After a week of reading and voting, clicking and tallying, the results are in!
Congratulations to Baltimore Bistro and Beer for running away with the voting with his piece on pale ale and writing self discovery! A second congrats goes out through the interwobs to JC, who I chose as my personal favorite for his clever and clean ars poetica.
I will send my edits of the stories to each winner sometime this week. In the meantime, they can send the second piece they’d like me to review to literatureandlibation@gmail.com. I’ll review anything – fiction, nonfiction, poetry – as long as it’s not like 50,000 words.
Thanks again to everyone who participated and made this first contest a success. I was honored to play host to your words and thought every individual piece was equal parts well done and well crafted.
An even bigger thanks to everyone who read and voted; I hope you enjoyed what you read, because I’ll be doing this again soon!
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Congratulations to the winners. Great entries, all around! Glad to hear there will be another one soon.
Thanks for writing for me, Phil. Hope to see your work in future contests, too!
This was such a great idea, Oliver, and I’m glad you plan to continue.
Thank Candace! Already got some ideas for the next one.
Oliver… what can I say? I am so pleased that I am off to the pub to celebrate and prop up that old bar! Thank you so,so much for running this competition and for choosing me as your favourite. I will send you an email with my piece tomorrow and am so excited to hear your comments.
Rest assured, I will drink a large one to your health (okay, maybe two)!!! Thanks again
JC, you are very welcome. I encourage you to submit again in future contests! Looking forward to reading whatever else you’ve got for me.
It was fun! Thanks for the opportunity to brag about my friend being on Broadway. Congrats to the winners!
Woo! Glad you had fun Melanie. How are you doing in the post Sentence Power void?
Well, I taught the Writing from the Gut seminar at Hopkins on Saturday, so still decompressing from that. I am very, very happy to be free right about now!
Today I started working on a short piece for a magazine and damned if I didn’t unconsciously revise to incorporate parallelism!
Oliver, thanks for doing this. It was a trip for me and a really great exercise. I haven’t challenged myself to write like this in far too long. And for anyone that voted for me a long the way, I really appreciate it. My second piece will be sent over shortly.
Finally, here it is: http://onewriterandhisblog.com/2013/06/18/an-editors-art/