In the pg70pit contest, judges score entries based on the strength of their writing voice. These fourteen 70th pages from unpublished manuscripts got the highest scores in the young adult category.

The fourteen winners are divided equally between this blog and Kaleigh Walter’s blog. Agents may request queries, partials, or fulls in the comments.

On Kaleigh Walter’s Blog:

1. Contemporary—Catch Me I’m Fallin’
2. Contemporary—They’ll Stone You
3. Fantasy—She blinded me with science
4. Contemporary—Swing Low, Sweet Cherry
5. Thriller—That this is not who I am
6. Science Fiction—Find a light inside our universe now
7. Science Fiction—Sing Softly, Above the Trees

Below:

1. Fantasy—The Most Beautiful Ship in the Sea
2. Contemporary—You sleep between East and West
3. Romance—The Girl with the Mousy Hair
4. Science Fiction—in all chaos there is calculation
5. Fantasy—An Open Book with a Torn Out Page
6. Science Fiction—The games you played, you’d always win
7. Contemporary—She will be loved

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