Novel Competitions 2021 Novels & Stories

then looked at Jenny… who was also frowning. “What do you mean?” I asked her. Now Angela was frowning. “There’s flyers up on the bulletin boards. And they made an announcement.” She said. I still didn’t get it. Were Jenny and I both so in our own world we missed announcements now? We hadn’t had practice today .. it had been called off last minute. “They moved the competition to January.. after Christmas break. Something about some of the judges and the announcer got in a wreck. They were all traveling to some training together. They’re fine .. but they need some recoupment time.” She said.

And just like that, Ralph stayed the night at Layson’s apartment. …… The next day, when Adela arrived at the office, everyone was talking about the big jewelry design competition. Her relationship with Layson was old news—nobody was gossiping about it anymore. Cici ran over, eyes bright with gossip. “You heard? Practically the whole department signed up for the competition! You’re entering too, right? We’re heading to Carlton’s office soon.” “Is it usually this intense?” Adela asked. “Not always. But this year’s different—winners get to show their pieces in a live runway event. Huge deal.”

“Hey, Emily, can you stop?! Okay, I’ll tell you.” Emily nodded triumphantly, pulling up a chair. “That’s more like it. What are friends for, if not sharing secrets?” Before Sophia could utter a word, the sound of clapping interrupted them. “Attention, everyone!” Miss Carla Lennox’s voice rang out from the front of the office. “As the chairman informed you earlier, we’re holding an international design competition. The deadline for submissions is in one month, and only one candidate will represent Allure Fashion on the global stage. Bring me your best work.”

APRIL Excitement buzzed through me as I looked through my application one last time. Competitions were my favorite part of schooling, it had always been so since I was a toddler and nothing changed up till now. We didn’t have much competitions at Enigma, but the few we had were always bloody, students would go to any length to win and one couldn’t blame them because the school always put up pretty amazing cash prizes to be won. This time around, we were gearing up for the Jaw Wars, an annual oratory competition where the winner went home with a ten thousand dollar cash prize, an all expense paid summer trip, and free tutoring sessions.

Julia carried a small backpack and said, "Let's go, Lucas, Layla. Mommy will see you after school." The two children reluctantly followed her out the door. … Jessamine slept until noon and then checked her work phone, finding over 99 unread messages on WhatsApp. Since she had been absent from the office for a few days, she had a lot of catching up to do. She put on some makeup to hide her heavy dark circles and headed to work. This month, there was a jewelry design competition called the Cynthia Competition, hosted by Dorne. It was open to submissions from designers worldwide, and the judges were several experienced designers chosen from different parts of the globe.

Mia lowered her eyes to conceal her true emotions at Shelly's words. She'd already signed the divorce papers; who Timothy wanted to cheer on and be with was none of her business. Later, no matter what else Shelly said, Mia ignored her. Soon, Maya walked on stage to announce the commencement of the ceremony. "As we all know, there have been some changes to the rules for this year's competition. "There will only be ten winners, which means one of the 11 finalists will leave with nothing. For the sake of fairness, the designers' names will be concealed when the judging is conducted. The announcement of the winners will also be different—we'll start from the tenth place."

"Ah okay, just this one time, Mey." "Thank you!" I smiled. He gave me a brief nod and continued to explain our task, "At the end of the year, each of you shall complete a 30,000 words novella. We would make it a contest, and just like any competition, there shall be a winner. Our English teacher, Mr. Rodriguez, an editor from our local paper, and I would be the judge." Koltin seemed very interested. I watched him eagerly raise his hand before asking, "What do we get if we win?"

Ibukun glanced at her, wondering if she had just cried about Bolaji and her sudden drop in friends and admirers. “Yes, good,” he said, and turning to Ibukun, who shook her head no, he explained, “The Competition is in its maiden year. It’s for SS3 students only. It takes place in May, after your SSCE exams. For now, only schools from five states are open to competing; Lagos, Abia, Jos, Oyo and Rivers. The exam would also be purely oral.”

Mr Winters said and everyone nodded in affirmative. "Mig,Elva" Fleur called,her gaze fixed on something in Braun's iPod. "Yes" We answered. "Braun just showed me something...There is a competition coming up in two weeks time..it's created by the wealthiest politicians in Mexico...it'll be done annually and It's based on modelling and music..the competition are for popular models and musicians...