And thanks to these organizations for their prizes and promotional support:
The contest is managed by Barbara Zatyko, Publisher, in Toronto and Melissa Edwards, Managing Editor, in Vancouver, along with the generous help of numerous volunteers and supporters from the writing, publishing and arts communities. Please visit the Contest History page to read about the organizations who launched and nurtured this unique literary institution.
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September 10, 2008
John Kupferschmidt, winner of the 30th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest, will open the 2008-09 Sasquatch Reading Series in Ottawa with a reading from his prize-taking novel. See details here.
September 2, 2008
The Vancouver Sun talks to winners and entrants about the challenge of writing beginnings and endings during the contest.
September 1, 2008
More 3-Day veterans develop their contest drafts and find publishers. Read about Hide Your Life Away by Carol Little and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti by Stephen Graham Jones.
June 30, 2008
The Convictions of Leonard McKinley has been selected for the longlist for the 2008 ReLit Awards! The ReLit Award is Canada's "pre-eminent literary prize recognizing independent presses." Find out more about Brendan McLeod's 3-Day Novel Contest winner here.
May 11, 2008
Another 3-Day Novel success story: regular entrant Yeva Wiest is set to publish two novels that originated as 3-Day drafts. "The contest is a fun way to jump start a new book, and I love the way it makes me up the
the pace of the story," she says. Find news on Practical Purposes, to be released this September, and Dangling, to be released early next year, at the Lyrical Press website.
May 5, 2008
We've opened a fresh chat room for 2008, but you can still read the whole lively discussion by last year's entrants. Find the archived 2007 chat thread here.
April 30, 2008
The second season of BookTelevision's exciting reality TV series based on the 3-Day Novel Contest will air this summer! Visit the BookTelevision website for sneak peeks and schedules.
December 15, 2007
Ben Kaplan of the National Post asks 2006 winner Brendan McLeod "how to write a novel really, really fast." Read the article here.
November 5, 2007
The 3-Day Novel Contest has hit the funny pages! Gerry Rasmussen and Gary Delainey took their characters through the gruelling 3-Day Novel experience in their popular comic, Betty.
May 12, 2007
BookTelevision is now accepting applications for the second season of 3-Day Novel Contest: The Series. Find the application here.
May 5, 2007
Corey Redekop, an entrant in the 2003 3-Day Novel Contest, has published a version of his original entry
with ECW Press. Shelf Monkey is available in better bookstores now!
March 2007
A big congratulations to Timothy Anderson, first winner of BookTelevision's 3-Day Novel Contest reality series.
February 2007
Check out the winter issue of Poets and Writers for a blow-by-blow description of the contest experience by 2006 shortlister Patricia Chao!
January 2007
The 2006 contest is over, but you can still taste the madness! Read the 2006 entrants forum here.
More selections of past news on the 3-Day Novel Contest
... Take three deep breaths. Guzzle coffee, black or with sugar. Don't punish yourself. Do that on Tuesday. Get back to work. Take phone off hook. Pull drapes. If you feel lonely — an outcast — you are. That manuscript is now your only friend, the only one who cares. Finish it. Let it have a life, even if you don't. Bravo.
Illustrations: Eve Corbel, 2004
