{"id":8431,"date":"2021-01-05T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2021-01-05T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:48:28","slug":"100000-book-proposal-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/100000-book-proposal-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline: $100,000 Book Proposal Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want $100,000 for proposing an idea for a book? If that sounds good to you, the Nine Dots prize is back for the third time, with the same massive $100,000 prize available to the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be clear, if you want the full prize, you&#8217;ll be expected to actually write the book you propose, though it only needs to be 25,000 words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, the contest, which is co-hosted by Cambridge University, asks contestants to answer a simple question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What does it mean to be young in an ageing world?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your contest entry should include a &#8220;summary response to the set question&#8221; up to 3,000 words, a proposed book outline, and a &#8220;justification statement of your ability to complete the book.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a relatively standard non-fiction book proposal format. The worst case? You get practice writing and submitting a book proposal. The best case? You get $100,000 to write the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re interested in submitting, the deadline is January 18th, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/ninedotsprize.org\/submit\/\">read the contest website here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want $100,000 for proposing an idea for a book? If that sounds good to you, the Nine Dots prize is back for the third time, with the same massive $100,000 prize available to the winner. To be clear, if you want the full prize, you&#8217;ll be expected to actually write the book you propose, though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8431","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\/8431","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=8431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}