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PROGRAMS & AWARDS

NEBRASKA

Jane Geske Award
Mildred Bennett Award
Nebraska Book Awards

Letters about Literature Contest
Contest for young people who write a letter to the author, past or present, who has most influenced them. State winners go on to compete in the national contest.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

Letters about Literature Contest
Contest for young people who write a letter to the author, past or present, who has most influenced them. State winners go on to compete in the national contest.

Literary Contests - Facts & Fakes
Cautions about entering literary contests, by a published author Victoria Strauss.

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
San Jose State University sponsors this yearly challenge "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels". No entry fee.

Bowker's Awards Database
Search for award by name, year, author, keyword and more. Or browse by title or categories like these:: Afro-American Autobiography, Biography, Business, Children's Fiction, Children's Non-Fiction, Cooking, Drama, Environment, History, Humanities, Humour, Mystery, NonFiction, Poetry, Politics, Romance, Science, Science Fiction, Western, etc..

Awards (Barnes & Noble)
Links to lists of award winners in the following categories: Fiction and Nonfiction, Children's and Young Adult, Christian, Cooking, Gay and Lesbian, Horror and Suspense, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Sports & Adventure.

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