Win Feedback on 5 pages!

Want to win editorial feedback
and take your story
from good to great?

Well, my writerly friend, you’re in luck!
It’s time for our monthly
Phenomenal First Pages contest.
In this draw, you can win…

Editorial feedback on the first 5 pages of your novel.

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 here.

Entering is easy. Leave your contact information on this entry form. If you win the draw, we’ll let you know how to send us your pages.

Contest Details

• This is a 24-hour contest, so enter ASAP.
• Make sure your contact information on the entry form is correct.
• FIVE winners will be drawn. If you win, we’ll email instructions for submitting your first 5 pages plus a short synopsis up to 500 words.
• Please have your pages ready in case your name is selected. Format with 1-inch margins, double spaced, and 12pt Times New Roman font. 

The editor you’ll be working with: Michelle Barker

Michelle holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC and has been a senior editor at The Darling Axe since its inception. She has experience with both developmental and line editing and loves working closely with writers to hone their manuscripts and discuss the craft. Many of them have gone on to win publishing contracts and honors for their work. 

Her newest book, coauthored with David Griffin Brown, is Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors. They are also the authors of Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling and Story Skeleton: The Classics. Her novel My Long List of Impossible Things, came out in 2020 with Annick Press. The House of One Thousand Eyes was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and won numerous awards including the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry have appeared in literary reviews world-wide. 

You can find Michelle on GoodReads and subscribe to her helpful newsletter.

Did you know…

Some winners find their dream editor through this contest, and a few have shared with us that their polished pages have helped them secure representation. Talk about phenomenal reasons to enter!

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Good luck, everyone. We can’t wait to see who wins!