It’s Official! Come See Who Made the Finals in the 2017 RPLA

Drum roll! The scores are in, and the finalists have been named for the 2017 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition.

RPLA is a service of the Florida Writers Association established to recognize excellent in members’ published and unpublished works while providing objective and constructive written assessments for all entrants. More than 40 genre-categories are recognized, including youth (youth winners’ announcements are separate).

The categories cross the broad areas of fiction and nonfiction—short works and book-length, as well as poetry, plays, and submissions in a “general catch-all” category. For each category, published and unpublished entries are judged separately.

Now it’s nail-biting time. The winners won’t be announced until the Awards Banquet October 21, 2017, which is held during the annual Florida Writers Conference that runs from October 19-22. The Banquet is a big deal, with winners’ pictures flashed on giant screens and all kinds of fanfare. (Here’s a video on the FWA website showing Banquet moments from last year.)

If you’re registered for the whole conference shebang or just for the day, the Banquet is included. You may also register only for the Banquet. Oh! And you may bring guests to the Banquet, whether or not they are FWA members—family, friends, no limit to the number of people who can share the special night.

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Adult 2017 RPLA Finalists