Call For Outstanding Animal Stories and Community Cultural Stories
Page Turner Awards is providing inspiration, and a genuine launchpad for many authors, writers, and screenwriters.
Now in its fourth year, the Page Turner Awards is open until early June when judging will then commence, before culminating in the spectacular online Winners’ Ceremony around October.
The Page Turner Awards celebrates outstanding writing from authors, writers, and screenwriters.
Sponsored by writing giants, ProWritingAid and IngramSpark, Page Turner Awards, offers authors, writers, and screenwriters the chance to enter the first 10 pages of their writing project, where a judging panel of literary experts and film producers will read the work.
Over the past few years, many aspiring writers have walked off with life-changing prizes, including unpublished writers who have won literary agency representation and publication offers, LA Entertainment Agency representation for screenwriters, writing mentorships for new aspiring writers, book adaptations and audiobook productions for published authors, and many other high-value prizes for writers at varying stages of their writing careers.
The pet story, Dawgs, A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them, written by Meredith Wargo, won the Page Turner Book Adaptation Needed Award with Meredith winning a book adaptation prize.
With her book now adapted to a screenplay and being pitched to film producers, Meredith said, «The Page Turner Awards is a contest unlike any other. It is evident that the co-founders of this international writing contest share a deep passion for helping shine the spotlight on the written word, no matter what stage or format it’s in. I was fortunate to win the Book Adaptation Needed award and have since received a screenplay of my true story. It’s extremely exciting to see my book in this format. My hope is that this script will open up new doors and possibilities that I had only dreamed about previously.»
Enthusiastic advocate for animals as healers, Christine Hassing won The Best Book Title for her book, Hope Has A Cold Nose, which is a compelling collection of 23 true life stories of military veterans and others who rose from the ashes of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and MST (military sexual trauma) with the aid of their service dogs who helped bring these survivors healing from the deepest emotional wounds.
New sub-categories for Page Turner Awards 2023 include Best True Story and Best Animated Story. These go alongside other sub-categories, such as Best Golden Writer (over 60s), Best Illustrated Book and Best Genre.
Page Turner Awards has awards for all writers, including a Book Award (for published books), a Writing Award (for unpublished, completed manuscripts), a Writing Mentorship Award (for unpublished, uncompleted manuscripts), a Young Writer Award (for writers aged between 18 and 25) and a Screenplay Award (for film and TV screenplays, as well as authors who want to win a book adaptation to film script).
Founder of Page Turner Awards and award-winning novelist, Paula Wynne said: «There are writers from all walks of life, from manual labourers to academics, all with stories to tell, and most of them heart-warming and moving. We’re proud that our awards celebrate excellent writing and help writers and authors to get their stories discovered.»
Page Turner Awards is particularly keen to see cultural and diversity stories from different communities. The heart of a community always comes from stories that are told within the community that stem from the soul of the culture. If you have such a story, Page Turner Awards would love to see it!
The Page Turner Awards winners can be found here: https://pageturnerawards.com/2022-award-winners
Submissions
for the 2023 Awards are now open and will close on 1 June 2023.
Find out how you too can enter your writing into The Page Turner Awards: https://pageturnerawards.com.
