Hey, wonderful writerly people! It’s time for our monthly first-page critique contest 🙂
This contest is closed. Please try again next month. If you’d like to be notified when the next one goes live, consider subscribing to our newsletter.
If you’re working on a first page (in any genre except erotica) and would like some objective feedback, please leave a comment. Any comment :). As long as the email address associated with your WordPress account/comment profile is up-to-date, I’ll be able to contact you if your first page is chosen. Just please know that if I’m unable to get in touch with you through that address, you’ll have to forfeit your win.
Two caveats:
▪ Please be sure your first page is ready to go so I can critique it before next month’s contest rolls around. If it needs some work and you won’t be able to get it to me right away, let me ask that you plan on entering the next contest, once any necessary tweaking has been taken care of. Resources for common problems writers encounter in their opening pages can be found here.
▪ This contest only runs for 24 hours, start to finish, so get your comment in there!
Three commenters’ names will be randomly drawn and posted tomorrow morning. If you win, you can email me your first page and I’ll offer my feedback.
We run this contest on a monthly basis, so if you’d like to be notified when the next opportunity comes around, consider subscribing to our blog (in the sidebar).
Best of luck!
PS: If you want to amp up your first page, grab our helpful First Pages checklist from One Stop for Writers. And for more instruction on these important opening elements, see this Mother Lode of First Page Resources.
Hope to win!
Congrats! The lucky ducks this month are Ligia, Nadine A Hofmann, and Fritzie. I’ll be in touch soon about your first pages :).
Thanks so much for entering, everyone. We’ll see you next month!
I love this site. It has been such an immense help with my writing. I really love the Emotions thesaurus.
Christina would love a chance to have you review the beginning of her adventure.
What a great idea! Thank you! 😀
I’m in!
Thank you.
–Brian Dale Pope
Only just saw the email. Have I missed the cutoff? Nevermind. 😊
Nope. the draw will happen tomorrow morning, so you’re in 🙂 Good luck!
Good afternoon! I’d like to try my hand at the roulette wheel again and submit my name for a First Pages critique! I’m on my last re-write before I start editing, and would LOVE a helping hand on what I consider my weakest point. Thanks for running this contest!
Thank you!
Thanks for this opportunity for a critique. You are the best!
Can we just hire you to do a first page or first chapter critique of our book?
Beverly King sweet romance
Hi there… Count me in. I would love to have a first-page critique. Thanks for the opportunity.👍
Please and thank you!
I am more than ready for this! Thank you for the opportunity 😊
I need all of the help I can get! This is one way to get you baby out there, if you are like me and are afraid of criticism.
Just finished editing Chapter 1 — would love another pair of eyes on my first page! Thanks so much!
I’ve seen this contest for over a year now and I think I’m finally ready to give it a shot! I’d love some feedback on the new opening of my YA portal fantasy, In Dreams They Came.
Love your newsletters! Thank you for all the help. Throwing my hat into this month’s first page contest. Thank you!
I’M A DERANGED OLD COOT, BUT I KNOW A BARGAIN WHEN I SEE ONE. THANKS FOR YOUR HELPFUL BLOG.
Sounds amazing, fingers crossed!
What a great opportunity to get feedback before March 1. Thank you!!
I’m throwing my pen in the ring!
In the words of Og Mandino, I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.” Becca, thank you for the opportunity to show us the stars in our work.
I love your blog. It really, really helps in my writing.
This sounds a bit scary but also fun. I’m in! Thanks for running this contest!
A great opportunity for a newbie short story writer like me. I can hardly wait….’Choose me! Choose me!
So exciting! I have all appendages crossed for success, and look forward top hearing from you soon!
May the odds be in my favor! *fingers crossed*
Hi, looking forward to another fun contest
Would love another pair of eyes on my middle grade. Thank you for the opportunity.
My friends-to-lovers contemporary romance attempt bats its eyelids at you 😉
Awesome! Thank you for the opportunity to enter.
First pagers rule!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Thank you and fingers crossed.
May the Great Pumpkin rise in my first page.
Thank you for doing this. I would love to get some feedback on the first page of my memoir-in-progress!
Hi Becca. I would so love for you to read my first page. I’m in the process of revising my adult fantasy novel The Searing Sands. It would be such an honor.
Oh goodness. I do have a first page that I think desperately needs a set of new eyes. I’d love to be chosen.
Great way to start a Thursday morning!
I could use this. Thank you!
I always love the first page critique- I’d love to win it!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on Percy the purple-beaked puffin’s intro. Thanks!
count me in!
I’d love to win this!
The first one of 2022! Thanks for keeping this going, Becca & Angela. Once again, jumping right in 😊 Good luck, everyone!