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wotf058 And didn't win. This is my life :p Congrats Brittany on your making finalist too! Better luck next time! Congrats. That's 5 now? Awesome! wotf010 I have now passed Scott Parkin as the most-losing finalist ever. He won on his fifth try. That's definitely something! Persevere, everyone, and y...

And didn't win. This is my life :p Congrats Brittany on your making finalist too! Better luck next time!

It's been three weeks now since the first results were announced. I'm twitching for our forumite finalists. Hopefully you guys hear back really really soon! Crossing my fingers for you! I am sure that... they.... appreciate your well wishes, agree with the sentiment, and all of ... them .... who ar...

Well, here goes. Hi, my name is Kim, and I found out about Writers of the Future a few months ago. I haven't submitted yet, but I've got a story in the works right now (which I really should be working on...) that I intend to get in for the end of this current quarter. After that, it is my intentio...

Huge congrats on the SF! It's a great validation of your work. And apparently for you, a nice surprise!

I thought I saw this mentioned in some other thread but I wanted to confirm. Can you revise a previously entered story and enter it in another quarter if it wasn't a winner? Does it matter if it was an Honorable Mention? You absolutely can re-enter any story that earned less than a SF. Finalist sto...

I sold my one SHM from this contest to InterGalactic Medicine Show - after an R&R request. The editor there, like Dave, felt the story needed just a little something. Both of them were right, and the resulting story came out great. The only story I have resubmitted to this contest was an outrigh...

LittleRed wrote:Thanks TimE, OldDarth and everyone else I missed. Still got my eyes peeled for those lurking finalists and winners.
Bet you're hiding in here somewhere.

Congrats LittleRed! SF is a sign that you're teetering on the brink of making finalist. Just keep entering every quarter, and you'll get there!

I meant that Andrew and Wulf's stories were both in present tense, not first person! I haven't had my caffeine yet this morning. I'm guessing that's what they were referring to. Having read the anthology, in my highly biased opinion Wulf's story was the only one that needed to be present tense. I do...

Anyone listen to the latest podcast with Dave, Tim Powers, and OSC? They talked about judging for "this quarter." Do we think that's q1? If so, there was a little hint that a story told in present tense did well. Commence twitching. If it was Q4, the winning piece by Andrew Dykstal and th...

Do they leave a message if you miss the phone call? Or if you're like me, probably 19/20 phone calls are from spam or robots, so I never answer the phone unless I know the number. She'll leave a message. Also, for me, her calls show up as "Caller Unknown" and these days all the spammers s...

But I am getting very tired of the you-are-not-a-winner calls and I very much hope that next time I get the other call... It's gotta happen soon! Has anyone been a finalist more than you? Seriously!!!! I salute you wotf009 And I love that she calls instead of emails. She's personable, really encour...

Yeah, I think last quarter only took 2 weeks (or less really for the winners. Pretty sure I got my 'not a winner' call AFTER Moon. And how long ago did Dave say his part was done?). BUT that's quarter 4, where everyone is scrambling to get things finished for the anthology and whatnot. Could be. Co...

It occurred to me last night that, if Dave finished his job last week as he said, they would not wait on Joni to do her thing. They would go ahead with final judging. So we may get the whole kit and caboodle this week, winners and all. I think final judging takes awhile. It was about a month betwee...

And don't discount weekends! I got at least one of my finalist calls on a Saturday morning.

Back to legality, I wonder if using the same characters in different stories for two quarter entries is okay. Can anyone field this question? There's nothing at all in the rules about it. So you're clear there. If the story doesn't do better than an HM then I see absolutely no issue with using the ...

I think this is the time period between finalist being selected and the winners being selected. Not sure what they would do if a winner were disqualified or withdrew. The finalist stories are ranked by the judges. In the case of a winner being disqualified or withdrawing, I presume the award would ...

So... NOW it's time to start twitching.

(Disclaimer: I have no insider info that makes me think emails and calls are coming any particular day)

I'm cheering, Wulf and Preston! Can't watch live - we're going camping - so I'll pull up the vod on Sunday and catch you then!

I just read the interview that Preston did with May S. Ruiz. Ruiz says Preston is vying for the Golden Pen Award with his story. Are all winning writers eligible for the Golden Pen? I thought it was always some of them. ~Morgan If I'm remembering correctly, the four 1st Place winners vie for the Go...

Joni did say this week. wotf017 Do such proclamations often not come to pass? I certainly would understand them being overly optimistic what with the gala week and Dave's condition so defin not complaining. Out of curiosity, do finalists get the call the same day the emails roll out? Joni has been ...

Get your Q2s in! You still have two days, but don't wait until the 31st, get them in now!

If you "only have a flash and it's dark and not the stuff WOTF wants", enter anyway! You don't know what will take the judge's fancy, and better a long-shot than no entry at all.

On a different kind of disqualification--I've seen mentions of stories getting disqualified. Why would that be? 1. author already a pro? 2. story already published? 3. plagiarism? 4. story was ghost-written? All those would be reasons. Also if it doesn't meet word count, or has inappropriate langu...

Good news! Dave's pneumonia has cleared up, his new pacemaker is working, and he'll hopefully be released from the hospital soon!

But I hope he takes it easy and so I for one am just fine with Thursday being a few weeks off.

Interesting. I wonder why the change? There was a twitter thing about a year ago where some folks with grievances against the contest were getting pretty pushy. I suspect the contest administrators are trying to protect finalists from having well-meaning busybodies harass them to "warn" a...

aidanka wrote:So, do you think R with a request to send again is a regular thing?

I hate to say it but that's just a form email. The only specific feedback given is to the Semifinalists, who get a critique from Dave about why their stories didn't quite make Finalist. Everything else is just a form letter.

Who are the Vol. 36 finalist judges? I'm just curious-not presuming I will get anything other than an R my first try. Do they change every quarter? Every volume? Or is it a secret? This is probably a noob question and has been answered somewhere but I couldn't find it. You can find a list of all th...

Well Bugger - says person with long Q2 entry. My Q2 was long, as well, TimE. I am hoping beyond hope that it isn't rejected right off for the length because I consider it the best I've done so far. Mores the pity if it is . . . for me, anyway. <sigh> Note to self: <= 7K limits going forward. There ...

For those of us who have only gotten a rejection how do we know what we are doing wrong? Writing a fresh story and making the same mistakes over and over again won't really help us get any better. It actually will, because every time you write you improve. You should be reading, too, and reading wi...

(because everything even up to SF is still a rejection) Non-winning Finalist is a rejection too. Just a really, really high level one. And that's ok! This contest only publishes three stories a quarter, out of hundreds or thousands of entries. All we can do is make sure to get ours in and have it b...