Contest Winners Posted Below!
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19 and up category:
1st Place:
Graham Kell – Swimming Blind
2nd Place:
Elizabeth Chance – His Scars for Mine
3rd Places:
Derek Elkins – Theophany | Wallace Heller – Angel’s Mercy | Katherine Thompson – They Left us the moon
Honorable Mentions:
Sally Bishop – Shattered Neon
Kathleen Moulton – Unfinished Bridges
High School Category
1st Place:
Jennifer van den Bogerd – The Rain Sequence
2nd Place:
Caroline Carmichael – Belleau Wood
3rd Places:
Rebecca Chance – The Dissenters | Cody Milner – The Viking | Myra Stull -The Cabin
Honorable Mentions:
Meghan Gorecki – Thus Far
Hannah Lowie - The Call
Poetry Category:
1st Place:
Nancy Hance – The King’s Garden
2nd Place:
Sarah Anderson -My Name
3rd Place:
Nancy Hance – Beneath the Robe of Righteousness
Honorable Mentions:
Kristina Benham – Purpose
Stephen Kingsley – The Call to Worship
Are you the next Tolkien? CS Lewis? Dorothy Sayers? GK Chesterton? Get discovered!
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2009 Winners Anthology Available on Amazon.com!
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Athanatos Christian Ministries (ACM) wants to inspire young Christians to take up the pen and promote the Christian world view through fiction. ACM believes that the the secular world is constantly promoting itself through the arts and that Christians should be prepared to fight back. Thus, the Gospel of Christ should be communicated through music, movies, plays, art … and literature. The purpose of this writing contest is to create a culture of quality writing reflecting a Christian world view.
Awards:
NEW THIS YEAR:
All winners and honorable mentions will receive complimentary access to Athanatos Christian Ministry’s online apologetics conference on literature and Christian fiction! And…
The grand prize winner of the 19 and up category of this contest will be invited to present at the conference! Read more…
SHORT STORY CATEGORIES
College (19 thru 90+) Category:
- 1st Prize: $500
- 2nd Prize: $250
- Three Runner Ups: $100 each.
- Publication in Contest Anthology
- Two Honorable Mentions*
English as Second Language (International):
- 1st Prize: $100
- Publication in Contest Anthology
- See Rules and Requirements for more info.
High School (13 thru 18) Category:
- 1st Prize: $500
- 2nd Prize: $250
- Three Runner Ups: $100 each.
- Publication in Contest Anthology
- Two Honorable Mentions*
POETRY CATEGORY
- 1st Prize: $200
- 2nd Prize: $125
- 3rd Prize: $75
- Publication in Contest Anthology
EVERY entrant will receive a copy of the Contest Anthology at no additional cost- it is included in their entry fee! (shipping extra)
Other Details:
Genre: Fiction- Short Story
- Cost: $15.
- Length: 1,500 to 7,500 words
- Content: implicitly or explicitly reflecting the orthodox Christian world view.
- Time: Accepting Entries Now thru Mar 1, 2010. Winners Announced beginning in April, 2009. Anthologies and Awards disbursed in early May, 2010.
Poetry
- Cost: $15.
- Length: Max 2,500 words
- Content: implicitly or explicitly reflecting the orthodox Christian world view.
- We reserve the right to modify the award amounts depending on response.
- Time: Accepting Entries Now thru Mar 1, 2010. Winners Announced beginning in April, 2010. Anthologies and Awards disbursed in early May, 2010.
COMING SOON! A full length novel category! Join our mailing list to be alerted!
Group rates for multiple submissions, teachers, pastors, youth directors, etc, are available. For more information Email ACM’s executive assistant, Debbie Thompson, at debbie@athanatosministries.org or call ACM’s Executive Director Anthony Horvath at 202-280-7971, leaving a message if necessary.
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Simultaneous submissions Allowed
Authors retain copyright; submitting manuscript in contest indicates the author grants ACM certain rights to publish the story. See the rules and requirement page for more details.
*Honorable Mentions may or may not be in the anthology, depending on space limitations.
2009 Anthology:
