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_**
  
  > 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 was Phyllis
  > Post. This was her submission:
  
  > 1\. The hero, younger brother of a 