Story Cartel Book Club reading listThis month, we're partnering with Story Cartel to host the Covering the Classics Contest (wow, that's a lot of C's), a contest to re-imagine the covers of ten classic books. These books will then be read as part of Story Cartel's new book club, an online community to read and discuss the classic books of yesteryear.

Here's the question: If you could re-imagine the covers of classic books, what would they look like?

This is your chance to put your personal mark on some of the world's most revered books plus win some cool prizes. Sound interesting? Read on for the rules…

Prizes for the Best Classic Covers

This could be a fantastic way for you to build your platform. For the winning designers, we will:

  • Publicize your name (or business name) in the book you covered
  • Post your winning cover on The Write Practice and Story Cartel and share it on all our social media pages
  • Share links to your blog, Twitter, and Facebook page

Winners will also receive the full Write Practice library, including:

  • #1 Amazon Bestselling Let's Write a Short Story
  • The Show Off Anthology
  • 14 Prompts
  • 15 Days to Write a Submit a Short Story 
  • And a part-humor, part-reference book about grammar that we're releasing soon

That's over $30 in prizes, in addition to the publicity for covering a book that will be read by thousands.

Author Jeff Goins and I will choose the winners. Jeff is the Amazon bestselling author of The In-BetweenWrecked, and You Are a Writer, and the creator of goinswriter.com.

How to Enter the Covering the Classics Contest

Entering is easy. First, design a cover for one of the following books on the Story Cartel Book Club Reading List:

  1. Emma by Jane Austen
  2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  4. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  6. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  7. Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
  10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

By the way, you have unlimited entries, and can choose to put your mark on one cover or ten covers.

Then, email your cover to classiccovers (at) thewritepractice (dot) com by Saturday, August 31 at 11:59 pm EST. That gives you three weeks to come up with your re-imagined cover. Again…

The deadline to submit your classic cover is Saturday, August 31 at 11:59 pm EST. You can submit your cover here.

Oh, and want to see what not to do? Check out these embarrassingly bad classic book covers.

How about you? If you could re-imagine the covers of these classic books, what would they look like?

Joe Bunting is an author and the leader of The Write Practice community. He is also the author of the new book Crowdsourcing Paris, a real life adventure story set in France. It was a #1 New Release on Amazon. Follow him on Instagram (@jhbunting).

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