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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, 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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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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3-Day News, Sept. 1, 2009
Wednesday, September 2nd, 20093-Day Novel Newsletter
We’ve posted another issue of 3-Day News. This issue gives fair warning that this is the last week to register, gives an update about changes to our upcoming events in New Haven and New York, and profiles a couple of our more extreme entrants. Read it online here!.
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3-Day News: vol. 1, issue 3
Wednesday, August 5th, 20093-Day Novel Newsletter
The latest issue of 3-Day News is online. We’ve got updates on events in Toronto, New Haven, New York and Vancouver, more success stories from past winners, tips on Twitter hashtags and links to writing contests that can warm you up before the big marathon. Read it online here.
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