5th
Annual YA Novel Discovery Contest
Serendipity Literary Agency in
conjunction with Sourcebooks Inc. is hosting their fifth annual Young Adult Novel
Discovery Competition.
No query? No pitch? No
problem!
Have a young
adult novel—or a YA novel idea—tucked away for a rainy day? Are you putting off
pitching your idea simply because you’re not sure how to pitch an agent? No
problem! All you have to do is submit the first 250 words of your novel
and you can win exposure to editors and a review of your manuscript from one of
New York’s TOP young adult literary agents, Regina Brooks.
NOVEMBER IS NaNoWriMo
In honor of National
Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org)—an international event where
aspiring novelists are encouraged to write an entire novel in 30 days—this
contest is meant to encourage the aspiring YA author to get started on that
novel by offering an incentive for completing the first 250 words.
GREAT PRIZES
The Grand Prize Winner will have the opportunity to submit an entire manuscript to YA literary agent Regina Brooks AND receive a free, 10-week writing course, courtesy of Gotham Writers' Workshop, plus a collection of gourmet teas from Possibiliteas.co!
The Top Five Entrants (including the Grand Prize winner) will receive a 15-minute, one-on-one pitch session with Regina Brooks, one of New York’s premier literary agents for young adult books. They will also receive commentary on their submissions with editors from Scholastic, Feiwel and Friends, Random House, Little Brown, Kensington, Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and Sourcebooks. In addition, they will receive a year’s subscription to The Writer magazine!
The Grand Prize Winner will have the opportunity to submit an entire manuscript to YA literary agent Regina Brooks AND receive a free, 10-week writing course, courtesy of Gotham Writers' Workshop, plus a collection of gourmet teas from Possibiliteas.co!
The Top Five Entrants (including the Grand Prize winner) will receive a 15-minute, one-on-one pitch session with Regina Brooks, one of New York’s premier literary agents for young adult books. They will also receive commentary on their submissions with editors from Scholastic, Feiwel and Friends, Random House, Little Brown, Kensington, Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and Sourcebooks. In addition, they will receive a year’s subscription to The Writer magazine!
First 50 Entrants will receive a copy of Writing Great Books for Young Adults by Regina Brooks.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: The rules of the contest are
simple and entering is easy. Submit
entries of ONLY the first 250 words of your manuscript and the title via the
contest website at http://tinyurl.com/YAContest13
One
entry per person; anyone age 14+ can apply. Open to the U.S. & Canada (void
where prohibited). Entries for the YA Novel Discovery Contest will be accepted
from 12:01am (ET) November 1st, 2013 until 11:59pm November 30th,
2013 (ET).
YA literary agent Regina Brooks and her team will read all of the entries and determine the top 20 submissions. These submissions will then be read by Deidre Jones Little Brown, Nicole Raymond Candlewick, Aubrey Poole Sourcebooks, Kendra Levin Viking Penguin, Mercedes Fernandez Kensington, Annie Nybo Simon and Schuster, Erica Finkel Abrams Books, Monica Jean Random House, Catherine Laudone Simon and Schuster, Stacey Friedberg Penguin Group, Paula Sadlet Random House, Laura Whitaker Bloomsbury, Anna Roberts Feiwel and Friends. These judges will whittle the top 20 down to five, and each of the five winners will be provided commentary on their submissions.
PREVIOUS
WINNERS: Previous winners are being published by major houses and many have
received representation.
2012 winner
Last year’s winner, Lori Goldstein (www.lorigoldsteinbooks.com), received a two book deal. Her first book BECOMING JINN will be published by Feiwel
and Friends.
2010
winner
“ I ended up signing with an
agent, and she sold the book to Candlewick's Nicole Raymond, who served as one
of the judges of the 2010 YA Novel Discovery Contest. Breakfast Served Anytime is slated for publication in Spring 2014.” Sarah V. Combs
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