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, eight/nine, ten/eleven, twelve/thirteen and fourteen/fifteen, 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, 2010. Please note that the Calgary Children's Fiction Writing Award is only open to children residing within the city of Calgary.
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 and Word Counts
For children ages eight/nine and ten/eleven, your story should be approximately 1500 words minimum.
For children ages twelve/thirteen and fourteen/fifteen, your story should be approximately 3000 words minimum.
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 Friday, October 8, 2010 to be considered by our panel of judges.
Please note that registrations and story submissions will not be accepted before March 31, 2010.
Registration form
All children wishing to submit a story entry for the Children's Fiction Writing Award must be registered.
Please fill out the from below to receive your registration package.
We look forward to receiving your registration and to reading your wonderful stories submitted
for the Calgary Children's Fiction Writing Award.
Happy writing!
