Highlights 2008 Fiction Contest

Source: Children Come First
http://www.childrencomefirst.com/highlights.shtml

PRESS RELEASE
Highlights 2008 Fiction Contest
By staff writer, 01.25.08

PLEASE NOTE: The deadline to submit to the Highlights 2008 Fiction Contest is past. Authors who want to submit their writing to Highlights for Children may check the Highlights for Children Current Needs article. If you'd like to keep up with news and information posted to the CCF site, subscribe to our free electronic bulletin.

Many of the entries we have received for the CCF Online writing contest were of high caliber and a number of them were future themed. We felt some of the entries would qualify for the Highlights 2008 Fiction Contest so we wrote Highlights asking whether they would accept entries that had been published to the CCF site.

We heard back from Marileta Robinson, Senior Editor, Highlights for Children. Ms. Robinson wrote us that they didn't have a problem accepting stories for the Fiction Contest that had only been posted on the CCF web site. Ms. Robinson asked that if you are submitting an entry that was previously posted to the CCF site that you would mention that in your cover letter.

So...with Highlights' permission and blessing, if you wrote and submitted to the CCF contest you can take that entry, dust it off, make it future-themed if it's not already, and send it off to Highlights! Make sure you mention in your cover letter that it was first posted to the CCF site, as Ms. Robinson requests you do. The Highlights contest is open to both published and yet-to-be-published writers so even if you've not participated in writing contests in the past, why not give this one a try?

Here's info on the Highlights Fiction Contest: There are three prizes of $1000 each. The deadline is January 31st and the theme is set in the future! Here's the link and we think many of you receiving this news release should go ahead and submit. We just may try it ourselves. http://tinyurl.com/y6bfqp

The HIGHLIGHTS contest calls for stories set in the future. The World Future Society has published an article titled Top 10 Forecasts for 2008 and Beyond. Use the article's ideas to get the writing juices going. Read one of the ten ideas, place your characters in that scenario, close your eyes and see what they do. Then write what you see, keep it under 800 words (under 500 for younger readers) and send it in to Highlights before January 31st.

Let us know If you submit to this contest so we can all keep toes and fingers crossed for you. :-)

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