{"id":3220,"date":"2016-05-17T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2016-05-19T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:22:22","slug":"35000-book-contest-from-penguin-we-need-diverse-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/35000-book-contest-from-penguin-we-need-diverse-books\/","title":{"rendered":"$35,000 Book Contest from Penguin &#038; We Need Diverse Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penguin Young Readers, in partnership with We Need Diverse Books\u2122 is hosting a book contest with a $35,000 prize and a book contract. They&#8217;re specifically looking for ethnicially diverse writers writing for children aged 8-14.<\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely no entry fee.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submission is June 21, 2016. According to their website, the contest is open to &#8220;to people of color (or those who self-identify as other than white) who are residents of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and possessions, aged 18 and older.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Books submitted should be 25,000 to 75,000 words. A 75 word author&#8217;s bio must be included with the entry.<\/p>\n<p>Entries will be judged on &#8220;(i) overall storytelling; (ii) creativity; (iii) originality; and (iv) writing ability, with equal weight given to each criterion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/rollofthunderpublishingcontest\/?ref=PRHB1ADDA163C\">submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguin Young Readers, in partnership with We Need Diverse Books\u2122 is hosting a book contest with a $35,000 prize and a book contract. They&#8217;re specifically looking for ethnicially diverse writers writing for children aged 8-14. There is absolutely no entry fee. The deadline for submission is June 21, 2016. According to their website, the contest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}