***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 11, 2025! FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to the 2025 First Pages Contest. Contest #2 of this year is for writers of Adult Romance, Adult Historical Fiction, and Adult Women's Fiction. If you write in any of these genres (or a combo!), keep reading and submit your work! This free contest ends on Feb. 11, 2025 [UPDATED, EXTENDED DEADLINE]. Here’s how it works: We invite awesome literary agents to judge the contest. The agents pick the genre(s) they want to judge. Writers in that genre are invited to send in their first page as part of the competition. Winners get a fabulous critique from your agent judge. It’s free to enter. Sound good? Then let’s get to some details and rules! There are two additional contests happening now in January 2025 -- one for writers of young adult fiction, and one for writers of adult science fiction & fantasy. DATES AND GENRE SPECIFICS: 2025 Contest #2: You have until Feb. 11, 2025 to submit to the contest. [EXTENDED, UPDATED DEADLINE] This contest is only for writers of adult romance, adult historical fiction, and adult women's fiction. The agent judge has three weeks from the contest’s end to judge all entries. Then we will inform the winners and post the names here on this blog post. PRIZES: The agent judge will pick three winners (in no particular order). All three winners are invited to send their first 5 double-spaced pages to the judge for a critique. If you've ever wanted to know what an agent is thinking when they read your submission, this critique is a great way to learn just that. OUR SOCIAL MEDIA REQUIREMENTS: Although the contest is free to enter, in order to be considered, you must fulfill our social media requirements. For every submission, you must spread word of this contest twice through social media — Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or something comparable. In other words, you just have to share news of it online, twice, to spread the word. When you e-mail your submission, make sure you include some kind of way for us to understand you have followed these guidelines. If you have shared news on Facebook, include a link to your status. If you have shared news of it on BlueSky, you can take a screenshot or send us a link of that status update, etc. An easy way to notify us is to tag us. Here is my personal Facebook page to tag me. Or you can tag us on Twitter/X: @writingdaywksp Or you can tag us on Instagram: @writingdaywksp Find us on Blue Sky here. Find us on Threads here. If you use Twitter/X, put our handle at the middle or the end, not at the very beginning of the tweet, or else the tweet will be invisible to others. (Please note that simply tweeting me does not count. You have to include the contest URL with your mention; that’s the point.) If you want to share news of the contest on the same social media platform, try and spread your mentions out, because two mentions at the same time will not help spread the word. Separate them by at least a day. Here is text that can be copied and used: New FREE contest for writers of romance, historical fiction, and women's fiction — https://tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon2 — Judged by agent Brandy Vallance, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work. If you belong to a writing group that may be interested in this contest, feel free to tag them on Twitter by using their handle when tweeting the news. ![]() THE AGENT JUDGE: Brandy Vallance is a Literary Agent at Barbara Bova Literary Agency. She represents historical fiction, romance (primarily historical), literary fiction, YA, Christian fiction, fantasy and sci-fi. Brandy is an author as well as an agent. Check out her personal books below. Her novel, THE COVERED DEEP, was praised by James Scott Bell, Jerry B. Jenkins, and more. Book pitch: Bianca Marshal is looking for a man who can quote Jesus and Shakespeare. Not surprisingly, that man is hard to find in the small Appalachian town where she lives. Her mother insists that Bianca lower her standards. One the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Bianca wonders if her mother is right. Still set on experiencing love, or at least a little adventure, Bianca wins an essay contest that propels her into a whirlwind search for the perfect romantic hero. Via the opulence of London and the mysteries of Palestine, Bianca's true love will be revealed--but not without a price that might be too heavy to pay. If you want to meet Brandy in person, she will be at 2025 writers conferences in Charleston, SC; Birmingham, AL; and Atlanta, GA. SUBMIT TO CONTEST #2 OF 2025: Submit your manuscript’s first double-spaced page, via email, to [email protected] 300 words of manuscript text, maximum. Do not attach your page. Just copy and paste the page into the body of your email. At the beginning of the email, before you paste your first page, we need to know:
Self-published novels are not eligible for this contest. Unpublished (new) material only, please. You may submit more than one submission; however, you are encouraged to only submit your best work. FINAL NOTES: By e-mailing your entry, you are submitting an entry for consideration in this contest and thereby agreeing to the terms written here. If you have questions or concerns, write me personally at writingdayworkshops [at] gmail.com. The Gmail account of [email protected] is for submissions, not questions. This contest buys no rights; so even if you win, you can still do whatever you like with the work. We do not acquire or own or publish anything. Good luck! Make sure you fulfill the submission requirements to be considered — i.e., do NOT skip the social media requirements. Attend a writers conference in 2025:
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