Write Ways to Win Writing Contests - Winning Writers

 Write Ways to WIN WRITING

CONTESTS

How to Join the Winners' Circle for Prose and Poetry Awards

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Howard Reid has worked in the publishing industry all his life. Starting as a humble subscription agent, he rose from the ranks to own and manage book and magazine publishers, retail bookstores, wholesale book distributors and wholesale newsagents. In 1985, he began to publish his own novels under the "Merryll Manning" pseudonym. Over the years, these seventeen books received enormous critical acclaim and were reprinted in various editions by other publishers including Harper/Collins. In 2009, these novels, commencing with Merryll Manning: Trapped on Mystery Island and Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders, have finally made their USA debut. Under his own name, John Howard Reid has also published thirty books of movie history/film criticism in the "Hollywood Classics" series.

In order to research Write Ways To Win Writing Contests, John Howard Reid wrote a number of short prose pieces and poems, which he entered in eighty writing contests over an eighteen-month period, winning a string of prizes and awards, including First Prize for Non-Fiction in the prestigious Southern Cross Literary Competition 2002; First Prize in the Play/Screenplay section in the Gold Coast Literary Awards 2003; the Hills Library Prize for Prose 2002; Central Coast Writers' Festival, Second Prize 2003; Sun City Poetry Awards, Third Prize 2003; plus a large number of Very Highly Commended, Highly Commended and Commended certificates.

For the past seventeen years, John Howard Reid has served as chief judge for the Tom Howard Short Story, Essay and Prose Contest, one of the world's top literary competitions. He also judges the annual Tom Howard Poetry Contest, as well as the Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Verse.

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Write Ways to WIN WRITING

CONTESTS

How to Join the Winners' Circle for Prose and Poetry Awards

NEW EXPANDED EDITION

by

John Howard Reid

LULU BOOKS 2009

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Copyright 2009 by John Howard Reid. Copyright waived for newspapers, magazines, journals, websites.

Revised Third Edition: Published March, 2004 Completely Revised Fourth Edition: March, 2009



ISBN: 978-0-557-02325-7 4

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