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Phenomenal First Pages Contest

March 8, 2022 by BECCA PUGLISI

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 the blog (in the sidebar).

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 (double-spaced in 12-point font) 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 (see the right-hand 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.

BECCA PUGLISI
BECCA PUGLISI

Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and bestselling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and its sequels. Her books are available in five languages, are sourced by US universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, editors, and psychologists around the world. She is passionate about learning and sharing her knowledge with others through her Writers Helping Writers blog and via One Stop For Writers—a powerhouse online library created to help writers elevate their storytelling.

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  1. Deborah Kellerman says

    March 9, 2022 at 3:02 pm

    I would like to be added to the list!
    Thank you!

    • BECCA PUGLISI says

      March 9, 2022 at 3:36 pm

      Hi, Deborah! I’m so sorry, but this month’s contest is already closed. It’s only open for about 24 hours, so the window closes pretty quickly. Stay tuned for next month’s opportunity!

  2. Judy L Mohr says

    March 9, 2022 at 12:32 pm

    You are so awesome. I love how you do this regularly. It gives so many a chance to have that objective eye on their opening words.

  3. Mindy Alyse Weiss says

    March 9, 2022 at 5:12 am

    Thank you all so much for entering. The lucky winners are…

    Steven Pelzer, Edwina Kiernan, and Lynne Clark!

    Huge congrats. I’ll send you an e-mail soon. 🙂

  4. Karen Manson says

    March 9, 2022 at 4:29 am

    Yes please, I would love to enter.

  5. Christina K Gross says

    March 9, 2022 at 1:05 am

    First page ready for your critics’ dart board.

  6. Belinda Todd says

    March 9, 2022 at 12:51 am

    Sounds like a smashing good time. Add me, please.

  7. Rebecca Campbell says

    March 8, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    I’d like to enter, please.

  8. Becky says

    March 8, 2022 at 11:25 pm

    I’d like a chance!

  9. Gifford MacShane says

    March 8, 2022 at 11:04 pm

    Would love to have your eyes on my page! Also love all the support you give to the writing community!

  10. Steven Pelzer says

    March 8, 2022 at 5:43 pm

    I’d love a chance at this.

  11. Lois P says

    March 8, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    Yes, please. I’d love to get feedback. Thanks!

  12. Cathy Shields says

    March 8, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    Pick me!!!

  13. E.F. Buckles says

    March 8, 2022 at 4:28 pm

    I’d like to enter!

  14. Edwina Kiernan says

    March 8, 2022 at 3:40 pm

    What a wonderful idea! I’m in 😊

  15. Kendra Thomas says

    March 8, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    Would love to have a first-page review. Grateful for this competition.

  16. Jessica Fortin says

    March 8, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    Throwing my slip in the lottery once again… 😋 I know my first chapter is one of my weakest

  17. Sara Dillinger says

    March 8, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    Me, too!

  18. Deb says

    March 8, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    This is such a beautiful gift to the community. Thank you!

  19. Karen Lowe says

    March 8, 2022 at 1:48 pm

    I’d love to win! Yeah, stories.

  20. Joni MacFarlane says

    March 8, 2022 at 1:36 pm

    Yes please! I would love to enter your First Page contest.
    Thanks so much for doing this – your work is so important to the writing community.
    Cheers, Joni

  21. Chuck Richardson says

    March 8, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    Thank you.

  22. Cathy Hendrix says

    March 8, 2022 at 12:19 pm

    It would be such a wonderful opportunity for you to read my opening page. Fingers crossed that you pick me!

  23. Marcia Berneger says

    March 8, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    Thank you!

  24. Sam says

    March 8, 2022 at 11:20 am

    Thanks so much for this opportunity.

    • Kelly-Lynne Reimer says

      March 8, 2022 at 11:54 am

      This is a wonderful opportunity and I am grateful you are willing to help us out. To who ever wins this. Hip hop hooray! To those who don’t, keep typing and don’t give up! As Earnest Hemingway once said. There is nothing to Writing.all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed! Haha

  25. Chris Ann Derby says

    March 8, 2022 at 10:47 am

    I would love a critique of my first page!

  26. Bruce C Rule says

    March 8, 2022 at 10:16 am

    I would love to get your feedback on the opening page of my middle-grade novel

  27. Dawn Steffler says

    March 8, 2022 at 10:05 am

    Throwing my hat in the ring.

  28. Katie Robles says

    March 8, 2022 at 10:01 am

    Here’s hoping!

  29. Kimberley M Bailey says

    March 8, 2022 at 9:50 am

    Would love to win! Thanks for the opportunity!

  30. martha walker says

    March 8, 2022 at 9:36 am

    excited to try this contest again

  31. Tara Baisden says

    March 8, 2022 at 9:02 am

    Yes!! This would be a wonderful opportunity!

  32. Carolyn says

    March 8, 2022 at 8:57 am

    I’d love your thoughts. Thanks so much.

  33. Ruth Khan says

    March 8, 2022 at 8:18 am

    This would be so helpful for me! It would be the first pair of eyes on a new thing I’m in 3/4 of the way through so some guidance to let me know that I’m heading in the right direction would be wonderful. Thanks so much!

  34. Lynne Clark says

    March 8, 2022 at 6:42 am

    I try every month for this, fingers crossed this time!

  35. Mary Luce says

    March 8, 2022 at 5:34 am

    I’d love this.

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