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Register Now for 3-Day 2010!
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Illustration by Jonathan Adams
”An exhausting and exhilarating, horrible and wonderful, enlightening and baffling experience.”
Are you ready to try the world’s most notorious literary marathon? Registration is open for the 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. Since its beginnings as a barroom challenge in 1977, thousands of writers have put their storytelling stamina to the test with this infamous creative pressure-cooker. New this year: 3DN entrants may now register and order 3-Day Books by traditional mail or securely online through Paypal.
This year’s contest will take place Labour Day weekend, Sept. 4 - 6, 2010. Full details are on our Rules page.
Please note: 3DN has new coordinates! Mail your registration/queries to:
The International 3-Day Novel Contest
PO Box 2106, Station Terminal
Vancouver, BC, V6B 3T5 CANADA
2010 Discussion Forum
Thursday, May 27th, 2010We’ve updated the Chat Room link in the Social Box with our fresh 2010 entrants (and onlookers) discussion thread at Abebooks.com. (As in previous years, we’re keeping it at Abebooks by popular demand.) Feel free to jump in and chat with your fellow entrants about your plans for this year’s marathon!
Eccentrically We Love
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010The Fugitives, that “anything but ordinary” band featuring 2006 3-Day Novel winner Brendan McLeod, have released a new album, Eccentrically We Love. In this interview with Brendan in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight, he talks about his literary efforts and those of his bandmates, and how their writing and poetry eventually morphed into their unique slam-poetry-performance-music style.
Find their new album at the Fugitives’ website, read about Brendan’s winning 3-Day Novel, and check out the video for their great single “Breaking Promises”.
3-Day News, April 22, 2010
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
3-Day Novel Newsletter
We’ve released the latest edition of 3-Day News to help keep you occupied until we can open registration late next month. Have a look to see what some of our former entrants and winners are up to, and to find writing contest links that will hone your skills for this coming Labour Day.
Enter your email in the Social box to the right or send us a note at info@3daynovel.com to make sure you get future newsletters (sent out about every two months or so). 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.
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 Fluorescence
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, 20103-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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