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Writing Contest & Quote for Today: “How do you win a marathon? You run…”

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“How do you win a marathon? You run really fast for 26.2 miles without stopping.

Like winning a marathon, writing is easy to describe, but hard to execute.”

Henry Herz, “So You Want to Write a Picture Book for Children”, TheWriteLife.com

Following up on the title of the above article, if you are an aspiring writer of colour, living in the US, and are penchant writing children’s stories, particularly ones to which children of colour can relate, then this contest is for you:

Lee and Low’s New Voices Award

Aug-Dec 2014 | Submissions Deadlines: No Entry Fee Contests

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Who doesn’t like creative writing contests with no entry fee…Enter one with me! What harm could it do? 🙂

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Freelancewriting.com, a website dedicated to assisting writers in achieving their goals, has been in operation since 1997. The site provides writers with guidance through articles, video tutorials, reading recommendations, job listings, and contest information.

Certainly, there are many sites that offer as much or more to writers.  Freelancewriting.com, however, makes a point of sharing creative writing contests (book/fiction/nonfiction/poetry) which only have no entry fee.

In essence, Freelancewriting.com has done the proverbial work of finding the needle in the haystack. So, many thanks to them for having done that work!  It is a time-consuming task searching through hundreds of contests to find the ones that do not even try to break the bank.

So what are some  contests that they have listed?

Click on the name of the contest for details.

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