Free Humor Writing Scholarship Contest for SBWC 2018 June 17-22 

 

Yes another contest!

Enter to win a scholarship to the 46th Annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

No entry fee.

You may share this opportunity with others.

The judging team will look for overall writing excellence as well as "the funny factor."

Submissions should be between 500 and 750 words.

Limit of 2 entries per person.

Each humorous entry should be sent in a separate email and will be judged separately. 

The judges are published humorous authors. 

We do not announce the names of the judges.

To enter:

Email <sbwc.mascot@gmail.com>

This must be your original work, published or not.
Paste your writing entry and contact information into the body of the email or send an attached Word doc. 
Contact information should include:

Name
Phone number
Email address
Mailing address
There will be a full tuition day scholarship to the 2018 Santa Barbara Writers Conference awarded ($650 value).

Scholarship recipients must be able to attend the conference this year, June 17-22.
If not, the full scholarship will be awarded to the runner up.
No entry fee
Contest opens: NOW April April 29, 2018
Submission period closes MIDNIGHT, Sunday May 13, 2018 PDT

This deadline has been extended by one week due to the availability of judges.
Submission period is 1 week only

Winners announced 3rd week of May.

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Free Scholarship Contest for SBWC 2018 June 17-22

Entry period is over. Judging is taking place. 

Enter to win a scholarship to the 46th Annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference.

No entry fee.

You may share this opportunity with others.

There are 3 categories to this contest. 
 
You are welcome to enter each category, once, but please only one entry per email. 
 
Categories:

  1. Opening sentence: Limit 50 words
  2. Prose: This can be a short essay, a short story, or the opening to your novel or nonfiction project. Limit 500 words
  3. Poem: Limit 50 lines

 
The judging team will look for writing excellence appropriate to each category.
 
The judges are award winning, published authors who are associated with SBWC. 
 
We do not announce the names of the judges.
 
To enter:

Email  <sbwc.mascot@gmail.com>

  • Put the category of your entry in the subject line.
  • This must be your original work, published or not.
  • Paste your writing entry and contact information into the body of the email or send an attached Word doc. 

Contact information should include:

  • Name
  • Phone number 
  • Email address
  • Mailing address

 There will be a full tuition day scholarship to the 2018 Santa Barbara Writers Conference awarded ($650 value) for each category.

  1. Scholarship recipients must be able to attend the conference this year.
  2. If not, the full scholarship will be awarded to the runner up.
  3. No entry fee
  4. Contest opens:  NOW April 21, 2018
  5. Submission period closes MIDNIGHT, Saturday, April 28, 2018 PDT
  6. Submission period is 1 week only

 
 Winners  announced 1st week of May.

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Hooking Readers with Marla Miller

Marla Miller’s Hooking Readers with opening pages and social media strategies is the much the same workshop she has delivered since her first SBWC workshop in 2003.

What changed is the publishing industry, and for this reason Marla deleted MarketingtheMusefrom her branding strategies. Why? Since indie publishing’s debut, her workshops became linked to those offered by marketers selling their wares to writers. 

Marla has no issue with marketing per se, but story comes first. Always. 

Bring your openings, 5-10 pages, fiction or nonfiction, to Marla’s Hooking Readers workshops. Any platform building ideas that stem from story and the writer’s profile are integrated into this read and critique workshop.

From time to time guests drop by - like an agent or editor - and when this happens, we add Q & A to our workshop discussion. 

Working with both fiction and nonfiction at all levels, Marla’s workshop cross-pollinates editorial work with marketing and social media strategies to expand author platforms. All are needed in the 21st century publishing reality. In all sessions, leader and participants will listen for reader hook-ability and social-media rooted, platform-building ideas and strategies.

Workshop attendees are invited to bring openings, 5-7 pages (fiction or narrative nonfiction) and book proposals – overview, introduction and sample chapter. Query letters for critiquing are also welcomed. Bring passion for your work and the willingness to hear constructively delivered critiques.

For 16 years, Marla Miller wrote for OC Register magazine before becoming founding editor-in-chief of an O.C. lifestyle magazine. In 1999, Simon and Schuster published her first book, All American Girls, the authorized biography of the World Cup/Gold Medal winning U.S Women’s National Soccer Team. Until 2003, her sports columns appeared on Oxygen.com. 

Though she appreciates the options writers now have, Miller’s point of view remains the same: first, write the best dang story you know how to write. 

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