Gerald reads his short story at the Odyssey Fantasy Workshop

NTSFW member Gerald won the National Grammar Day Short Story Contest sponsored by The Grammar Girl for his short story, “The Origin of Point of View in Paleolithic Epic Poetry”.

It begins, “The first story ever told was told in first person. It was told around a campfire by Ogg who raised both his fists into the air and exclaimed in a loud voice:  “I killed a mammoth!” Read the whole story.

The Mineral Wells Index reported, “Mignon Fogarty, the New York Times best-selling author who hosts Grammar Girl, said ‘I loved your story; it was clever and made me laugh’.” Mignon Fogarty read the piece in her podcast here.

Congratulations, Gerald!

Gerald says, “… some of you may remember; it took place on islands of plastic waste in the Pacific. That story was greatly improved for having been passed through our group.”

Gerald also placed in the Abilene Writers Guild Contest in poetry for a short poem, “From a Picture”.

Way to go, Gerald!!

Congratulations Gerald!

 1ST PLACE: Treasure of the Winged Serpent by Peter Keenan

2ND PLACE: The Watchers by Troy Young

3RD PLACE: Prairie Dogs and Faire Rings by Aelle Ables

HONORABLE MENTION: George by Del Cain

Congratulations to the winners!

And thank you all for your submissions. We  had so many good stories, it was difficult to choose! Thank you judges also for your hard work on our behalf.

We didn’t get the winners prizes distributed Saturday night, so that will be done at our August meeting, Saturday, August 8th.

Stay tuned for more contests and anthologies!

 Here’s your chance to get your short story spiffed up for the anthology.  Placing contest winners will be invited into the anthology (including Honorable Mentions!).

See our information page at http://www.ntsfw.com/?page_id=30 (see upper right corner menu

Email: NTSFW.Workshop@gmail.com  to submit your contest entry or get more info.

Good luck!
Alley
Contest Coordinator

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2008 SHORT SHORT STORY CONTEST!
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Theme: SPECULATIVE FICTION
Word count:  1400 words max
Deadline: Sat, August 9
Awards: Sat Sept. 13th
Dues: none
Send: submissons to NTSFW.Workshop@gmail.com

This short short story contest is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and FREE to enter.

Theme - stories must have a Speculative Fiction element.

Eligibility – all stories must be original and unpublished (in any media) and not under consideration by an editor, nor concurrently entered into another contest.  An eligible short story may not be withdrawn after the submission deadline.

Winner is to read story aloud at the bookstore.

Each author may submit 1 short story.

Formatting – please put contact information (name, address, email, phone) on the first page as a cover page, and your title/page# only on all subsequent pages. 

Required formatting is standard print format: 1″ margins, double space, 12 point Courier, Courier New, or New Times Roman font, indent paragraphs, etc.

FILE TYPE: TXT, RTF, or Word DOC (must be readable in Word 2000) (as an attachment, please do not put the story in the body of the email as transferring it to Word by copy/paste often loses formatting)

Awards: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable Mentions will be awarded Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm at the Hurst Barnes & Noble by Georgette Radford.

Each author retains copyright.  Each winner will be asked to read their winning entry on awards night, Saturday Sept. 13, 6pm at the Hurst Barnes & Noble Bookstore.

BOOKSTORE ADDRESS:

Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Shops at North East Mall

861 NE Mall Blvd
Hurst, TX 76053

Email the submission as an attachment to NTSFW.Workshop@gmail.com