Authors and Their Books: Writer Advice Wants To Read Your Scintillating Start

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Curious about how your opening might sound to an agent or editor? Enter Writer Advice’s SCINTILLATING STARTS Contest for fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction. Grab and hold us with your opening paragraphs. Send us up to 1000 words of your first chapter by 12/01/17.

We are known for our feedback, as you can see in the tan box at www.writeradvice.com, and would love to tell you what's working and what an agent might say. Guest judges will be last year’s winners. Complete details and the submittable link are in the tan box on the home page at www.writeradvice.com.

If your work is shared on Writer Advice, you’ll be able to tell prospective agents, publishers, and book buyers that you were one of the winners of Writer Advice’s Scintillating Starts Contest. A cash award of $300 will be split among those whose work is shared. The submission fee is $16.50. This contest is open to anyone who has not signed a contract for the book submitted.

Questions? Please write back using the contact form on Writer Advice.