Sentence examples for book contest from inspiring English sources

Mr. Eskenazi, who published the critically acclaimed book "Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith," has also created a book contest.

Her novel, Purple Hibiscus, a Nigerian coming-of-age story set during the military dictatorship of the mid-90s, is now a contender for the women-only prize in the most formidable shortlist of any book contest this year - a list stronger in depth than at the final stage of either the Booker or Whitbread prizes.

"I think it has an effect on kids and parents," said Nora Salem, an elementary school teacher whose daughter, Deena Abdelmonem, was the Staten Island winner of the Ezra Jack Keats book contest for writing and illustrating "Martha's Marvelous Mittens," about a girl who loses her beloved mittens and finds them on a snowman.

Firstly, the ever-increasing numbers of "book contest for a fee" schemes are becoming discouraging.

In fact, the article includes a sidebar, "The Anatomy of Awards," where the 129 book contest winners announced the previous year in Poets & Writers are broken down by gender, age, genre, education, residence, and ethnic background.

However, while researching their book, Contesting Home Defence, Penny Summerfield and Corinna Peniston-Bird tracked down many women who – often thanks to sympathetic fathers, brothers and husbands – had got hold of armaments and trained seriously with them.

Yet in spite of my faith in the egalitarian attitude of editors and the anonymity of book contests, I understand my father's angle on the issue.

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He's decidedly the underdog in the National Book Award contest.

Congratulations to Caitlin Liss, of Northampton, Massachusetts, who continues the Liss family tradition of Book Bench contest dominance.

Aaron Friedberg, an American scholar, argues in a new book ("A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia") that China's rulers want to constrict America's military and diplomatic clout in the Western Pacific, "pushing it back and ultimately displacing it as the preponderant power in East Asia".