Novel Novice Twilight is excited to announce our September-October 2009 Fan Fiction Challenge … with fantastic prizes sponsored by Simon & Schuster and Cassandra Clare’s hit trilogy The Mortal Instruments! This is the second time in a row we’ve brought you awesome prizes for our fan fiction challenges. Here are the details:

The Challenge:

For the Sept-Oct 2009 Fan Fiction Challenge: write a story about any of the Twilight characters meeting a character or characters from another popular young adult series (such as Harry Potter, Uglies, Vampire Diaries, Blue Bloods, His Dark Materials, etc. Other books or series are okay, too!)

Use your imagination & be creative!

The Prizes:

1st & 2nd place: Winners will receive a set of The Mortal Instruments books and a poster signed by author Cassandra Clare.

3rd place: Winner will receive a Mortal Instruments poster signed by Cassandra Clare.

All of our winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd & runners-up) will also get an awesome graphic banner to post with their stories, in addition to having their work posted right here on NNT!

(Want another chance to win a Mortal Instruments poster signed by Cassandra Clare? Tune in for our Back to School Week giveaways — all next week!)

The Rules:

• Stories must use proper grammar & spelling; any stories with frequent grammatical & spelling errors will be automatically disqualified.
• Stories should be at least 500 words long.
• For this challenge, you are allowed to break canon in order to work in your crossover subject
• Please keep the content of your story to PG-13 or lower rating.
• When e-mailing your story submission, you must attach the story as a Word document (.doc) or Text file (.txt).
• With your story, please include a title and your author’s name.
• For this challenge, you may only submit one story.
• Anyone is welcome to enter the contest, but please note: we can only send prizes to people living within the United States. Sorry.

How to Enter:

E-mail all entries to sara.novelnovice@comcast.net as a Microsoft Word (.doc) or plain text (.txt) attachment.

Do not paste your story into the body of an e-mail. Please use an attachment.

Don’t forget to include your author’s name and title of your story.

Deadline:

All entries are due by midnight (PST) on Saturday, October 31st.

Get more details on our Fan Fiction page.

You can also check out past Fan Fiction Challenge winners.

See more features on Cassandra Clare & The Mortal Instruments

The July-August Challenge is now closed. We’re busy reading the entries & will announce the winners soon!