Spring, 2005
24-Hour Short Story Contest
Winners!
The next contest still has openings.
Contests always fill up so sign up today!
Entry form is here
1st Place
I Thought I
Was Happy But Now I Get to Eat Bacon Cheeseburgers on Friday Nights
by Elda Martinez, Austin, Texas
What Elda 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
-- How to Write, Publish and $ell Ebooks
-- How to Publish a Profitable Emag
-- How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Special (includes the book;
database of 6000+ newspapers; and database of 100+ syndicates)
2nd Place
Fair
Game
by Molly Wright, Columbia, MO
What Molly 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
-- How to Write, Publish and $ell Ebooks
-- How to Publish a Profitable Emag
-- How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Special (includes the book;
database of 6000+ newspapers; and database of 100+ syndicates)
3rd Place
Helmut
and Marigold
by Chris Haraway, Las Vegas, NV
What Chris 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
-- How to Write, Publish and $ell Ebooks
-- How to Publish a Profitable Emag
-- How to Be a Syndicated Newspaper Columnist Special (includes the book;
database of 6000+ newspapers; and database of 100+ syndicates)
20 - Honorable Mentions (In no particular order):
The Rescue by Christopher T. Werkman, Haskins, OH
The Key by Dan Morris, N. Bellmore, NY
In the Sweet By and By by Derrell B. Thomas, Norwalk, CA
It All Adds Up by Diedre Lemp, Carmel Valley CA
The Riddle by Justin Dimmel, Ashby, MA
A Break in the Storm by Sandy Senay-Ellefson, Las Vegas, NV
It Was My Pleasure, Never Mind the Hole in The Floor, Don't Forget To Write...
by Frank J.A. MacKay, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
The Classics by Jennifer Doloski, Seneca, IL
An Old Woman at the Square Dance by Lecia Wood, Colorado Springs, CO
The Family Nose by Judy Robel, Johnsburg, IL
My Father, My Maestro by Melanie Meadors, Marlborough, MA
Priceless by Nigel Spriggs, Eastleigh, Southampton, England Quite a Cache
by Pat Detmer, Newcastle, WA
The Yearbook by Peter Kashatus, Washington, DC
Crazy Uncle Reggie by Randy D Pearson, Lansing, MI
The Journey by Sam Burnham, York, NE
The Unsaid by Christina Stachura, Novi, MI
The Storyteller's Secret by Tammy Gray-Searles, Holbrook, AZ
A Change of Plans by Tammy Murray, Pawtucket, RI
Savannah by Thomas Rice, Buffalo, MN
Honorable mention winners receive a one-year subscription to The Write
Markets Report and a single e-book of their choice from our bookstore
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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!
5 - Freelance Income Kit
Kristen Held, Bloomington, IN
Patricia J. Weaver, Florence, AL
G. Mark LaFrancis, Natchez, MS
Lara Plamann, Appleton, WI
Paul R. Lenihan, Mokena, IL
15 - One year subscription to The Write Markets Report
Sheila Renfro, Muscle Shoals, AL
Jean Prestbroten, Orfordville, WI
S. K. Van Zandt, Millsap, TX
Stephanie Cunningham, New Rochelle, NY
Mark R. Coppock, Lake Zurich, IL
Jeff Wolfe, Nanticoke, PA
Pamela Suarez, Miami, FL
David Benskin Macks, White Bear Lake, MN
Dee Churchill, Langlois, OR
Joan Bard Miller, Gatineau, QC, Canada
Amy Green , Garland, TX
Terrilyn Fleming, Colby, KS
Lisa Miller, Lowell, OR
Kati Corlew, Chicago, IL
Karen Ann Jacobs, Fontana, CA
5 - copies How to Publish A Profitable E-mag
Vanitha Sankaran, Livermore, CA
Caryn M. Gracey, Thornton, CO
Lois McElravy, Missoula, MT
Monte R. Anderson, Aurora, IL
Michele Reynolds, Holyoke, MA
7 - copies of Query Letters That Worked
Nikaya Dahn Smith, Roanoke, VA
Melissa LaRae Nelson, Chandler, AZ
Barbara K. Nixon, Boynton Beach, FL
Barbara Pattee, Livonia, MI
Meg Westley, Stratford, ON, Canada
Heather Jensen, Cheyenne, WY
Cathleen Baldwin, Holly Springs, NC
30 - GRAB BAG!
Dorry C. Pease, Pevely, MO
Kathy VanWey, Fremont, OH
Ed Davis , Catonsville, MD
Jane Endacott, Portland, OR
Tilly Lavenas, Uplyme, Dorset, England
Laura Davis, Brewster, MA
Susan Gladin, Hillsborough, NC
Charles Livingston, Federal Way, WA
Chris Corrigan Mendez, St. Louis, MO
Katrina Byrd, Jackson, MS
Gale Chester Whittington, Wetumka, OK
Rebecca Campobasso, Yucca Valley, CA
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Jane Roberts, Lynnwood, WA
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Michael C. Kenneally, St. Lous, MO
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Coletta Bly, Hartford, SD
Debbie Schukert, Edinburg, PA
H.B. Huisinga, Fitchburg, WI
Jane Barnes, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Gienna Shaw, Swampscott, MA
James Tate, Nederland, TX
Owen Klein, La Salle, ON
Canada Rebecca Wolfe, Nanticoke, PA
Carol MacAllister, Ocean Grove, NJ
Deborah Dionne, Framingham, MA
Ann Caputo, Medford, NJ
Judy Ingram, San Pedro, CA
CJ Lewis, Denver, CO
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