<p>Sorry about the rejection -- we'll get 'em next year!!</p>
<p>shortie, are you out west?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in California. So it looks like they were sent out in bulks - mine had been folded so fast that the ink was stained on the other side.</p>
<p>how good of a publisher is PUSH, i've never heard of them, and if i ever did win anything like this i wouldn't want to get my book published by a publisher i've never heard of.</p>
<p>i haven't received anything yet.</p>
<p>has anyone else received letters?</p>
<p>i'm in nv.</p>
<p>I turned in 50 pages double spaced on 10 point font in march. I'm sure they've gotten mine because I overnighted it and someone signed for it. Does anyone here who has entered not recieved a rejection letter either?</p>
<p>Also, just curious, how many pages did you guys submit and what format (double spaced? font size?)</p>
<p>I completed my novel this year, its over 400 pages, I wanted to send the entire thing but they limited me to 50 pages double spaced =(</p>
<p>Good Luck all--and share the news if anyones already won so I can stop sweating--it's killing me!!</p>
<p>DJ, i haven't received anything either. i called them and they said they selected a gold and a silver winner this year. i'm not positive they've been contacted, but my best bet is that they have.</p>
<p>i mailed my manuscript on march 16.</p>
<p>i still haven't heard anything, but i sent mine double spaced and 12 pt. font, i don't think it mattered what style the font was in though...</p>
<p>actually in the main submission form for any submissions it says that manuscripts must always be double spaced and cannot be smaller than 10 point. since i wanted to put as much of my novel as possible, i did double space on 10 point</p>
<p>I used 12 pt. times new roman and submitted 4 chapters, which was 48 pages. I did use 10 pt. on the outline, though. It was a pain trying to fit the entire book's plot on two pages. Anyone else have this problem?</p>
<p>Oh my goodness -- I was borderline on fifty-one pages at ten point at Times New Roman. My outline was the same, but I didn't know what they wanted for the outline exactly -- how specific??</p>
<p>Oh DJ what are you doing entering contests? Go out there and get that baby published!</p>
<p>There's another contest I've heard of - Tweener Time??? I think it's called??? something like that -- anyway you get to send in ninety pages instead of fifty, and if you win you get a full ride to some college that sponsors it.</p>
<p>yea, amelia I had the same probably too. My outline was cut down so much that I couldn't discuss key points for each of my 24 chapters. 2 pages is ridiculous.</p>
<p>and yea, I would like to get published but I have no idea how or where to get that done. I'm graduating high school next week so I'm going to be writing full time over the summer.</p>
<p>has anyone heard anything about the winner for the novel gold award yet?</p>
<p>this is weird....i live in new england, and i haven't gotten a rejection letter yet...i know i didn't win because i probably would have been contacted already</p>
<p>haha mybe this is just delaying the inevitable but what if they're just getting all the rejectees notified and then they're going to notify the winners last, i maen since there were hundrerds of entries...</p>
<p>just a question-- do you HAVE to enter through your school, or can you just enter this alone, without a teacher..etc.?</p>
<p>The entry form requires a student, parent, and teacher signature to be accepted. If you're home schooled, your parent's signature will also work for teacher. Otherwise, yes, you basically have to enter through a school.</p>
<p>My school isn't directly involved, though. I took the initiative to enter on my own, and just got my English teacher to sign the form =)</p>
<p>same here. My teacher had absolutely no clue what I was talking about when I explained it to her, but she signed anyway.</p>
<p>Yeah, the school here doesn't really have much involvement either. It's surprising that more schools don't actively support the contest, since the school with the most national award winners gets some kind of prize, according to Scholastic's website.</p>