WINNERS! 2018 WRITING CONTEST RESULTS ANNOUNCED
"Top quality" prize winners, honorable mentions recognized
Ageless Authors Anthology is the only book of its kind, a collection of the finest short stories, essays and poetry, 52 winning entries from our recent contest exclusively for writers age 65 and older. The book makes a great present for people of all ages who appreciate good storytelling.
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MORE GREAT WRITING TO COME
Beginning October 15, we will accept submissions for the 2019 Ageless Authors Writing Contest. We will accept your outstanding writing through March 15, 2019. Also in October, we will publish our second anthology of the best writing from our last contest exclusively for senior writers age 65 and older. Very soon, you can locate the guidelines for this next contest on our Contests page.
Announcing the winners of the 2018 Ageless Authors Writing Contest.
Read about our master storytellers.
Volunteer judges are needed for future contests. Adults of all ages are invited to volunteer as judges here. Need more information? Email Larry Upshaw at larry@www.agelessauthors.com.
Check out the winners of our 2016 contest!
Read about Ageless Authors in an article by Cheryl Hall in the business section of The Dallas Morning News.
We Offer These Services to People age 65 and Older…
CONTESTS
Enter your best short stories, essays, poetry and artwork, win cash prizes. Feel the pride of authorship, impress your family and friends.
ANTHOLOGIES
Your best entries appear in our anthologies, available for purchase. These books are proof that the creativity keeps flowing with age.
PUBLISHING SERVICES
Want to publish a book but don’t know where to start? Now you can have editing, production, and promotional help from top professionals in the publishing business with a specialty serving senior writers.
Call to Action: Ageless Authors Sponsors Readings of Anthology, Other Works in Your Hometown
Most book signings highlight a single celebrity author, but Ageless Authors events are different. Our book readings/signings are meant to make celebrities of all senior writers age 65 and older, and we will help you set one up at your local bookstore or library.
We’ve already held such events in the home cities of our two directors. Larry Upshaw emceed a reading in the Dallas area of those published in the first Ageless Authors Anthology at Half Price Books in January. Five senior writers signed books purchased at the event and writers working on pieces for our current writing contest asked questions of the winners about the contest and how to submit their work.
Jean Yeager, our newest director with responsibilities in IT and promotion, expanded the concept with an open mic night at this local bookstore, Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont. Prior to joining the Ageless Authors staff, Jean was a first prize winner in the essay category in our first writing contest. He read his winning essay, “The Kite of Our Genius — Sail On.” He also invited local senior writers to read their work to an overflow audience at the town’s main bookstore, and 15 local people responded.
Other readings/signings/workshops are being planned for senior writers across the country. Events should include reading from the Ageless Authors Anthology and other works. We can help you set up the event, make sure the bookstore has copies of the Anthology, secure other readers and publicize the event.
For more information on these events, email us or call Larry Upshaw at 214 405-5093.
The Ageless Authors event was a big hit at Half Price Books in Dallas. These events are probably best held in bookstores, where the Anthology can be stocked and managers are often more receptive to publicizing the event.
Jean Yeager, seated front left, worked with the manager of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont to hold an open mic night of senior writings.
BOOKS FOR GROWNUPS
Some of the best literature is written by and for senior readers and writers. We are collecting the finest books available for our bookstore, BOOKS FOR GROWNUPS. Each week, the number and quality grow under the expansive banner of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Click on the genre you prefer and see what we are offering now. Come back next week and the bookshelf will have more content. All books are available on Amazon.
We recommend the books whose covers are featured below. These volumes are from authors associated with Ageless Authors. Those offerings will change regularly.
NEWS/BLOG
Volunteers Needed for Specific Ageless Authors Tasks
Like to contribute to the group but don’t have money to donate? If you have one of the following skills, your help would be greatly appreciated. Web development or the web savvy to post on a Wordpress website. Experience at manipulating the Ageless Authors section of...
Ageless Authors here for senior writers; Now we need your help
Ageless Authors is calling upon our ever-expanding senior writers community to help sustain the activities of the largest international elder writers group. We need donations of money or time...but mostly money. More than 1,500 senior writers have submitted essays,...
Seniors Given Freedom to Tell Us About Coping With Crisis
Seniors are being urged to use their stay-at-home time to write about their experiences with the pandemic by the world’s largest writers’ group dedicated solely to creative oldsters. “Coping With Crisis” is the theme of the current Ageless Authors Writing Contest...
Best Nonfiction Writers Emerge from Competition in Writing Contest
Ageless Authors honors 23 winning submissions in their highly competitive nonfiction category. Retired literature professor and world traveler Michael Riordan of Arlington, Texas took first prize with his story of a life reborn through an Asian adventure, “Horse Horse...
Top Senior Short Story Writers Honored in Ageless Authors Writing Contest
Ageless Authors announces the very best senior short story writers in our fourth annual senior writing contest. Playwright and screenplay writer Jean Yeager of Rutland, VT took first prize with his elegant and complex story, “Old Pirates of the Heart.” Second prize...
Poetry Results Announced in Latest Ageless Authors Writing Contest
Senior poets from across the nation are being honored as prize winners in the fourth annual Ageless Authors Writing Contest. Gordon Smith, a retired public school science teacher from Hot Springs, Arkansas, won first prize with his whimsical account of a funeral,...
Local media highlights first book reading/signing/workshop
With all the books being published these days, it's a wonder any of them get any notice. But our anthology, DANG, I Wish I Hadn't Done That, seems to be the exception. The Dallas Morning News recognized the book's position in two areas. It was mentioned a couple of...
Ageless Authors present award-winning stories at events from Texas to the West Coast
To celebrate the launch of our new anthology, DANG, I Wish I Hadn’t Done That, and herald our current writing competition, writers age 65 and older will read their works at events from Dallas to San Francisco in the coming months.
Ageless Writers Can Employ Some Unusual Strategies to Remain Creative
By Edith Cook
It is a universal truth that an ageless writer must constantly search for ideas that help us keep going, or give us the motivation to start again.
New Ageless Authors Writing Contest Deadline February 29
Short ... Everything. In a nutshell, that's the new Ageless Authors Writing Contest, which extends to Saturday, February 29. The categories of this contest are Short Fiction, Short Essay (Nonfiction) and Short Poetry. Stories for the first two categories are limited...
DANG A Work of ‘Courage and Vision,’ In ‘A New Literary Field’
DANG, I WISH I HADN’T DONE THAT, our collection of 34 stories and poems from the Ageless Authors Writing Contest, just received a rave review from OnlineBookClub.org of 4 out of 4 stars.
Ageless Authors Exhibits at Texas Book Festival
Once again, Ageless Authors will be selling our new book and writing contest at the prestigious Texas Book Festival, Sunday, October 27 in Austin, Texas. AA Executive Director Larry Upshaw will sell copies of DANG, I WISH I HADN'T DONE THAT and other senior moments...
Start Writing With A Manageable Project
By Edith Cook
You are aching to write the great American novel, or the life and times of a famous person you knew, or the definitive answer to the climate crisis, but can’t get started? Try a smaller project first.
Ageless Authors Director Speaks to Senior Groups
Larry Upshaw, Executive Director of Ageless Authors, speaks to senior groups about continuing to write into old age. Recently he told the Silver Leos writers everything they need to know about improving their writing at their monthly meeting at Texas A&M --...
Novice Author Publishes at 101 Years of Age
By Edith Cook
Creativity can be with us no matter our age, provided we continue to open ourselves to new ideas. This truism was recently affirmed by Sarah Yerkes of Washington,
Judging team leader Jane Giddan profiled, enters eighth decade
Author Jane Giddan is one of our most experienced judges. In our last writing contest, Jane led the Memoir category. She and best friend Ellen Cole are co-authors of 70Candles: Women Thriving in Their 8th Decade,
A laurel and hearty handshake for a winning friend of Ageless Authors
Few of us can live off the cash prizes, winning certificates and other “laurels” that accompany excellence in our senior literary experiences. But at any age, being honored does feed you.
Ageless Authors Awards Bivona Prize to Top Senior Writer
The Bivona Prize for the year’s most outstanding senior writing effort has been awarded by Ageless Authors to Portland, Oregon artist and writer Pattie Palmer-Baker.
Ageless Authors Plans Local Book Readings/Signings This Fall
Ageless Authors is planning a series of book readings/signings this Fall in major cities of the Southwest, Mountain West and West Coast. These events will celebrate our third annual writing contest and second anthology. If you have participated in any of our senior...
California Senior Writers Take Top Contest Prizes
Although the annual Ageless Authors Writing Contest attracts many hundreds of international submissions, four of the 15 winners announced for the 2019 contest are Californians. This contest, open to senior writers age 65 and older, awarded first, second and third cash...
Writing Contest Recognizes A Dozen Texas Senior Entries
Rosanne Gordon of Dallas won a cash prize in the 2019 Ageless Authors International Writing Contest, while Tank Gunner of Duncanville had two stories among a dozen honored entries from Texas writers and poets. The 2019 contest awarded first, second and third cash...
Whodathunkit? Anthology Delayed by Contractual Disputes
The anthology of best work from the 2018 Ageless Authors Writing Contest has been delayed due to contractual problems with some winning stories. The book was originally scheduled to be released in mid-February of this year, when Ageless Authors was informed about...
Ageless Authors Announces Winners In International Senior Writers’ Contest
Senior writers from across the globe have been recognized for their outstanding submissions to the 2019 Ageless Authors International Writing Contest. Links to contest results are available later in this article. Ageless Authors is a Dallas, Texas-based organization...
Try Adventure Writing With Ageless Authors
By John Tuttle
The adventure story has a fond place in many a heart, especially my own. Our lives are our own adventures, with every day a new path on which to trek into the unknown.
We Now Have A Book Doctor With Decades of National Media Experience
By Hugh Gardner
“Thus I set off on a 40-year odyssey that took me from one coast to the other, from Alaska to Patagonia. I had surprising good luck at writing for publication….
Fiction writers submit winners in Coping With Crisis – Fiction Contest
With his short story, "The Tale of Trot and Dim Johnny," writer Tom Sheehan took first prize in the 2020 Ageless Authors competition, Coping With Crisis - Fiction, receiving a $500 award and a certificate of achievement from the large international writers' group. The...
Nonfiction Writers Capture Awards in Coping With Crisis contest
Jan and Jefferson Helton of Commerce, Texas have won first prize in the nonfiction category of Ageless Authors' just-completed Coping With Crisis contest for their essay, Train (e)scape, The writing duo received a $500 award and a certificate for achievement from the...
Ageless Authors Announces Coping With Crisis – Poetry contest results
Canadian poet Dean Gessie has won first prize, a $500 award and a certificate of achievement in the Coping With Crisis - Poetry category of the just-completed Ageless Authors Writing Contest. Cash prizes and certificates were also awarded by Dianalee Velie of Newbury,...
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