{"id":1175,"date":"2022-07-30T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1175"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:55:29","slug":"f-flash-500s-a-novel-opening-contest","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/f-flash-500s-a-novel-opening-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"F &#8211; Flash 500&#8217;s a &#8220;Novel Opening&#8221; Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our Novel Opening &amp; Synopsis Competition!<\/p>\n<p>Have you started, or completed, a novel with strong, credible characters and a page turning plot? Have you honed the first chapters? Can you put together a compelling synopsis? Yes? Then why not enter our Novel Opening competition and have your work judged by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.headline.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><b>Headline Publishing<\/b><\/a>? We welcome published, self-published and unpublished novelists. The only stipulation is that the\u00a0<b>entry must be unpublished<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for a novel opening up to 3,000 words, plus a synopsis\u00a0 of the story (max 750 words) to be submitted together in a single file. If your first chapter is longer than 3,000 words, DO NOT SUBMIT A LONGER MANUSCRIPT.\u00a0Simply close the entry within the 3,000 word limit and make a note at the end (which will not be included in the word count) stating the chapter continues beyond this point.<\/p>\n<p><b>Entry fee:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a310 for one novel, \u00a318 for two novels, \u00a326 for three novels<\/p>\n<p><b>Optional critique of one chapter and Synopsis:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a325 per story<\/p>\n<p><b>Prizes will be awarded as follows:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>First:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a3500<\/li>\n<li><b>Runner up:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a3200<\/li>\n<li><b>General Rules<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Entries must be in English.<\/li>\n<li>Entries must be the work of the entrant and must not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Entries may have appeared online in private (password protected) peer review sites, but should not have been published in any commercial online form including blogs or personal websites.<\/li>\n<li>The competition is international and welcomes non-UK entrants.<\/li>\n<li>Copyright remains with the author.<\/li>\n<li>The decision of the judges is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.<\/li>\n<li>The closing date for entries is midnight (UK time) on the 31st October. Winners will be notified by email within six weeks of each closing date.<\/li>\n<li>The results of the competition will be published on the competition website.<\/li>\n<li><b>Chapters must not exceed 3,000 words and must be accompanied by a synopsis (750 word max).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Manuscripts must not show the name or address of the entrant, but must include the title.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Entries should be submitted via the entry form as a Microsoft Word Document (.doc or .docx), OpenDocument Text (.odt), Rich Text File (.rtf), or PDF (.pdf).<\/li>\n<li>Entries will not be accepted without payment.<\/li>\n<li>No corrections will be accepted or refunds given.<\/li>\n<li>Entries not complying with competition rules will be disqualified.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great way to know the impact of your opening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3],"class_list":["post-1175","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-contest","cat_contest"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}