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
- 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.
- There is no entry fee.
- All entries must be submitted online between April 1, 2011 and June 24, 2011.
- 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.
- Judges will look for excellence in use of dialogue, imagery, character development, setting, plot, conflict and resolution.
- Winners will be notified by October 2011.
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