I had no idea what to do with it, so I just let the momentum carry me and submitted it to the literary magazine Gunzo's new-writers' contest.
It also plans to build an API to allow third party developers to tap into its network of copywriters, as well as to further sharpen the algorithms that it uses to match writers to contests and track their performance.
The counter-revolutionary writer Joseph de Maistre, contesting the idea that there is such a thing as "man" endowed with certain inalienable rights, once remarked that he had known Frenchmen, Italians, and Spaniards but never "man".
The cash prize of $50,000 has quickly made it a coveted award, with more than 80 writers entering the contest this year.
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.
I know all about how sudden money makes people crazy because for many years, I was the contest writer at the New York Post, during the newspaper's "Wingo" giveaway in the early eighties.
We heard privately from many would-be writers excited about the contest but also intimidated.
But in 1966, in a quintessentially 60s moment, The Sunday Times magazine announced a talent contest for writers under 23.
Now through November 30, Figment and the National Writing Project are sponsoring a contest for writers that Díaz is judging.
A treat today for aspiring writers, poets, and Cartoon Caption Contest contestants — a guest post by the writer, poet, and past winner of the New Yorker Caption Contest Cody Walker.
The judges' chair for the women-only contest, the writer and broadcaster Muriel Gray, said they were "hugely impressed by the power, ambition and skill of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel.
