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All you need to know about the Watty Award style contest that is just for retellings and stories heavily inspired by fairytales, folk tales, legends, myths, nursery rhymes, historical figures, and classic novels or plays! Fondly called the FCRAs for short. 

To enter your retelling in our contest, take a look at our rules and then just tag your story #FCRAs2016

This year's theme  for our special award category is People of the Sea!

But don't worry! There are plenty of other areas that a story could win in that has absolutely nothing to do with the special award category!

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