19 Oct 2019

And the Winners Are …

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Woohoo! The winners of the 2019 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition have been announced, and what a list! It was all a big secret until the ceremony October 19, during the Florida Writer Association’s (FWA) four-day annual conference in Altamonte Springs, Florida. RPLA is a service of the FWA  established to recognize excellence in members’ published and unpublished works while providing objective and constructive written assessments for all entrants. This year’s competition, which received 513 qualified submissions, was RPLA’s … Read More »
10 Sep 2019

Who Made the RPLA Finals?

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Drum roll! The scores are in, and the finalists have been named for the 2019 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition. Winners will be announced at the Awards Banquet October 19, 2019, which is held during the annual Florida Writers Conference that runs from October 17-20. The banquet is a big deal, with winners’ pictures flashed on giant screens and all kinds of fanfare. If you’re registered for the whole conference or just for Saturday,  the banquet is included. You may … Read More »
5 Nov 2018

And the 2018 RPLA Winners Are…

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Woohoo! The winners of the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition have been announced, and what a list! It was all a big secret until the ceremony October 20, during FWA’s four-day annual conference in Altamonte Springs, Florida. This year’s RPLA, which received 420 qualified submissions, was RPLA’s seventeenth. The spectacular event covered 26 adult genres and 5 youth genres. Grand Awards completed the program: Published Book of the Year: Beached, Mystery OR Crime, by Micki Browning Unpublished Book … Read More »
21 Oct 2018

2018 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners Announced

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We have winners! It is our great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition. Huge congratulations to everyone who won, finaled, or entered! Download lists of winners with loglines here: 2018 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners 2018 Royal Palm Literary Award Youth Winners The Royal Palm Literary Awards competition is a service of the Florida Writers Association established to recognize excellence in members’ published and unpublished works while providing blind, objective, and constructive written … Read More »
13 Sep 2018

Who Made the RPLA Finals?

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Drum roll! The scores are in, and the finalists have been named for the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition. RPLA is a service of the Florida Writers Association established to recognize excellent in members’ published and unpublished works while providing objective and constructive written assessments for all entrants. RPLA covers some 26 genre-categories for adults and 5 for youth. The categories cross the broad areas of fiction and nonfiction—short works and book-length, as well as poetry, plays, and submissions … Read More »
21 Oct 2017

2017 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners Announced

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Huge congratulations to the 2017 winners of the Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition! This year RPLA accepted entries in 26 adult and 15 youth genre-categories, with published and unpublished works considered separately. In addition to the individual genre awards, grand prizes were conferred for Published Book of the Year, Unpublished Book of the Year, and Best Children’s Book. Great job, all! Download the lists of winners: 2017 Adult RPLA Winners 2017 Youth RPLA Winners  

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