Sentences with phrase «of writing a competition»

Each month we aim to provide a helpful round - up of writing competitions, fellowships, publication opportunities and more for writers at all stages of their careers.

I think attending these types of writing competitions will be good for youngsters to develop their writing skill.

These authors will battle against each other in a brief but intense bout of writing competition for the Grand Prize of $ 5000, worldwide press coverage, and the chance to be published.

Apart from being full, as usual, of great articles with writing tips and insights, it also includes a programme of writing competitions for 2011.

... a 2001 Finalist and 2004 Semi-Finalist for the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship... had a project invited to the 2005 Sundance Institute Producers Conference... placed in a variety of writing competitions, including the Austin Film Festival, PAGE International, FADE IN Awards, Cynosure Screenwriting and Scriptapalooza.

Karen enjoys entering a variety of writing competitions to practice and refine her craft.

We're big fans of writing competitions; it's why we maintain a calendar list of them in our Winner Circle.

And though the number of writing competitions has skyrocketed in recent years, one thing has remained a constant in the writer's life: rejection.

The SCC is delighted to announce Ms. Jade Harry as the winner of the writing competition associated with the book Arbitrating for Peace.

Not exact matches

Over the next three years, the Canadian Tire analysts will study decades worth of competition results dating back to the 1930s, and dissect any insights out of the data as possible, writes Marketing's Jered Stuffco.

«Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day,» wrote Musk in a 2014 blog post.

«I won't stop you from selling «Schmoylent» on legal grounds, but I must caution you it is unwise to enter in to direct competition with us,» Rhinehart wrote in response to the Schmoylent query in one of Soylent's online «fireside chats.»

«We believe in a little healthy competition, and meetings have been known to end with a friendly round of Rock Band,» Pollock writes.

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is clearly «a warning shot for the food retail industry that competition likely heightens on top of an already challenging retail backdrop,» Wells Fargo senior analyst Zachary Fadem wrote in a note to investors on Friday.

«Bitcoin is a very interesting subject because for many years in Congress I was a champion of legalizing competition in currencies,» wrote Paul.

Today, the history of eSports continues to write itself, as media giants such as ESPN and Turner broadcast eSports tournaments and competitions where major cash is on the line.

«If war and revolution marked the last century, the competition for prosperity and the marketing of ways to enjoy that new wealth is moulding the early years of the 21st century,» Becker writes.

«My understanding is that certain Democrats in the Senate have instituted the very recent and preliminary investigation of Amazon's possible adverse impact on competition,» he wrote.

«Amazon's proposed acquisition of Whole Foods raises important questions concerning competition policy, such as how the transaction will affect the future of retail grocery stores, whether platform dominance impedes innovation, and if the antitrust laws are working effectively to ensure economic opportunity, choice and low prices for American families,» Cicilline wrote.

Knowing what the competition is up to is a strategic business activity and one that can help to make the task of writing much easier and quicker.

And with the investment sales market getting pummeled, many of the institutional players that would normally be lending on acquisitions or writing checks for construction loans have turned their attentions to the inventory market, increasing competition and bringing pricing down for those loans.

Or, as the Guardian's Alex Hern wrote, it's «a competition to waste the most electricity possible by doing pointless arithmetic quintillions of times a second.»

In 2002 or so I wrote a paper titled «Upstairs, Downstairs» (still a working paper) which showed that floor traders earned a rent as a result of their time and space advantage: upstairs traders could not supply liquidity as effectively as floor traders due to their information disadvantage, and this meant that floor traders faced limited competition in supplying liquidity.

«One problem with American capitalism has been overlooked: a corrosive lack of competition,» wrote The Economist in March, summing up these concerns.

The history writing that results from these new perspectives is anything but placid, since competition among champions of the various groups can be severe.

But no sooner had people written such a scenario than questions began to arise: If you eliminate conflict and all forms of competition, will you not eliminate creativity?

Science has so thoroughly swept the field of competition that, as Irving Kristol wrote a few years ago, «theology has practically ceased to be a respectable form of intellectual activity.»

As Thomas Haskell once wrote: «If there is no such thing as truth but only a variety of incommensurable perspectives in criterionless competition with one another, then force and persuasion become indistinguishable, cutting the ground out from under any politics based on consent and representation.»

The first day of this year's competition was January 27, and featured essay writing, speeches, and interviews.

According to the Random House website, 1,122 blogs entered in this year's competition and five finalists were announced in each of the competition categories: Lifestyle (408 entries), Personal / Parenting (350 entries), Business (84 entries), Commentary (119 entries) and Words / Writing (161 entries).

Andy Housholder, who won 14 out of 18 chili cook - offs in eight years, wrote that cubed meats win ninety - five percent of chili competitions.

He writes for many wine publications including Decanter and The World of Fine Wine, judges about ten wine competitions a year in Australia and overseas, and is involved in judging or contributing to many other wine activities, including chairing the biennial Vin de Champagne Awards and various other competitions, also working as a panellist for SIPNOT (Stonier International Pinot Noir Tasting), a member of the judging panel for the annual Winemaker of the Year Award and various others.

«This disparity,» USDA wrote in the proposal, «causes consumer confusion about the meaning of the USDA organic label, threatens to erode consumer confidence in the organic label more broadly and perpetuates unfair competition among producers.»

«The International Chili Society,» he wrote, «has written agreements with all competitors in its chili cookoffs which provides for the assignment of exclusive rights to the publication of any recipe used in the competition.

(Which, of course, I already know from writing a little story on judging food competitions.)

Please contact [email protected] with your name, which position you are interested in, along with a brief writing sample relevant to your club or competition of choice (see below).

In turn, that will surely give them plenty of confidence of continuing to write their names into the history books as this is the furthest that the club have been in Europe's premier competition.

Several big - name Chelsea midfielders have been linked to moves away from the club — particularly Eden Hazard, who has just one goal in 32 competitions as of writing.

As for Ospina, I recall a certain Manuel Almunia displacing Jens Lehmann in one season and once Lehmann was out of the way the next season, he became a flop, that had lack of serious competition written all over it.

The international swimming authority, FINA, wrote the Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA) in January and warned that any swimmer who is unavailable for out - of - competition testing more than two times faces suspension.

His manifesto at the Australian Open was heartfelt (and awfully well - written, especially for an athlete in the midst of competition) but fraught with gaping holes in logic.

With Stowell, learning quirky and mundane tidbits about her felt like a refreshing distraction from the elephant in the room: she wrote homework questions, despite wanting to avoid homework in high school; she was part of a lab group that focused on eating competitions; she had a nail polish collection; she loved watching terrible movies; she used to play rugby, realized she wasn't good at it, and then switched to ultimate frisbee.

As of the time of this writing, Jacobson's nearest competition comes in the form of Nathan Green, who is currently at eight - under par.

Next is PSG, different competition if we draw that one, I have to write Arsenal chances of winning the title.

I wrote a 0.60 competition report on the Six Nations — here is my end of tournament report and gradings — table order as always.

«Having been part of the GB Cycling Team for over 10 years, travelling around the world racing my bike, today I am announcing my retirement from international cycling competition,» she wrote on her website.

Reporting the following week, the Burnley Express correspondent wrote: «If there were a roll of honour whereon could be inscribed in golden letters the most meritorious deeds of any club, irrespective of whether they be in the competition embraced by Cup or League, then the performance of Burnley at White Hart Lane would be given most careful and special recognition.

Having sampled the atmosphere at and read the stories after a variety of games recently, Pat Nevin writes about football when the competition is hot...

We had to make vegetable monsters for a Halloween competition at school last week, so I took the opportunity to try and teach my youngest child the names of some vegetables and how to recognise the name when written down.

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