Posts Tagged ‘Toronto’
3DNC at The Word on the Street
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
The Word on the Street
Come find us in Toronto and Vancouver at The Word On The Street! This fantastic annual free festival of reading and books will be held Sunday, September 23 at Queen’s Park in Toronto and Sunday, September 30 at Library Square in Vancouver. (It’s also being held on the 23rd in Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Kitchener and Halifax, though we won’t have a booth in those towns. You should totally go anyway.)
Event Schedule for Toronto, Sept. 23
Event Schedule for Vancouver, Sept. 30
(Note that Vancouver is now a three day-event, with programming from Friday night until the street festival on Sunday.)
Come check out all the events, then find our booth, introduce yourself and pick up a copy of one of our fantastic past winning novels. We look forward to seeing you there!
3DNC News for August 2012
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
3-Day News
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OUR 35th ANNIVERSARY
Last Week for Early-Bird Registration
Want to make 2012 the year you finally kick that novel out of your head and into the world? Register today and commit yourself to this exhilarating, limit-blasting, one-of-a-kind creative event. Do it fast, because there’s only one week left to take advantage of our early-bird registration discount.
Early-Bird Registration Deadline: August 15
Final Registration Deadline: August 31
3-Day Novel Event Dates: Labour Day Weekend, September 1-3
Sign up today for our 35th annual marathon! Put your early-bird savings toward a tin of coffee to keep you up and writing through this notorious literary event.
Already signed up, or planning to? Connect with your fellow entrants at our Facebook event page or at the #3DNC Twitter hashtag.
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EVENT
Party and Book Launch in Toronto
Come join us in Toronto for a double celebration of our upcoming 35th Anniversary and the launch of Heidegger Stairwell, the gender- and genre-bending 2011 3DNC winner by Aurora author Kayt Burgess.
Heidegger Stairwell by Kayt Burgess
Details
Wednesday, August 29
7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Victory Cafe, Toronto
581 Markham Street, Upstairs
(Near Bathurst Station/Honest Ed’s. Map)
3DNC administrators and veterans will be on hand to offer advice and guidance for surviving and thriving during the contest, and Kayt Burgess will read a passage from her hot-off-the-press novel about music, identity, feuds, friendship and very, very complicated love. Everyone is welcome to this free event!
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ENTRANT NEWS
More 3DNC success stories
Have you found a home for a manuscript that was born during the 3-Day Novel Contest? Tell us about it!
The Dominion, by Gayleen Froese of Edmonton, placed during the 2007 3DNC and won 1st Prize during that year’s 3-Day Novel Contest reality TV series. This excellent fantasy novel has been picked up for publication by Candlemark & Gleam. Find out more here.
Alice Hearts Welsh Zombies has finally been released by The Workhorsery. The book, by Victoria Dunn of Ottawa, is a nutty undead military romp that won (in its first-draft form) 3rd Place in the 2009 3DNC. See a video preview at the Workhorsery website!
The rise of e-publishing has helped many 3-Day veterans release their novels as ebooks, too. Check out a few here: Rebels of the 512 by Laura Roberts (2011 participant), The Package: Nove’s Curse by Lisa Naraine (2008), Melissa’s Daughters
by Terry Leeder (2011), Dream Her Back by Brady Russell (2003), and Depth of Deception: A Titanic Murder Mystery by Alexander Gallant (2006).
Congratulations to all! Find more success stories in our past newsletters.
Launch and Celebration in Toronto
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Launch Invite
Come join us in Toronto as we launch Heidegger Stairwell, our latest 3DNC-winning novel by Aurora author Kayt Burgess. This is also your chance to help us celebrate the upcoming 35th Anniversary of the world’s most notorious literary marathon.
Details
Wednesday, August 29
7p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Victory Cafe
, Toronto
581 Markham Street, Upstairs (near Bathurst Station; map)
Everyone is invited to this free event! Meet Kayt Burgess and the contest administrators, and hear a reading from this contest-winning, gender- and genre-bending faux-biography about music, identity, feuds and friendship and very complex love. Find out more about the book.
Those who are ready to take on the Everest of literary events will also have the opportunity to register for the contest on-site, and to ask Kayt and other 3DNC experts for their best tips about surviving and thriving during the contest.
Help us spread the word! RSVP at our Facebook event page.
Toronto Event: Chiaroscuro Reading Series
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Snowmen by Mark Sedore
One great way to recover from the rigours of the 3-Day Novel Contest is to get a taste of the kind of fiction that can be conceived during the marathon—and one such opportunity is coming up in Toronto.
Our 2009 3DN winner, Mark Sedore, will read from his winning novel this Wednesday, September 14, as part of the fabulous Chiaroscuro Reading Series. This edition of the regular event, called A Chill In the Air, features Mark alongside Helen Marshall and Katherine Govier, who will each present their own dark and deliciously chilly visions of the future.
Details:
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 8pm – 11pm
Augusta House
152 Augusta Avenue, Toronto [map]
It’s a great opportunity to meet with a fellow contest survivor, so come on down!
3-Day News, October 20, 2010
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
3-Day Novel Newsletter
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.
3-Day News
Our judges are settled into comfy chairs, poring over the hundreds of novels submitted after the 33rd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. While they read and debate over the one standout that will be our next published 3-Day Book, we offer you a few statistics from this year’s marathon.
2010 3-Day Novel Entrant Statistics
Number of entrants: 669 (up from 650 in 2009)
Number of submitted novels: 477 (71%, equal to 2009)
Countries participating: 14, including Canada (378), USA (266), UK (10), Australia (3), China (2), Netherlands (2) and one each from Belgium, Germany, Monaco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Switzerland and Trinidad.
Youngest 2010 participant: 9
Youngest-ever participant: 9 (now participating for her 3rd year at 11 years old)
Oldest-known returning entrants: 86 (California) and 88 (Alberta)
Earliest year of previous entry for a returning participant: 1981
Minimum number of former shortlisters returning: 31 (including 2 past winners)
Upcoming Event
Toronto: Reading at Canzine
Mark Sedore reads from his 2009 winning novel, Snowmen,
at Canzine, Canada’s largest festival of zines and alternative culture.
Sunday, October 24
1pm – 7pm, 3DN reading at 6pm
The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto
Snowmen by Mark Sedore
Pick up a copy of Broken Pencil at the festival and check out the latest review of Snowmen. Here’s an excerpt:
“Seems straightforward, wrapped up like popular fiction. Yet, Sedore’s story takes an unexpected departure from typical style… You only have to read the first three or four chapters to appreciate Sedore’s pared down writing style, which is well matched to [the protagonist's] sharp wit.”—Brooke Ford
Other Contests and Calls of Interest
3DN 2011 is many months away, so we’ve looked up a few interesting writing contests and calls for submissions to keep your literary skills sharp until next Labour Day.
NaNoWriMo
A whole month to write a novel? Easy! If you’re planning on participating in this year’s National Novel Writing Month, check out the chat forum for 3DN veterans.
Deadline: November 30, free to enter or by donation
nanowrimo.org
Literal Literary Postcard Contest
The 7th edition of Geist magazine’s cheeky take on the postcard story.
Deadline: November 30, $20 fee (includes subscription)
geist.com
Danger Calling
Blackheart Magazine of Austin, TX, is seeking rebellious writing that other mags might find too dangerous to publish.
blackheartmagazine.com
Hospital Tales
Tightrope Books is seeking work that explores experiences and relationships with Canadian hospitals and health care for an upcoming anthology.
tightropebooks.com
Our Sponsors
UBC MFA
3DN thanks this year’s contest sponsor, the Optional-Residency MFA Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia.
See more 3-Day Novel Contest supporters, including new prize donors Videomatica and Poets & Writers.
3DN at Word on the Street
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
WOTS Vancouver
Come down and visit us at our tables at The Word on the Street in Toronto and in Vancouver this Sunday, September 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WOTS is Canada’s largest free one-day literary festival, happening simultaneously in Vancouver, Saskatoon, Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax, so if you’re anywhere near these cities, go check out this fantastic event.
Also! If you’re visiting the event in Toronto, stop by the Great Books Marquee at noon for a reading by Mark Sedore, our 2009 3-Day Novel Contest winner.
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