<p>“There was one national gold medal, five national silver medals, and 12 regional gold keys.”</p>
<p>Word from the top. I’m even more confused now. :</p>
<p>Okay, I think I understand…</p>
<p>12 people won Gold Keys, qualifying for Nationals. Out of those 12, 5 got National Silvers, and 1 got the National Gold.</p>
<p>I <em>think</em>.
All this is rather silly though. Maybe it’s due to lack of submissions?</p>
<p>hmmm. I don’t know if it was from lack of submissions. The person on the phone said there was 600+ for the novel which seems like quite a lot. I have no idea how many applied in 2008 though.</p>
<p>The letter last year said “more than six hundred”.</p>
<p>Hmmm…I don’t think we’re getting anywhere with this. Maybe one of you winners could call/email and ask?</p>
<p>Good idea! They never responded to my email, so… /:</p>
<p>BUMPAGE!</p>
<p>…anyone?</p>
<p>I’m still waiting for a reply. I had question about workshops, etc. I’m assuming that we won’t hear back until after the holiday weekend.</p>
<p>Dead thread!</p>
<p>No replies yet?</p>
<p>I think most people fled this board when the winners were announced, and then expcially with the missing gold. Everyone (including myself) has probably gone off to sulk for a day or two before moving on. </p>
<p>As for the gold, look at last year’s winner blog under the comments of the most recent post (or second recent). She addresses the issue there, saying that PUSH didn’t feel like it could fully back any of the manuscipts that were submitted, so they did not chose a gold this year. Which is too bad. She also mentions that a lot of intern spots have been cut, so that may have had an impact as well.</p>
<p>hey, its never too early to begin a dialogue about scholastic novel contest 2010. Any suggestions from those who captured silver?</p>
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<p>Ouch.</p>
<p>Next year I’ll show them. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel kinda “meh” about the whole debacle anyway. Plus it was all overshadowed cause I got my dream internship :D</p>
<p>Question for all you veterans: Can you resubmit the same novel, but heavily edited?</p>
<p>J/w, is this hard to get? I was looking at the past winners and a lot of their papers weren’t as great as I expected or they had typos. But then again, I’m assuming they were younger than me.</p>
<p>Yeah - do they take age into account?</p>
<p>I’m definitely submitting for 2010. I did two pieces this year and got two gold keys in Short Short Story and Journalism. I’ll probably submit about ten pieces this year so I have better chances to get a national gold.</p>
<p>what are they really looking for that they consider publishable?
has anyone found the list of winners published on the push or scholastic art and writing website? They published the gold key and national awards for every other writing award, why not the novel?
Seems like novel is the step-child.</p>
<p>According to the silver winner’s this year, they are not publishing the results of the novel contest…probably because there’s no gold this year.</p>
<p>Well damn.</p>
<p>looks like they are now listed on the scholastic art and writing awards web page; I see four silver (all women). I may be missing one. I don’t see a fifth.</p>