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2010 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition
The 2010 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition is closed. Our best wishes to everyone who entered. See you at the banquet!
2010 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition Information
Do you have questions? Download our 2010 entry packet
Hear ye, hear ye! Beginning March 1, 2010, the Royal Palm Literary Awards competition will be accepting entries for our 2010 competition, and this year, RPLA is better than ever. We’ve been working with publishers to refine our genre-category definitions, and we’ve paid close attention to the many helpful comments of the FWA membership—you!—to keep the 2010 competition in tune with our fast-changing industry and with the needs of FWA members.
Among the changes: we’ve added to and redefined the genre-categories of Juvenile Fiction, separated Fantasy from Sci-Fi, expanded the allowable word count for Short Stories, and streamlined the judging process to make it both more understandable and more precise.
We’ve also tried to put everything you’ll need in one document: a description of the entry process, revised genre-category definitions, FAQs, and forms. Oh, this Entry Packet is a biggie, but we think you’ll find it easy to navigate. Please read the packet carefully—yes, RPLA has good reasons to be specific about process and formatting, and you’ll need to follow the prescriptions closely.
We look forward to receiving your entries once March begins. Good luck, everyone!
Click here to download the 2010 RPLA Entry Package
Additional questions?
Email RPLA Chair Chris Coward, fwa-rpla@floridawriters.net.
Good luck and happy writing.
To view the list of previous winners, please click on the links below.
2009 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners 2008 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners
2007 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners 2006 Royal Palm Literary Award Winners