Valerie Parv Award Finalists

With trumpets blaring, please welcome our finalists in this year’s Valerie Parv award for unpublished novelists.  This contest, for a year of mentoring with Valerie Parv, is always hotly contested and this year, so hotly that we have seven finalists, as there was a tie for 6th place.  Here they are, in alphabetical order:

Rowena Candlish
Karina Coldrick
Audrey Ford
Enisa Haines
Anne Merrick
Anne Prince
Tricia Sargant

Congratulations to all the finalists and best of luck with Valerie.  Thanks to Erica Hayes for co-ordinating the contest, to Valerie for final judging (and being the prize) and all the volunteers who make our contest season possible.

Selling Synopsis Results

The results are in for our Selling Synopsis competition!

Congratulations to our three place-getters and to all who entered.  Synopses aren’t easy for most writers, but a very handy skill.  Good on you for having a go, those who did!

Thanks, as always, to all our volunteers who make our contests happen and to Joel Naoum of Momentum for being our final judge for this one.

And now, a drumroll please for….

First Place: Margaret Swan

Second Place: Nicole Grant

Third Place: Enisa Haines

Applause and Kermit flails to you all!

Emerald Long – Second Round

And today it’s time to announce the clever people whose entries are through to the second round of the long section of the Emerald!  Congratulations and best of luck to:

Amy Rose Bennett (with 2 entries making the cut!)

TK Florence

Marilyn Forsyth

Enisa Haines

Euphrasia Holmes

Marnie Maclean

Erin Moira O’Hara

Kerrie Paterson

Cassandra Samuels

Belinda Williams

Thanks to our judges, contest co-ordinator Gemma McBride, contest overseer Leisl Leighton and judge co-ordinator Margaret Midwood for their tireless voluntary efforts in making the contests run.

 

Selling Synopsis Finalists

We are pleased to announce the finalists in RWA’s Selling Synopsis contest.  Congratulations to (in alphabetical order):

Nicole Grant

Enisa Haines

Morag Hutton

Erin Moira O’Hara

Tricia Sargant

Margaret Swan

The final entries will now go to Joel Naoum from Momentum for judging.

Best of luck to all the finalists and thanks as always to all the RWA volunteers who make our contest season possible, particularly Leisl Leighton, Margaret Midwood and all our volunteer judges.

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