I moved to the Bay area in 2020, a week before the COVID shutdown. Ironically, this provided time and opportunity to concentrate on my book: The Creole Incident. As I prepared the book for presentation: editing, query letters, synopsis of the book, ‘about the author,’ etc., I realized I needed guidance. This led to an
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Time to Polish your Prose and Enter the San Francisco Writing Contest!
Time to Polish your Prose and Enter the San Francisco Writing Contest! Each year hundreds of writers spend a bit of extra effort over the holidays to polish the first 1,500 words of a short story, article, novel, nonfiction book, flash fiction, or other piece of writing and enter it into the prestigious San Francisco
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The 2020 San Francisco Writing Contest is now live on SFWriters.org! The three categories are: Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction/Memoir and Children’s/YA Writing. The fee is $35 per entry. The winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at the 2020 SFWC. For more details on the SFWC Writing Contest CLICK HERE https://sfwriters.org/2020-writing-contest-overview/
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2019 San Francisco Writing Contest Winners
FICTION 1. The Mustangs by Juana Olga Barrios 2. Fox Loses Three Times by Molly Emmons NONFICTION Landing in Cuba by Anne Woods The Intruder by Bridget Burke CHILDRENS/YA Passing Strange by Mina Witteman The Secret Life of Plants by Julie Zigoris GRAND PRIZE WINNER Paperboy by Emily Catherine Hughes
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The Shorter The Better-San Francisco Writing Contest
Short pieces of prose are both playgrounds and workshops and I have a habit of writing at least a single page of polished prose of precisely 336 words every day. Concise compositions are the connective tissue of the writer’s craft—a chapter, a page, a paragraph, and a sentence, tell a tale that connects to a
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