title: Writing To Win:: The Colossal Guide To Writing Contests
author: Moira Allen
description: <b>Writing to Win</b> brings together the entire "writing contest database" from the world-renowned writing website "Writing-World.If you dream of seeing your name in print, this is a must-have book for your writing reference collection. This is the largest, most up-to-date print guide to writing contests available, from the pen of an author whose helpful articles for writers are known around the world.
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  [A Letter From the Authors](9780062078254_Contents.xhtml#a-letter-from-the-
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  Dear Reader,
  
  
  We had so much fun writing the novellas in It Happened One Night (2008) that
  we decided to do it again—with a difference. In that book, each story used the
  same plot elements—hero and heroine meet at an inn, they have not met for ten
  years, and their story encompasses twenty-four hours. We decided upon those
  common plot points, and the result was four quite distinct novellas.
  
  
  This time we decided to let a reader dream up a story line. Avon Books’
  resulting competition drew more than a thousand entries, from which we had the
  unenviable task of selecting twelve semi-finalists. We looked for a plotline
  that would challenge us yet not make it virtually impossible for our stories
  to be different from one another. We narrowed the field to four, then readers
  voted on-line for their favorite plot. The winner wa