FWA Collection #7–Revisions: Stories of Starting Over Contest Winners

Another fabulous contest produced sixty winning authors bound for our seventh edition of FWA’s Collection – Revisions: Stories of Starting Over. Increasing the length of the contest from three-and-a-half months to four months, January 1st through April 30th, resulted in a total of 176 entries. This year 131 authors sent in one entry and 46 authors sent in two. Woohoo! We had ten poems entered into the contest. We are excited and pleased to announce two new records achieved in this year’s collection contest. … Read More »

Welcome, Published & Unpublished Writers: Part 2

In Part 1 of this two-part post about FWA’s Royal Palm Literary Award competition, we discussed how RPLA benefits writers at all stages of their writing journey and the value of the feedback offered to every entrant. In Part 2, here, we discuss who your judges and administrators are, how we deal with disparate scores, how we review completed rubrics, how you can suggest new genre categories, and more. So here goes. First, the judges and administrators: Our judges are … Read More »

Welcome, Published & Unpublished Writers: Part I

Quick! Where are you on your writing journey? Unpublished? Undiscovered? Famous? Beginner? Advanced? Are you where you want to be? Enter FWA’s Royal Palm Literary Awards competition (RPLA), and you’ll discover some surprising benefits. I should know; I’ve been on both sides of the RPLA desk multiple times. I’m Chris Coward, 2015 RPLA Committee Chairperson and an RPLA first-place winner. Also a multi-time RPLA loser. I learned a lot from winning—how rewarding our passion for writing can be and how … Read More »

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