{"id":489,"date":"2010-01-20T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/genesis-contest-for-unpublished-authors.html"},"modified":"2010-01-20T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T11:58:00","slug":"genesis-contest-for-unpublished-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/genesis-contest-for-unpublished-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Contest For Unpublished Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S1bwamP7TyI\/AAAAAAAADRQ\/3HW-znBQY3c\/s1600-h\/acfw.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 87px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S1bwamP7TyI\/AAAAAAAADRQ\/3HW-znBQY3c\/s400\/acfw.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428790740576325410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, unpublished writers will email me, asking for advice about how to get their novels commercially published. I mention joining a writers&#8217; organization such as ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) or RWA (Romance Writers of America). I also mention entering their manuscript into a contest. This is a great way to gain feedback for your novel. If you place (or win) the contest, you may gain the attention of an agent or an editor. <\/p>\n<p>ACFW recently opened up their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acfw.com\/genesis\/\">Genesis Contest<\/a> for submissions. This contest is for unpublished Christian fiction writers. I&#8217;ve helped to judge this contest for the last few years. If you have a Christian fiction manuscript that you&#8217;re trying to get commercially published, then you might want to consider entering the Genesis. Rules and regulations are outlined in the link above!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, unpublished writers will email me, asking for advice about how to get their novels commercially published. I mention joining a writers&#8217; organization such as ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) or RWA (Romance Writers of America). I also mention entering their manuscript into a contest. This is a great way to gain feedback for your [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}