Calling all middle grade and young adult writers! Operation Literacy is sponsoring an international summer writing contest open to anyone thirteen and older. New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Purdie will be selecting the winners of this contest. The top three entries in each category will win an award certificate and feedback from a professional editor. Who: Writers 13+ (three age categories: 13–15, 16–19, 20+) What: The first 1,000 words of your middle grade or young adult novel When: June 15–August 31 Entry Fee: $29 Winners will be notified by September 15. See submission rules and guidelines linked below 😎 https://teenauthorbootcamp.submittable.com/submit

Seeing my debut featured on a BookBub deal this morning is… possibly one of the greatest Wins I have ever had in my life 🙌🏼

A Google doc has been created. I think that’s all for today. We will do more tomorrow. Haha!

Hi everyone! I'm Shion Carter. I am a senior studying Communications - Digital and Social Media and an author. I've been published three times through Owl Hollow Press from StoryCon's wonderful teen anthology contests, and I am working on my own novel and novella. I love everything artsy from photography, videography, drawing, writing and acting. I also adore the color yellow and am semi-fluent in Spanish! I believe Renegades by Marissa Meyer is one of the most underrated series for middle grade fiction, and I didn't learn proper grammar for writing until I was in college and started tutoring for the freshman grammar class. I absolutely adore the StoryCon community and I'm so excited to be a part of it here with all y'all.

Some of you already know about my fantasy comedy series, The Legend of Uh. It's been making rounds in the indie fantasy social media space and it's gathered a really spirited following. Over the weekend, book one (The Legend of Uh) passed 1000 ratings on Goodreads, and book two (The Second Legend of Uh) passed 100 ratings after being out for less than three weeks! I'm thrilled! Big thank you if you were one of those ratings!