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Our mission is to nourish new talent, reward excellence, and help writers achieve their dreams by giving them the tools to grow within their craft through feedback on both a peer and professional level, community, links, writing related classifieds, scam warnings, market research newsletters, publishing opportunities through Grace Notes Books and our affiliate publications who read all our winning entries and have often made publication offers not only to winners but to general users, and monthly cash prizes. 

We do not have genre restrictions at Grace Notes but we prefer works that seek to combine the art of "literary" writing with the craft of "popular writing". Works with a powerful sense of character, an edgy sense of humor, or a unique perspective will be most likely to grab our attention. Tired themes like detective stories, damsel in distress plots, and creature fiction are less likely to impress yet these have still been among winning themes in our monthly competitions. Therefore, we firmly believe that a unique style and creative execution can breathe new life into any theme and we never discourage submissions based on genre.

This organization was founded by writers with the intention of creating a single source for most (if not yet all) the needs of aspiring writers.