The Children's Fiction Writing Award
The Calgary Children's Book Fair and Conference is proud to present the Children's Fiction Writing Award. Children in the following age categories, nine/ten, eleven/twelve and thirteen/fourteen, will unleash their own incredible imaginations to create a truly unique story, which will then be published in an anthology.
The designated genres for the award are science fiction, fantasy and mystery. The winning stories in each age group will be professionally edited, then collected into an anthology, featuring not only the story, but also a photograph and biography of the author, to be printed by our wonderful sponsors at Blitzprint. Each young author in the anthology will also receive ten complimentary copies of the anthology for friends and family. (While additional copies of the anthology may be available, these are at the expense of the winning candidate's family, who are responsible for dealing directly with Blitzprint).
The winning entries for the fiction writing award will be announced at the Calgary Children's Book Fair and Conference in November, 2012.
All entries must be received by Wednesday, October 31, 2012 to be considered by our panel of judges.
Story Genres
- Science Fiction Science fiction can include a very wide range of topics, but your story could feature secret experiments and fantastic technology, time travel and time machines, alien beings and other planets or superheroes and villains, but it's really up to you.
- Fantasy Typically, your story on this theme would include things like dragons and other mythological creatures, magical kingdoms and realms, wizards and magic, kings and queens, princes and princes, castles and palaces, enchanted objects and fabulous quests.
- Mystery In this genre, you could create a ghost story or one about another aspect of the supernatural, write about a search for a mysterious object or valuable artifact, describe an investigation into a long forgotten crime or create your very own team of young detectives.
Age Categories, Word Counts and Editing
For children ages nine/ten and eleven/twelve, your story should be approximately 1000 words minimum and up to a maximum of 2000 words.
For children ages thirteen/fourteen, your story should be approximately 1500 words minimum and up to maximum of 3000 words.
All stories must be spellchecked and proof read for errors before they are submitted.
Children must be within these age ranges when they submit their story, even if they are older at the time of the Book Fair in the fall.
Deadline and Format
All stories must be submitted as attachments by email and be in Word document format.
All entries must be received by Wednesday, October 31, 2012 to be considered by our panel of judges.
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