<p>[The</a> Scholastic Art & Writing Awards](<a href=“http://www.artandwriting.org/]The”>http://www.artandwriting.org/)</p>
<p>That is the website for this award, right?
And there is this paragraph on the website:</p>
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<p>And then they have the lists of winners:</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, they announced it for all the other categories (portfolio, short story, all the art awards…etc…). They did that a while back. We are all waiting (those who have posted recently) for the novel award to come out, which is slightly seperate from the normal Art and Writing awards, as it is affliated with the publisher PUSH. </p>
<p>But thank you for trying to help us parinoid and worried people!</p>
<p>Do you think they’ll put it up first thing tomorrow? I have an aching feeling that they might delay the winners list… D:</p>
<p>lol yeah i just know they’re gonna make us wait. i’ll wake up and check the site first thing tomorrow, and…it won’t be there.</p>
<p>There’s no way we’re gonna know, even in the next few days.</p>
<p>Yes, I am a pessimist.</p>
<p>Well right now my computer won’t load the PUSH webpage…perhaps because they are in the process of posting (???) :O</p>
<p>naw mine’s loading. it still says, ENTER THE 2009 PUSH NOVEL CONTEST.</p>
<p>WTH.</p>
<p>I’m so nervous! It already 7:30 in NY! They should hurry up and get in the office!</p>
<p>I keep imagining how their day goes, like, “Hm, better have some coffee. Maybe call the Mrs. Oh, and decide about seven hundred anxious teenagers’ fate. Maybe a danish too?”</p>
<p>Lmao.
My teacher is absent and this is what I do on my iPod.</p>
<p>my worry is that the winner may find out today, but the others runners up and honorable mentions may not know til much later. another weekend of anxiety</p>
<p>maybe we should recommend that they make the entry and decision timelines the same as the rest of the writing contest next year</p>
<p>Welp, nothing yet… I’m tellin’ ya, these people like to push (no pun intended) deadlines. We’ll probably find out at 11pm. /:</p>
<p>NOOOOOO.
I keep checking the sites every period.
AND IT’S NOT UP.
D:</p>
<p>schoolwannabe, you’re just a bundle of joy, huh. Heh heh. ;)</p>
<p>Does anyone else think the covers for Push publications are flat-out ugly? Maybe, I think this because I’m into design and am in AP Art, but, jeez, I really hope we, if chosen, can choose the cover. Some of those are just tasteless or outrageously cheesy, ugh.</p>
<p>yup and yup
a bundle of joy, and covers are uggggly. I really think the judges are misguided…they think all teens want to read about doom and gloom, and twisted experiences. maybe people want to write about them, but I don’t want to read about them.</p>
<p>I can enjoy some depressing work so long as it’s interestingly executed. Some of the stuff I glazed through on the Push website just sounds rather contrived and cliche. You know, the whole, “Oh I’m going to cut my wrists and run away.” eh idk…</p>
<p>I completely feel ya on this one. It’s not so much the doom and gloom, because, like people said, it can be interesting if executed well. But looking at their publication history… They publish exactly the kind of stuff I shudder at when I pass by the bookstore. I personally hate (with a wild passion) “teen novels” that have no underlying point and make me want to bludgeon the protagonist with a sledgehammer.</p>
<p>If they judge by what they publish… There is absolutely no way they’ll like my book. ):</p>
<p>P.S I know I sound brutal, but though there are GOOD teen novels, there are so, so, so many bad ones.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s true. If you actually read the books (not just the description which I agree are very cheesy), you’ll see that they aren’t all “doom and gloom”. “Cut” is, and a few others, but mostly no. Also… what is a novel without conflict? Doesn’t have to be cutting, but if you’re just writing about the joys of running, I’m not sure how fun that would be to read.</p>
<p>^^ Not sure if you’re referring to me (if not, ignore the following =P), but it’s the subject matter that gets me. I dunno, I feel like for a novel to be great it has to break new ground, say something substantial, or basically do something to further a literary movement, as well as entertain… but I’m asking a whole lot out of books. /: And yeah, conflict in a book is important, but contrived conflict for conflict’s sake isn’t, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>Anyway… just checked the site. Nothing yet. ):</p>
<p>Oh I agree. I just feel like a lot of the Push books do that. Tyrell is unlike any other book. Born Confused is actually very original. I agree about some of them just going nowhere… Gossip Girl type stuff makes me way more angry, though.</p>