the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest to a record 20. Twenty participating countries! (Insert Sesame Street Count-style laughter here.)
3-Day News, November 17, 2009
Tuesday, November 17th, 20093-Day Novel Newsletter
It’s time for another 3-Day update! We’ve got news about some upcoming events in Brooklyn and Milford, some statistics from the 32nd Annual contest, and a few writing events from other organizations that will keep you occupied until September 2010. Read it online here!
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Go Go Wrimos
Monday, November 16th, 2009
National Novel Writing Month
We’d like to send out some encouragement to participants in this year’s National Novel Writing Month, who have passed the halfway mark in their race to write a novel in 30 days. Sure it might seem a little laid-back to take a whole month to write a novel, but who are we to question another’s creative method? Congratulations to those who are 25,000 words in to their 50,000 word goal. To those who may be a little behind, don’t worry! Experienced 3-Dayers will tell you that you can always find a second wind in the final hours.
To those 3-Dayers who may not be familiar with the 11-year-old NaNoWriMo, you should definitely check out their website. There’s lots of great tips and tools there for staying on track while producing hasty fiction, particularly the pep talks by fans such as Lynda Barry, Gail Carson Levine and Jasper Fforde.
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