ICL Middle Grade Mystery First Pages Contest
Pull out those magnifying glasses! It's time to lure us in with the first pages of your mystery novel for middle grade readers. This contest is your chance to write a fiction mystery first page for kids ages 8-12 years old. It can be funny or ominous or somewhere in between.
Entries for this contest will include a one-sentence book summary followed by no more than 1,000 words from the beginning of your book. (Book summary sentence not included in first pages word count. The full manuscript does not need to be finished in order to enter.) Your first page should be previously unpublished.
Entry fee: $19. Deadline: November 15, 2021
Prizes: First Prize = $650, 2nd prize = $350, 3rd prize = $100, 4th prize = $100, 5th prize = $100