TORONTO: Launch Party and Pep Rally
Thursday, August 27, 7 p.m. onward
Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street
With Jason Rapczynski, winner of the 31st Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, and special guests Matthew J. Trafford and Tate Young. Come get ready for the upcoming contest!
Full details at the 3-Day website.
VANCOUVER: Last-Chance Registration Drop-off
Friday, September 4, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Lugz Coffee Lounge, 2525 Main Street
Drop off your last-minute registrations in-person, or meet and chat with fellow entrants.
NEW HAVEN: Reading and Post-Contest Meetup
September 8, evening, Yale Bookstore, Yale University
Details to come. Keep checking www.3daynovel.com.
NEW YORK: U.S. Launch and Post-Contest Meetup
September 25, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
KGB, 85 E 4th Street
Reading from The Videographer and meetup for local 3-Day survivors. More details to come. Keep checking www.3daynovel.com.
Many entrants plan to post Twitter updates of their progress (or growing insanity) during the upcoming contest. If you want to do the same, try using the hashtag #3dnc to be part of the larger conversation. But don't spend too much time on Twitter (or Facebook or the chat room) ... if you aren't writing your novel, you're better off walking, eating, sleeping, weeping or otherwise refuelling your brain.
A few more novels that began as 3-Day drafts are finding their way to the bookstores.
- Christopher Meades, a long-time contest veteran from Vancouver, has signed a three-book deal with ECW Press. The first of his upcoming fiction series to be released by ECW will be The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, which he wrote during the 2007 3-Day Novel Contest and which was one of that year's finalists. The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark will be released in fall 2010.
- Breakwater Books has released Tantramar, a coming-of-age story written by Eric Sparling of Guelph, Ontario, during the 3-Day Novel Contest several years ago. The St. John's Telegram says Tantramar is "an accomplished and multi-layered piece of work," and the Argosy says "Eric Sparling’s first book is a novel of genuine sentiment, quiet wisdom, and darkly funny prose."
- Brenda Niskala of Regina says the 3-Day Novel Contest was her "breakthrough into longer form." A revised version of her 2004 entry, Of All the Ways to Die, will be released as a novella by Quattro Books this coming fall.
Keep an eye out for these new additions to the 3-Day genre. And if something great came out of your 3-Day Novel experience, let us know at info@3daynovel.com.
Two of our past winners, Hayden Trenholm and Brendan McLeod, keep giving us stuff to write about. Hayden, who now lives in Ottawa, is about to release another novel. Steel Whispers is an "edge-of-your seat amalagam of police procedural and razor-sharp science fiction." Find out more at Bundoran Press.
Brendan McLeod, meanwhile, is releasing a solo CD. Little Troubles, Live is a mix of the songs, poems, stories, and bits of energetic banter from McLeod's performances. It chronicles the difficulties that result from being a person in the world, "from oversized sweaters and break ups to funerals and robberies, serving up a manifold world of earnest difficulties and uneasy conclusions with humour and heart." Don't miss his CD release party at the Anza Club in Vancouver on August 26.
Other Contests and Literary Events
Keep your writing skills honed for the next contest with these upcoming literary events.
Memoir (and)'s 6th Contest
Deadline: August 15, 2009
A biannual journal of memoir is looking for personal non-fiction submissions. No fee, but the deadline is coming up fast. Details: http://memoirjournal.squarespace.com/contest/
Magazine Writers' Craft Fair
August 15, 2009
Vancouver-area writers should check out this one-day symposium on professional magazine writing at SFU Harbour Centre. $35/$45, includes lunch. Details: http://www.bcmags.com/writerscraft
The Malahat Review Open Season Awards
Deadline: November 1, 2009
Awards for poetry, short fiction, or creative non-fiction. Fee: $35 - $45. Details: http://www.malahatreview.ca/open_season/info.html
Support Our Supporters!
The 3-Day Novel Contest relies on hundreds of hours of volunteer time from its judges and support and promotional help from generous prize donors and our friends in the literary community. Visit our Sponsor page to find links to these excellent organizations.
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The Videographer
The 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest will take place Sept. 5 - 7, 2009.
The 3-Day Novel Contest demands that writers produce a masterwork of fiction in a mere 72 hours. What started as a bet in a bar in 1977 now attracts hundreds of writers from around the world each year.
Registration postmark deadline for the upcoming contest is Sept. 4. For more information on the contest, visit www.3daynovel.com.
Questions or comments? Email info@3daynovel.com.
Chat with fellow 3-Day entrants on our Abebooks discussion board.
Follow us on Twitter @3DayNovel.
Wow, we even have a Flickr group.
David Riedel of the New Haven Advocate talks about the 3-Day experience and interviews 2008 winner Jason Rapczynski about his prize-taking novel. Read the whole article.
Our Latest Release
The Videographer by Jason Rapczynski of New Haven, CT.
3-Day Books / $14.95 / ISBN: 978-1-55152-252-4
"Definitely out of the ordinary...It works. The Videographer is the page-turner that won out..." —David Riedel, New Haven Advocate
The winner of the 31st Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest is nearly ready for distribution! Order it with your registration or ask your favourite bookstore or library to order it in.
3-Day Novel Contest / 200-341 Water St. / Vancouver, BC / V6B 1B8 / info@3daynovel.com / www.3daynovel.com
