If it were, could it pick up support in a contest for the Best Film award?
The book was entered into the Romance Writers of America contest for the RITA award, the romance genre's equivalent of the Oscars, and it was selected as a finalist in both the Best Inspirational Romance and Best First Book categories.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is lopsidedly male (37 percent of all students are women), dispatches female students to schools to share their enthusiasm for STEM and hosts a math contest for young girls that awards $25,000 to the winner.
The novel was still the contest for which the big awards were given, however - no one was likely to win the Nobel prize for writing journalism, though Mailer still had hopes - and to say that Mailer's talent was not suited to fiction was the quickest way to hurt him.
The novel was still the contest for which the big awards were given, however - no one was likely to win the Nobel prize for writing journalism, though Mailer still had hopes - and to say that Mailer's talent was not suited to fiction was still the quickest way to hurt him.
The co-founder of the group behind the contest to award $10,000 for the best cartoon depiction of Muhammad is a New Yorker who runs a blog that campaigns to stop the "Islamification" of America.
In 2006 he was runner-up in a contest for the "World Mayor" award.
Vertex holds a company-wide contest for an "outstanding research award" of $10,000 to a person who is recognized by senior leaders and peers.
Asked later about the race within a race, the contest for the Cy Young Award, Red Manager Pete Rose said: "I've been around several Cy Young winners.
Show off your spookiest look at a midnight costume contest awarding $1,000 for first prize.
They also won the contest's award for best canoe in 2006.
