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Fall, 2014
24-Hour Short Story Contest
Winners!

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Entry form is here

1st Place

Protection
by Laura Lovic-Lindsay

What Laura won:
$300 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website
1 - Freelance Income Kit Includes:
-- 1-year subscription to THE WRITE MARKETS REPORT
-- QUERY LETTERS THAT WORKED! Real Queries That Landed $2K+ Writing Assignments
-- BOOK PROPOSALS THAT WORKED! Real Book Proposals That Landed $10K - $100K Publishing Contracts


2nd Place

Bad Winter
by Nate Gutman

What Nate won:
$250 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website
1 - Freelance Income Kit Includes:
-- 1-year subscription to THE WRITE MARKETS REPORT
-- QUERY LETTERS THAT WORKED! Real Queries That Landed $2K+ Writing Assignments
-- BOOK PROPOSALS THAT WORKED! Real Book Proposals That Landed $10K - $100K Publishing Contracts


3rd Place

Sugar Maple
by Sara Lundberg

What Sara won:
$200 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website
1 - Freelance Income Kit Includes:
-- 1-year subscription to the Write Markets Report
-- QUERY LETTERS THAT WORKED! Real Queries That Landed $2K+ Writing Assignments
-- BOOK PROPOSALS THAT WORKED! Real Book Proposals That Landed $10K - $100K Publishing Contracts


22 - Honorable Mentions (In no particular order):

The Unfortunate Fortune by Eileen McIntyre
The Talisman by Monique Nagel
Reaping the Harvest by Chris Brewster
Be, Leaving by David Cashwell
Squeaky Wheels by Elysia Walton
Opening Words by Eric E. Wallace
Unaware by Jessica Pruitt
Hush by Karen Landry
Come and Sit a Spell by Laurie O'Connor Stephans
Grace is Gone by Mary Albarello
Silk Stockings by Marianne Dayton
Little Sister by Mary Girsch-Bock
Untitled by MMonica Bengtson
Set Free by Renee Holland Davidson
Equinox by Richard Herring
To Find Mommy by Robert J. Whitaker
A Strange Impulse by Sara Furlong
The Hunt by Thomas R. Manning
Misfortune by Thomas R. Martinez
Duality by Tim Impila
Colton by Tracey Lamphere
Dreamers by Trish Deitemyer

Honorable mention winners receive a one-year subscription to The Write Markets Report and a single e-book of their choice from this prize page.

If you are an honorable mention winner, please email angela (at) writersweekly.com to let us know which ebook you would like to receive.


DOOR PRIZES!

15 - One year subscription to The Write Markets Report

One Night Only by Hannah Lindsay
Leaving Home by Madison Morris
Unfulfilled by Madison Leone
Shadow Burial by Victoria Ann Carr
Tonight We Get What We Came For by Adrienne Andreae
The Road by Carona Michael Davis
The 9th dimension by Nina Martinez
Accelerating Fate by Corey LaBranche
A New Beginning by Darrell Caine Calhoun
Autumn Fades, Darkness Falls by Brandon Graham
Only O___s by Debra Sanchez
Oktoberfest by Georgia A. Hubley
The Tattered Layers of Life by Douglas Arnold
Creeps by Jeff Ferry
The Witch's Fortune by Jennifer Pohl

5 - Book Proposals That Worked: Real Book Proposals That Landed $10-$100K Publishing Contracts

Emotional Bonding by Jewel Star
Tag You're it by Karen Einsel
Pawn for a Queen by Katina Mooneyham
Remember Annie by Richena Holbert
Staying in Touch by Norma Klein

7 - Query Letters That Worked

Shuffle, Shuffle, Sniff, Whimper by Susie Talbot
The Trail by Warner Jones
Apple Pie by Stacey Browne
Call Of Duty by Sam Conley
A Bewitching Night in October by Deborah L.E. Beauchamp
Brujerìa by Robert Joe Stout
Circus Avenir by Audrey Mattevi

35 - GRAB BAG!

The Reading by Francisco Davila
Alyse and the Blustery Day by Ed Ratcliffe
Don’t Judge Appearances by Rachel Bass
Enough by Katherine Parr
Sheria's New Hope by Lillian Robinson
Fortune's Fools by Nathan Brewster
Repossessed by Monica Schroeder
The Fortune of Jack and Sally by Matthew Wilson
Anna Rose by Dale Ramirez
Hideaway by Sharon Smith
Trip to the Lake by Joy Cruz-Lentz
Darkness Is Coming by Lorette Ambrozewicz
Forgotten Fortune by Jack R. Mason
The Naysayer by Marybeth Jeitner
Dirty Business by Christy Lasiter
Fortune Most Fair by Sally Gillie
The Good Heart of a Carnie by Ethel Cook-Wilson
Maple Avenue by Rakel Joyce
What the Gypsy Said by Edie Schmidt
Abena by Susan Auclair
Untold Fortune by Stephen Armstrong
When Pigs Fly by Nadine Burgess-Sara
When No One Knows You by Sarah Squires
Three Messages by Christine Burks
Pulse of Evil by Andrew Dayton
The Lure by Lisa Michelle Slotnick
Economics: 101 by Chaleen Duggan
Decisions, Decisions by Lucy Williams
The Recipe by Cathy Rattu
The Stolen Child by Megan Lewis
Scruffy Bob the Gypsy, His Ugly Daughters and the Magic Root by Joseph E. Rathjen
Calamus by Ben Serna-Grey
Frozen Fire by Gail Schwartz
Goodbye Farm by Louise Bono
Mama Fortune by Kerry E.B. Black

Winners of grab bag get a single ebook of their choice from our prize list HERE.

If you are a grab bag winner, please email us at angela@writersweekly.com to let us know which single ebook you would like to receive.

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