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Why Our Contests Are Different There are hundreds of "student writing contests." Here are the problems that we have found with other contests. Many of them are scams that say they are a contest and then accept every entry with the expectation that you will buy a book. Some companies don't have a contest and they just publish entries. This philosophy doesn't reward students for their creative writing. Several companies sell their books for over $40 and it can take up to 9 or more months to receive the anthology. Some companies never deliver a book and take your money and disappear. Several companies have entry fees. Many companies don't send the student a copy of their entry so that they can make corrections before it is printed. Many companies don't keep the teachers informed about the results of the contest. Here are the Top Ten things that make Creative Communication different. No entry fees. In publishing our anthology we reject more entries than we accept. Our philosophy is to be selective enough that it is an honor to be included, but not so exclusive that it is discouraging to enter. To decrease any "pressure" that a young writer may feel to purchase an anthology we donate a free book to any teacher who has 5 or more students accepted to be published. This allows a student to see their work in print without making a purchase. We contact each teacher who has a student accepted to be published 3-4 days before any of their students are contacted. This keeps the teachers informed with what is going on with the contest. At that time we provide the teachers with a list of their students that have been accepted to be published. We send each student that is accepted to be published a letter, a certificate of acceptance and a typed copy of their entry. This allows them to see their entry exactly how it will appear in the book. They can make minor changes or corrections to their entry before signing the proofsheet to give us permission to publish their entry. Schools and teachers receive special recognition by receiving a Writing Achievement Award. This award is given to the top 10% of the schools who enter our contest. This award entitles each school to receive a certificate of achievement, a free copy of the anthology with their students' entries included, special recognition in the front of the anthology with the school's name and location and the teacher's name who helped the school earn this recognition. Schools that receive a Writing Achievement Award qualify to apply for over $17,000 in Language Arts Grants we award each year. We award over $70,000 to young writers each year and top ten winners of the contest receive a free book that includes their entry as a "Top Ten Winner." We produce a professionally bound hard backed anthology for under $25. We have been around since 1993 and our goal is to keep every student, parent, teacher and school satisfied. We ship every book that is ordered and we have a no questions asked satisfaction guarantee with every purchase. You do not need to purchase an anthology in order to be published or to even win a prize. Need we say more? Our goal as a member of the Better Business Bureau is to provide a positive experience for every student and to go beyond everyone's expectations.