Sentence examples for writing contests from inspiring English sources

The Shelleys' circle enjoyed setting each other themed writing contests: the most famous work to have emerged from such a pastime is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

We both had what Palin calls "a love of the written word" and we both won Veterans of Foreign Wars writing contests as children.

In the May/June 2011 Poets & Writers, there's a feature on writing contests.

Libraries can offer programs like scary story Halloween writing contests for children and young adults.

Recent Pulitzer debacle aside, this May's Poets and Writers magazine feature about writing contests got me thinking about the advice I give my own students about literary competitions.

(I don't remember if one of the finalists was Larry Kane, my Miami nemesis in writing contests, but he probably was there. He later went on to write a book about the Beatles and became a legendary TV anchor in Philadelphia).

Ken, typically, takes it in his stride like an Ivy League essay writing contest.

Ms. DiGennaro has received several honors: first place in the Walt Whitman Birthplace Society Student Poetry Contest as a sixth grader, an award from the Newsday/Hofstra "Our Story: Long Island" fiction writing contest in 1998 and a gold medal for Mount Sinai High School's creative writing contest last year.

Three good case studies for learning these strategies are all winners or runners-up in the society's family history writing contest: ■Del E. Jupiter, "Agustina and the Kelkers: A Spanish West Florida Line," NGSQ 80 (December 1992): 265 79.

The university partners with the "1939" Club, one of the largest and most active Holocaust survivor organizations in the U.S., to host an annual Holocaust art and writing contest.

He also won second place for humor in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' 2012 Writing Contest.