Christian Writing Contest
Athanatos Christian Ministries is proud to host a Christian writing contest. The home page for the contest is: http://www.christianwritingcontest.com/
Updates:
The 2011 Short Story and Poetry Contest is currently being judged. Winners to be announced in June of 2011.
The winners of ACM’s 2011 Christian Novel Contest are:
1st Prize ($1,000 plus offer to publish) to Shirley Tucker, for her story, Diamonds in the Dust. ACM is also going to publish Shirley’s book. It will be released in the fall of 2011. Her website: www.diamondsinthedust.net
2nd Prize ($500 plus offer to publish) to Robert Abernathy for his story, The Walk to Walden Hill.
Bios and more information is available here.
The 2010 contest was a great success with more than 100 entries, literally from all around the world. The 2011 contest began accepting entries September 2010. Winners will be decided in the winter with announcements coming in the spring/summer of 2011.
The Athanatos Christian Ministries (ACM) Christian Writing Contest is an outgrowth of ACM’s desire to develop a genre of fiction that might be called ‘literary apologetics.’ Apologetics is the defense of the Christian faith. Literary apologetics would be the use of fiction and Story to communicate the Gospel and the world view associated with it. In this way, many readers might receive the Christian message and consider it whereas they might distrust it if presented propositionally.
ACM is an apologetics ministry, but one that encourages as many ‘methods’ as possible to defend the faith. The arts and literature are one area where the secular community used to reign supreme. However, this is changing, and ACM aims to facilitate that change. This writing contest is part of that strategy.
