Category Archives: contests

Amazon breakthrough novelist award

If you’ve been thinking you might want to read some of those Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award entries but don’t know where to start, may I recommend The Stars Here Are…

Ah, Amazonia

Yesterday I popped into the english department’s 4th floor grad-student-only computer lab, slightly winded (as usual), in a hurry (as usual). One of my colleagues turned from her monitor, crisp…

Free! Free Food for Millionaires

I’ve got a lovely hardcover copy of Min Jin Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires waiting for you. The book chronicles Korean-American Casey Han after she’s graduated from Princeton….

Why not team with Zoetrope?

Touchstone/Fireside books, part of Simon & Schuster, has launched a writing contest through the social networking site Gather.com. Gather, which tells the NY Times it wants to be”MySpace for grownups,”…

Carter beats the fiction contest

The Burnside Review of Portland, Oregon is having its first fiction contest. The judge? Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil. Entries are due 12/31. Whaddaya get? Bound…