Monthly Contest: Guest Editor, Show-Don’t-Tell Edition

Hey, wonderful
writerly people!

It’s time for Phenomenal First Pages, our monthly critique contest. But this is different than any contest we’ve had before. Winners will receive professional feedback on a page of their choice that needs help with show-don’t-tell…plus live coaching. How exciting is that?

Five winners will receive feedback on a page of their choice that needs help with show-don’t-tell…PLUS a 30 minute LIVE coaching/brainstorming session on Suzy Vadori’s Show, Don’t Tell Writing podcast!

*Together, you’ll brainstorm show-don’t-tell, but you’ll receive help in other areas if needed. You can check out Suzy’s podcast here, plus some popular episodes here and here.

Author, Editor, and Book Coach Suzy Vadori will provide detailed feedback on up to 250 words of writing, provide a 30-minute coaching session, and brainstorm any blocks you may be experiencing when writing your book! 

To get the most out of this experience: Don’t submit something you think is great already. Submit that one page where you have a niggling feeling it’s telling too much, it’s boring, or just isn’t working.

You’ll have a ton of fun brainstorming how to make your pages sing with Suzy while getting her always positive, incredibly supportive feedback, leaving you inspired and ready to keep writing.

Entering is easy. All you need to do is leave your contact information onthis entry form(or click the graphic below). If you are a winner, we’ll notify you and explain how to send us your page.

Contest Details

• This is a 24-hour contest, so enter ASAP.
• Make sure your contact information on the entry form is correct.
• Five winners will be drawn. We will email you if you win and let you know how to submit.
• Winners will send a page that needs professional guidance to Suzy within a week – and she will let you know when you’ll star in her podcast.  
• Unlike our usual monthly contest, this can be any page that could use show-don’t-tell help – it doesn’t need to be the first page.

The editor you’ll be working with: Suzy Vadori

Suzy Vadori is the award-winning author of The Fountain Series. She is a certified Book Coach with Author Accelerator and the Founder of Wicked Good Fiction Bootcamp. Suzy breaks down important writing concepts into practical steps to make it easy for writers coming from outside the industry to get up to speed in a snap, so that they can realize their big, wild writing dreams!

In addition to her weekly newsletter encouraging writers, and online courses, Suzy offers both developmental editing and 1:1 Book Coaching. Discover how to connect with Suzy and all the resources she has to offer here.

Find Suzy on her website, YouTube, Facebook, Free Inspired Writing Facebook Group, Instagram, and Tiktok.

You can find Suzy’s amazing Writers Helping Writers posts here.

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Good luck, everyone. We can’t wait to see who wins!

PS: Show-don’t-tell can be tricky to master. In addition to watching Suzy’s podcast, you can check out these helpful resources at Writers Helping Writers. Enjoy!

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Source: https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/show-dont-tell-contest-june-25/