The Blog by Heather Howland
I found the details about these two competition on Health Howland's blog. You can read more at: http://www.heatherhowland.com/site/2010/09/two-big-publishers-open-to-general-ya-subs/#comment-228
Penguin Publishing
Full details can be found on http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/aboutus/index.html#question11
Usually their company policy is to not accept unsolicited manuscripts or synopses. However, for a limited three-month period from the beginning of August until the end of October 2010, they are inviting submissions to be sent in electronically to the following address: [email protected].
They don't want you to send in your manuscript but you should send them your covering note (Query letter) and synopsis in the body of the email - NO ATTACHMENTS!
Dorchester Publishing
Full details can be found on http://romanticreading.net/2010/09/12/what-im-looking-for-in-ya/
Editor Leah Hultenschmidt is looking for YA manuscripts and wants them fast. She's looking for manuscrips with a word count of 60,000-90,000. It can be any setting and genre so long as its aimed at older teens and has a strong crossover potential to the adult market.
She wants you to email her word documents as individual attachements for your send a synopsis and manuscript. She wants the manuscript because if you synopsis is good she wants to read the manuscript right away - no waiting.
Good luck to everyone that goes for this. I'm gonna do a final proof of my manuscript before sending in my manuscript and work on my synopsis.