Contests equals Awards

Submitting your work to contests and awards is a great way to get your work noticed. Here’s a list of submission opportunities for children’s writing and illustrating. We normally only list contests that do not require an entry fee.

Also, check out these other compilations of contests:

• Sub It Club’s monthly lists of contests (see their )

Before entering a contest, pay attention to warning signs:;

Ongoing Contests & Awards

(every month, deadline 5th day of each month)

• What: Comment on the contest announcement on the 4th of each month for a chance to submit your first 400 words of an MG or YA ms
• Prize: Winner’s entry will be posted on blog & critiqued by four members of The Winged Pen
• What: monthly illustration challenge with a prompt, due 20th of each month
• Who: SCBWI members
• Prize: winning pieces featured in SCBWI’s monthly newsletter

ONGONG

• What: apply for emergency funds during the pandemic
• Who: people of color in the children’s publishing industry (agents, editors, authors, illustrators) who’ve been furloughed or lost their jobs
• Award: emergency funds

OCTOBER

Oct. 1 -3

• What: write a kid lit-aged (board book to YA) story/poem/piece up to 200 words based on a fall-themed photo prompt
• Prizes: win critiques, books, and other prizes from authors, agents and editors

Oct. 20

• What: Twitter pitch party for children & teen fiction/nonfiction
• Who: for self-identifying historically marginalized authors & illustrators
• Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query

Sept. 20-Oct 20

• What: submit three sequential images illustrating the theme “silver lining” either in full color for PB audience, or B&W for MG audience
• Who: SCBWI members
• Prize: free tuition virtual SCBWI winter conference

Oct. 29

• What: Twitter pitch party for picture book creators (illustrators and authors)
• Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query

Oct. 1–31

• What: apply for one of 15 mentorships with award-winning book creators (12 writers, 3 illustrators)
• Who is eligible: anyone who personally identifies with an underrepresented community or working on a book with a diverse protagonist
• When to apply: Oct 1–30, 2020

Sept. 15-Oct. 31

• What: apply to win full tuition to the 2021 SCBWI LA conference plus expert consultations
• Who: SCBWI member with a MG or YA manuscript
• Prize: tuition to 2021 SCBWI conference, 20 minute consultation with agent Tracey Adams, 20 minute consultation with a MG/YA editor

NOVEMBER

Aug 16- Nov. 1

• What: submit a short story aimed at the middle grade audience that centers joy and features and centers Black boys ❤000 words
• Who: Black male/nonbinary author over 18, un-agented, not traditionally published
• Award: inclusion in a soon-to-be-announced MG anthology that will center the joy of Black boyhood, edited by Kwame Mbalia

Nov. 1

• What: Apply for a $500 grant
• Who: mothers with at least one child
• Award: three grants given every six months

Nov. 1

• What: one of two winners to share a $3,000 grant
• Who: SCBWI members who have published two PAL books but have not sold anything in five years
• Prize: a $3000 grants shared between two winners

Sept 15- Nov 15

• What: apply to one of ten grants
• Who: unpublished writers or illustrators from underrepresented group
• Award: paid trip and tuition for LA SCBWI summer conference, manuscript consultation, and publicity

DECEMBER

Dec. 3, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. EST

• What: Pitch your manuscript on Twitter (PB, MG, YA, adult)
• Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query

now-Dec. 15

• What: Nominate a 2020 trade book published in the US with environmental themes
• Award: Four awards of $1,000 to four categories (PB, MG, YA, nonfiction). Award split between author and illustrator where appropriate.

2022

Mar 12, 2022

• What: win an award for a book of poetry published in English
• Who: SCBWI member with a book of poetry published in 2019, 2020, or 2021 (Verse novels not eligible)
• Award: $1,000

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How to Set Up Google Analytics — Tutorial for Beginners 2020

How to Set Up Google Analytics — Tutorial for Beginners 2020

Set up & install Google Analytics on ALL websites (WordPress, Wix, Shopify etc.) Tutorial for Beginners.

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А що каже Біблія. Вражаюча точність рукописів Біблії. Біблійна археологія

А що каже Біблія. Тема 3: Вражаюча точність рукописів Біблії

Скільки помилок накопичив текст Біблії за тисячі років переписування? Що говорять про це літературознавці, історики, науковці та дослідники Святого Письма? Чи можна довіряти сучасному тексту Біблії та будувати на ньому свою віру?

Music: And What Says The Bible — Gromezis

Amazing Grace — KevinMacLeod

Shout To The Lord — Phillip Keveren

Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus — David Angell

А що каже Біблія. Тема 4: Біблійна археологія

“Можна із повною впевненістю стверджувати, що жодне археологічне відкриття ще ніколи не суперечило даним Біблії”. — Нельсон Глюк “Старозаповітна археологія заново відкрила цілі народи, воскресила важливі племена і найбільш вражаючим чином заповнила історичні прогалини, безмірно збагативши наші знання тла, на якому розгорталися біблійні події”. — Доктор наук Меррілл Унгер

Music:

And What Says The Bible — Yaroslav Petrenko

Forever Yours — Wayne Jones

Joy to the World — Jingle Punks

Light Thought var 3 — Kevin MacLeod

Lost In Prayer — Doug Maxwell

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5 asteroids buzz by Earth TODAY, as NASA gears up for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu

With just 73 days left in 2020, NASA has published an alert that not one, but five asteroids are passing by Earth today, as the agency’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft prepares to touch down on a space rock 200 million miles away.

The first three of the day’s five space rocks have mercifully passed the Earth by without incident, according to the Asteroid Watch Widget that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to our planet.

2020 TJ6, measuring 10m in diameter or roughly half a bowling lane, passed the planet at a blistering speed of 40,824kph, but at a safe distance of 1.2 million km. The asteroid was followed by 2020 UX, the tiniest out of the five, which passed the Earth at 190,000km, and 2020 TD6, with a diameter of 7.4m or half the height of the Hollywood Sign.

NASA

Still to come are the 14-meter 2020 UK, with a diameter roughly the length of a semitrailer, which is expected to fly past at 6.2 million km.

Bringing up the rear will be the fastest space rock of the day, the one-meter-wide 2020 TF6, which will shoot by at a speed of 43,200kph, just 153,000km away — well within the range of the Moon which orbits the Earth at an average of 385,000km.

asteroid

None of these compare with humanity’s own extreme close flyby expected to take place on Tuesday at the Bennu asteroid located over 200 million miles from Earth on that day.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt at collecting a sample of the space rock shortly before 2pm ET on Tuesday. The craft is expected to touch down for just a few seconds, long enough for its robotic arm to blast the surface with high pressure gas and vacuum up some of the asteroid’s space dust for analysis back here on Earth.

“We’re cautiously optimistic that this will be the only time we touch the surface,” said Richard Burns, the OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center first on.

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Ireland to put nation under ‘Europe’s strictest’ quarantine for six weeks amid record daily…

Ireland to put nation under ‘Europe’s strictest’ quarantine for six weeks amid record daily Covid-19 infections

Dublin has decided to impose a national lockdown for six weeks that has been described by the Irish government itself as the harshest in Europe — all to curb the spread of Covid-19 that has been topping record levels for days.

Under the newly announced measures that are scheduled to come into force starting midnight Wednesday, all non-essential retail stores will be shut down while restaurants and pubs will have to reduce their work to take-away services only.

The people in Ireland would also be barred from traveling more than five kilometers away from their homes. Yet, unlike many other European nations, Ireland does not plan to shut down schools. Essential services such as construction will be exempted from the lockdown as well. As will be hotels — but only if their rooms are rented by people working in any “essential” sectors.

“In the effort to suppress the virus, we’ve already introduced what is probably Europe’s strictest regime,” Prime Minister Micheal Martin said in a televised address on Monday.

The government has decided that the evidence of a potentially grave situation arising in the weeks ahead is now too strong.

The move comes just two weeks after Dublin dismissed a “surprise” call by the nation’s health authorities to introduce the highest — fifth — level of restrictions amid the growing infection numbers.

The nation has already topped its autumn record for daily new Covid-19 cases five times over the last nine days, although the numbers still remain lower that those recorded on April 10 when the infections surpassed 1,500 in a single day, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Ireland is no stranger to harsh measure when it comes to combating the epidemic. Back in spring, it also imposed one of the longest lockdowns in Europe and eased the restrictions at such a low pace that some hospitality venues have barely managed to reopen by the time the rising infection numbers forced the authorities to bring the curbs back.

To help its economy survive the epidemic, Dublin poured additional funds into coronavirus-related jobless payments and wage subsidies. A new budget approved last week involves one of the biggest financial aid packages in the nation’s history, including payments of up to € 5,000 ($5,884.50) per week for affected businesses. Still, the number of people seeking jobless payments has increased by 20 percent over just two weeks and reached 244,153 first on.

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Create a Google Analytics Page View Tag with Google Tag Manager

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