70pit17 Middle Grade Winners

In the pg70pit contest, judges score entries based on the strength of their writing voice. These 69th/70th pages from unpublished manuscripts got the seven highest scores in the young adult category.

Agents may request queries, partials, or fulls in the comments.

The top seven scores are shared by ten entries.

70pit17 Young Adult Winners

In the pg70pit contest, judges score entries based on the strength of their writing voice. These 69th/70th pages from unpublished manuscripts got the seven highest scores in the young adult category.

Agents may request queries, partials, or fulls in the comments.

The top seven scores are shared by fourteen entries.

70pit17 Adult Winners

In the pg70pit contest, judges score entries based on the strength of their writing voice. These 69th/70th pages from unpublished manuscripts got the seven highest scores in the adult category.

Agents may request queries, partials, or fulls in the comments.

The top seven scores are shared by fourteen entries.

70pit17 Codenames Advancing to the Judging Round

Next time I will likely not do a lottery—I thought it would save me time, but I was very, very wrong 🙂

Most disqualifications came from too-long entries. I relaxed on some of the rules so that we could have 77 total entries in the YA and adult categories.

Have feedback on what worked and didn’t work this year? Please let me know.

MG

1. A dream within a dream
2. a little world made cunningly
3. A white flower grows in the quietness
4. A World of Pure Imagination
5. all the magic I have known
6. Amid this tangled web of fate
7. Being a foreigner, in my dreamland.
8. But I Must Have That Pony
9. Come hither, Son,” I heard Death say
10. Deep roots are not reached by the frost
11. Der Sommer war sehr gross.
12. DO NOT CATAPULT THE CARROTS!
13. Emperor of Ice Cream
14. Hope is the thing with feathers”
15. Hummingbirds Hover and Fish Flop
16. Hung in the golden Galaxy
17. I am his Highness’s dog at Kew
18. I refuse to give up my obsession.
19. I saw eternity the other night
20. I shot an arrow into the air
21. I’d rather play at hug o’ war
22. In that wild throb when all existences
23. is but a dream within a dream
24. Kid, you’ll move mountains
25. Learn well your grammar, and never stammer
26. Let me grow lovely, growing old
27. Love and marriage, love and marriage
28. Married at 19
29. Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
30. My life had stood a loaded gun
31. Nay, we are seven!
32. not with a bang but a whimper
33. Of lofty dragons belching flame
34. On the other hand, you’ve different fingers
35. Out of the ash I rise
36. Pass the salt I say, and yet
37. Rage against the dying of the light—There were two entries with this code name. One was disqualified.
38. she tries to teach me risk
39. strange things done in the midnight sun
40. That lie, as dark as afterlife
41. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker
42. The Haunted Palace
43. The joy, the freedom, of the mind.
44. The Lockless Door
45. the whittled fantasies of wooden cages
46. The yellow years have gathered fast:
47. There’s too many kids in this tub
48. They say I am safer here
49. Twas brillig
50. Two Roads
51. What have I done that you wouldn’t
52. your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;
53. Your ugly token my mind hath broken

Have feedback on what worked and didn’t work this year? Please let me know.

YA

Twinners Code Names (in alphabetical order)

Some potential Twinners had already been chosen for the lottery. These are the top ones that had not made it through the lottery on the first draw. So many great tweets!

1. All human things are subject to decay

2. And I Eat Men Like Air
3. Hope is the thing with feathers
4. Hulk hate paperwork! Hulk smash paper shredder!
5. I was asleep while you were dying.
6. Moon never beams without bringing me dreams
7. On Stars Where No Human Race Is

Scroll to the bottom for a word cloud of our favorite YA tweets!

Lottery Winners

1. a hole in the soul
2. A Kind of Measles Of The Spirit
3. A little learning is a dangerous thing
4. All That We See or Seem
5. And bobbing poppies flare like Elmo’s light.
6. And the tender fumbling of the surf
7. Away to the window I flew
8. Bloodied but Unbowed
9. but, having fallen, it was blood.
10. Cause we could take the bad stuff
11. Celestial onion
12. Cloudless climes and starry skies
13. Come hither, hither, pretty fly
14. Double, double toil and trouble.
15. Doubt thou the stars are fire
16. Fall, Gall Themselves, and Gash Gold-Vermilion
17. Freedom lies in being bold
18. Garden of ash and shame
19. half blade and half silk
20. hear the library humming in the night
21. His fingertips like tongues kiss my body
22. Hold fast to dreams
23. Hope is the thing with feathers
24. I do not resemble your other lovers
25. If I die Tomorrow
26. I hold with those who favor fire
27. I made an airplane out of stone
28. I see a shinning in the darkness under the rubble.
29. i’ve no patience for stars
30. In a Sieve they went to sea
31. In the haunts of goblin men
32. Let be be finale of seem
33. life from the roll of the dice
34. Listen to the MUSTN’TS
35. many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps
36. Measured out my life with coffee spoons
37. Miles to go before I sleep
38. My Words become Stained with Your Love
39. nobody, not even the rain
40. Nothing Gold Can Stay
41. Our laughter is muted by their agony
42. our love is more by far
43. Phenomenal Woman
44. red ones in a row
45. Reflections on a gift of watermelon pickle
46. She took me to her Elfin grot
47. Silver Girl
48. somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
49. soul selects her own society, shuts door
50. Stand up for the stupid and crazy
51. Summer Gleams and Glows
52. Swifter Than The Moon’s Sphere
53. Tell this soul with sorrow laden
54. The Best Witchcraft is Geometry
55. The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
56. The hell where youth and laughter go
57. The sorrows of your changing face
58. The Tender Protest of the Stars
59. the way that runs among the lost
60. The wings’ shades pursue the flying swallow
61. There is no frigate like a book
62. There’s a bluebird in my heart
63. This being human is a guest house
64. To lose – if One can find again –
65. Trouble deaf heaven
66. We’ll break taboo, and other stuff!
67. When the stars threw down their spears
68. While I am I
69. You will softly and suddenly vanish away
70. I think of you when shadows slant

Have feedback on what worked and didn’t work this year? Please let me know.

Adult

Twinners Code Names (in alphabetical order)

Some potential Twinners had already been chosen for the lottery. These are the top ones that had not made it through the lottery on the first draw. So many great tweets!

1. a joke before the rain
2. Looks on Tempests and is Never Shaken
3. Now let the night be dark
4. Oblivion is the name of this abode
5. That shall remain forever England
6. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells
7. The slithy toves did gyre and gimble

Scroll to the bottom for a word cloud of our favorite Adult tweets!

Lottery Winners

1. a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still
2. All too often my back betrays me
3. Beloved, what are names but air?
4. But oh, the agitated heart
5. Darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
6. Fear of my children’s handwriting on envelopes.
7. Her voice revives the leaden strings
8. isole di umanità erano dentro te
9. mama said I’d lose my head
10. miles to go before I sleep
11. Poetry fills me with sorrow
12. Six weeks our guardsman walked the yard
13. Straightaway the silver bird looked grave
14. The lonely belfry
15. Whose Woods Are These
16. A bride married to amazement
17. A clever man was Dr. Digg
18. Am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder
19. and I would rather look at you
20. And on the pedestal these words appear
21. And Shun the Frumious Bandersnatch
22. Annabel Lee
23. arriving wildbright and never again
24. But air just danced wrong around them.
25. but my words like silent raindrops fell
26. Cheat time, go home, or stay gone
27. Dance Like a Wave in the Sea
28. Death kindly stopped for me
29. Deep roots are not reached by frost.
30. Do I Dare to Eat a Peach
31. flame on flame and wing on wing
32. Frame me! Take the copyright from God
33. frog jumps in, sound of water
34. Gender Bender
35. Haunted By Ill Angels Only
36. hearts, Made weak by time and fate,
37. I know why the caged bird sings
38. I’m the enemy you killed, my friend
39. Listen to the voice that speaks inside
40. Lone and Level Sands Stretched Far Away
41. Love said, You shall be he
42. Most this amazing day
43. My sentence served in days long past
44. Not on His Payroll
45. One garland of flowers, leaves, thorns
46. Renewed shall be blade that was broken
47. shrill demented sparrows bark the sun
48. slowly evening comes
49. The Canals of Mars
50. The caustic ticking of the clock
51. The only leaf it drops goes wide
52. The world-spring running down
53. There are heroes who walk among us.
54. There in the little house roses bloom
55. There sat the Shadow feared of man
56. There’s trouble in the wind
57. Time’s too short for those who wait
58. To the delirious eye, more lovely things
59. Unable are the loved to die
60. Under the light of a thousand stars
61. Upper boulders in the sun
62. We are more alike, my friends
63. When Fortune mark’d me for her own
64. When the stars threw down their spears
65. Where the sidewalk ends
66. Which taught thy felon heart to feel
67. wrap them in a blue cloud cloth
68. Your freedom’s in a bind

Have feedback on what worked and didn’t work this year? Please let me know.

Word Clouds of Our Favorite Tweets

Young Adult

Adult

Have feedback on what worked and didn’t work this year? Please let me know.