PUB: Texas Book Festival - Fiction Contest

Texas Book Festival
10th Annual Fiction Contest

 

 

Information on the Contest

The Texas Book Festival (TBF) Fiction Contest is an annual writing contest open to students in grades 7 - 12 throughout the state of Texas. TBF, assisted by the University Interscholastic League, announces a theme for submissions in January of each calendar year. Students are invited to submit a piece of original fiction that is under 2,000 words in length. Submissions are sent in by teacher sponsors from the entrant’s school. TBF awards cash prizes: $250 to first place winners in three categories (7th-8th grades, 9th-10th grades, 11th-12th grades), $100 to second place, and $50 to third place.

The quality of entries the Festival receives is impressive. These students are extremely talented and have bright futures in writing. The contest is a reflection of TBF’s mission to celebrate authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas and the imagination.

 

Contest Rules

  1. Students must enter in one of three divisions: Grades 7-8, Grades 9-10 or Grades 11-12. Entrants should enter the division for which they were a student during the 2010-2011 academic year.
  2. There is no entry fee.
  3. All entries must be submitted online between April 1, 2011 and June 24, 2011.
  4. Entries must be 2,000 words or less, 12 point type, double-spaced, and written on the theme “End of Days.” Please include your name, entry title, grade level, and an automated word count on the cover page of your entry.
  5. Judges will look for excellence in use of dialogue, imagery, character development, setting, plot, conflict and resolution.
  6. Winners will be notified by October 2011.


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