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Date: 06/16/2004
Author: Amy Burton
Subject: HarperCollins Children’s Books Names Mississippian Sarah Holmes Winner of Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Amy Burton, Publicity Director
212-261-6796
amy.burton@harpercollins.com

HarperCollins Children’s Books Names Mississippian Sarah Holmes Winner of Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest

NEW YORK (June 15, 2004)—HarperCollins Children’s Books today announced that it has named Sarah Holmes of Columbus, Miss., winner of The 2004 Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest. Holmes’s winning book, titled Letters From Rapunzel, earned her a $1,500 cash prize and a book contract with a $7,500 advance. Selected from more than 300 entries, Letters From Rapunzel is scheduled to be published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in Spring 2006.

“In order to honor Ursula Nordstrom and her mission to find new voices, we were looking for a manuscript with a fresh and innovative idea, a stand-out middle grade voice and a writer with the potential to have a successful publishing career with HarperCollins. We found all of this in Sarah Holmes and Letters From Rapunzel,” said Susan Katz, HarperCollins Children’s Books president and publisher.

Holmes’ funny, tender novel centers on 12-year old Rapunzel, whose father is missing. She doesn’t know how to get him back but she’s got a feeling that an old friend of his might have the answer she’s looking for, so she starts writing letters to mailbox #5667, and an unbelievable journey begins. 

HarperCollins received more than 300 novels from writers nationwide, including members of SCBWI as well as candidates and graduates of creative writing and MFA programs. A panel of judges from Harper’s editorial staff narrowed the submissions down to three finalists, and Harper’s editorial directors made the final decision.

HarperCollins Children’s Books established the Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest in November 2003 to encourage new talent in the writing of innovative and challenging middle grade fiction. Ursula Nordstrom (1910-1988) was director of Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940-1973 and published many of America’s most beloved middle grade writers, including Mary Rodgers, E.B. White and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

HarperCollins Children’s Books is one of the leading publishers of children’s books. Respected worldwide for its tradition of publishing quality books for children, HarperCollins is home to many of the classics of children’s literature including Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, A Light in the Attic, Charlotte’s Web and countless others. HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading English-language publishers in the world.
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