Battle Creek Press Young Adult Fiction Contest
There are presently no open calls for submissions.
Guidelines
1) The Battle Creek Press New and Emerging Author Anthology is meant for a wide, general audience. Write about anything you’d like; however, keep the subject matter to a Y rating or PG-13 rating. Any submission rated Y+ or R, or worse, will automatically be disqualified. Nothing pornographic, extremely violent, or horrific will be accepted.
2) Keep the language in your submission clean. Unnecessary profanity will be edited out anyway, so if you include profanity that serves no obvious literary purpose, know that it will likely be edited out if your submission is chosen to be included in the Anthology.
3) Click on the “Complete Submission” link below. Battle Creek Press uses Submishmash.com to manage our writing contest submissions and $25 reading fees. Authors may be required to create a free Submishmash account before completing their submission.
4) You are allowed to multiple submissions. However, each submission will require a separate $25 reading fee. Your submission(s) must be fresh and new. Do not submit reprints or previously published material.
5) This is a Young Adult Fiction writing contest. Use the following loose definition as a guideline while creating your submission:
Young Adult: Fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The Young Adult Library Services (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA) defines a young adult as “someone between the ages of twelve and eighteen”. Young adult novels have also been defined as texts written for the ages of twelve and up. Authors and readers of young adult (YA) novels often define the genre as “literature written for ages ranging from ten years up to the age of twenty” (Cole). Another suggestion for the definition is that Young Adult Literature is any text being read by adolescents, though this definition is still somewhat controversial.
Although YA literature shares the fundamental elements of character, plot, setting, theme, and style common to other genres of fiction, theme and style are often subordinated to the more tangible basic narrative elements such as plot, setting, and character, which appeal more readily to younger readers. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child.
It is generally agreed that Young Adult Literature is literature written for adolescent readers, and in some cases published by adolescent writers. The subject matter and story lines are typically consistent with the age and experience of the main character, but beyond that YA stories span the entire spectrum of fiction genres. Themes in YA stories often focus on the challenges of youth, so much so that the entire age category is sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming of age novels. Writing styles of YA stories range widely, from the richness of literary style to the clarity and speed of the unobtrusive and even free verse (Wikipedia).
Terms
Authors will be provided with a complete Anthology Agreement for review and consideration prior to publication of accepted submissions. The following is a general, non-binding, summary of the terms under which The Battle Creek Press New and Emerging Author Anthology currently publishes submissions:
1) Only those authors who win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in each respective writing contest (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult, and Poetry) will be paid to publish their submissions. Winnings will be paid out according to the Official Rules.
2) Battle Creek Press buys exclusive first world Anthology rights, in the English language and any electronic format, for a particular release of the Anthology. There is a twelve (12) month no other publication/use provision. Rights apply only to a specific complete Anthology release, not general use of a work.
3) The complete Anthology is published in print and digitally in a variety of electronic formats; however, we also buy the non-exclusive right to republish, print, or reprint the complete Anthology in any language or format.
4) Battle Creek Press will provide professional editing to the winners of the contest. Author must cooperate with the editor and make all required changes, additions, or deletions (not all changes are ‘required’ — required changes typically relate to grammar/spelling, Chicago Style, and Anthology-series consistency issues). The editing process is done exclusively in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format; use of Word Track Changes is required.
5) All submissions are subject to the writing contest Official Rules.
1) The Battle Creek Press New and Emerging Author Anthology is meant for a wide, general audience. Write about anything you’d like; however, keep the subject matter to a Y rating or PG-13 rating. Any submission rated Y+ or R, or worse, will automatically be disqualified. Nothing pornographic, extremely violent, or horrific will be accepted.
2) Keep the language in your submission clean. Unnecessary profanity will be edited out anyway, so if you include profanity that serves no obvious literary purpose, know that it will likely be edited out if your submission is chosen to be included in the Anthology.
3) Click on the “Complete Submission” link below. Battle Creek Press uses Submishmash.com to manage our writing contest submissions and $25 reading fees. Authors may be required to create a free Submishmash account before completing their submission.
4) You are allowed to multiple submissions. However, each submission will require a separate $25 reading fee. Your submission(s) must be fresh and new. Do not submit reprints or previously published material.
5) This is a Young Adult Fiction writing contest. Use the following loose definition as a guideline while creating your submission:
Young Adult: Fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The Young Adult Library Services (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA) defines a young adult as “someone between the ages of twelve and eighteen”. Young adult novels have also been defined as texts written for the ages of twelve and up. Authors and readers of young adult (YA) novels often define the genre as “literature written for ages ranging from ten years up to the age of twenty” (Cole). Another suggestion for the definition is that Young Adult Literature is any text being read by adolescents, though this definition is still somewhat controversial.
Although YA literature shares the fundamental elements of character, plot, setting, theme, and style common to other genres of fiction, theme and style are often subordinated to the more tangible basic narrative elements such as plot, setting, and character, which appeal more readily to younger readers. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child.
It is generally agreed that Young Adult Literature is literature written for adolescent readers, and in some cases published by adolescent writers. The subject matter and story lines are typically consistent with the age and experience of the main character, but beyond that YA stories span the entire spectrum of fiction genres. Themes in YA stories often focus on the challenges of youth, so much so that the entire age category is sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming of age novels. Writing styles of YA stories range widely, from the richness of literary style to the clarity and speed of the unobtrusive and even free verse (Wikipedia).
Terms
Authors will be provided with a complete Anthology Agreement for review and consideration prior to publication of accepted submissions. The following is a general, non-binding, summary of the terms under which The Battle Creek Press New and Emerging Author Anthology currently publishes submissions:
1) Only those authors who win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in each respective writing contest (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult, and Poetry) will be paid to publish their submissions. Winnings will be paid out according to the Official Rules.
2) Battle Creek Press buys exclusive first world Anthology rights, in the English language and any electronic format, for a particular release of the Anthology. There is a twelve (12) month no other publication/use provision. Rights apply only to a specific complete Anthology release, not general use of a work.
3) The complete Anthology is published in print and digitally in a variety of electronic formats; however, we also buy the non-exclusive right to republish, print, or reprint the complete Anthology in any language or format.
4) Battle Creek Press will provide professional editing to the winners of the contest. Author must cooperate with the editor and make all required changes, additions, or deletions (not all changes are ‘required’ — required changes typically relate to grammar/spelling, Chicago Style, and Anthology-series consistency issues). The editing process is done exclusively in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format; use of Word Track Changes is required.
5) All submissions are subject to the writing contest Official Rules.