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The contest began in a playwright Tom Walmsley . From that point forward, a small publishing house named Arsenal Pulp Press ran the contest, took it international, and published one winner every year. In the late 1980s, Arsenal Pulp passed the torch to Anvil Press , which, 15 years later, passed it on to another small press. That publisher folded the same year, which seemed to mean the end of the contest. But a couple of fans of the 3-Day Novel agreed to rescue it; they put in hundreds of volunteer hours to set it up and manage it as an independent organization, which it remains to be today. About four to five hundred writers enter the contest every year, about two-thirds of whom manage to complete and submit a complete novel. Some are good, some are less good, and all have something unique and amazing somewhere in them--though only one is published. Most entrants hope to win the grand prize, but the real reason they enter is to kick start their brains and force their way out of writers block. Many entrants spend the rest of the year re-writing their draft, cannibalizing bits of it to use in other works, turning into a screenplay or a short story or using it as a launching point for something new. Some bury the work, never to be seen again, and only lay claim to the bragging rights of having completed the challenge. Winners of the 3-Day Novel Contest include Jan Underwood, of Portland , OR; Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally of Chicago , IL; Geoffrey Bromhead of Calgary , AB; David Zimmerman of New York , NY; Bonnie Bowman of Vancouver , BC; Todd Klinck of Toronto , ON; and many others. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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