Jibber Jabber - Q1 - Volume 33

[Ishmael]

I contrived to miss that Athena is also in the running for published finalist. Good luck to you too!

[disgruntledpeony]

Good luck, Rebecca and Athena!

[OldDarth]

Congrats everyone! Now onto to the next stage of waiting....

[KD Julicher]

Congrats Sean and D Stein! Now comes another, less tense, wait!

And commiserations Athena and Rebecca. Been there. Got the tshirt. You'll get another shot, as long as you keep submitting. Guaranteed.

[rharp]

Congrats DStein and Sean! Awesome news! And good luck on PF Rebecca and Athena!

[emilymccosh]

Congrats, congrats, congrats everyone!!!

[kentagions]

Congratulations!

[reigheena]

woohoo! Congrats everyone!

[dstein]

Congrats everyone! Now onto to the next stage of waiting....

Is it weird that I'm not that bothered about whether or not I actually get the grand prize? I mean, the $6k is nothing to sneeze at, but I'm so over the moon about being published that getting the grand prize would just be gravy. If I was given a choice between taking $10k and having my story in the anthology, I think I'd choose the latter.

And this is even sillier, but frankly I'm sort of relieved that I'm not eligible to submit anymore. This is a wonderful contest but it's time for me to finish my book!

[hazlett]

For me, the timing of this announcement couldn't have been better.

A few months ago, Baen notified me they were holding my novel for further consideration. I'm hoping the publicity from this win might increase the likelihood they decide to purchase it. After all, buying a novel is as much a commercial decision as it is a literary one.

[dstein]

Good luck! I feel like the publicity from WotF might help with Baen in particular; both are still fond of a certain type of heroic genre fiction.

[MattDovey]

Huge congratulations, Mr Stein & Mr Hazlett! Welcome to the club

And congratulations also to Rebecca & Athena, because hot dang, you made finalist. That's huge. I know this is gonna sting right now, but once you're at this stage, it is entirely down to the judges' taste. Every one of the 32 finalists in a year is good enough to win the whole shebang. This says nothing about the quality of the work, and is all about the judges Joni had for this quarter.

And dstein--you say you're not bothered about the big prize, but when you're sat there at the gala, and the red envelope is brought out, your heart will be pounding like Mjolnir on the unrighteous. Trust me

[hazlett]

Huge congratulations, Mr Stein & Mr Hazlett! Welcome to the club

And congratulations also to Rebecca & Athena, because hot dang, you made finalist. That's huge. I know this is gonna sting right now, but once you're at this stage, it is entirely down to the judges' taste. Every one of the 32 finalists in a year is good enough to win the whole shebang. This says nothing about the quality of the work, and is all about the judges Joni had for this quarter.

And dstein--you say you're not bothered about the big prize, but when you're sat there at the gala, and the red envelope is brought out, your heart will be pounding like Mjolnir on the unrighteous. Trust me

Thanks, Matt!

[Galen]

Congratulations Sean and DStein. Following the jibber jabber threads I've seen how you have both worked your tails off (well maybe indirectly surmised...)

One more reason to look forward to the anthology! I hope you will all continue to drop by from time to time to share stuff you have learned.

[klaatu]

Congratulations both Sean and DStein.

And sorry to those who missed out. Hopefully a revisit to Finalist land will be sooner rather than later.


Steve

[Joshua Essoe]

Congrats winners! Good luck on PF, finalists! What excellent news!

[Muri McCage]

Congrats Hazlett and DStein. And good luck with Baen, Hazlett! Very cool.

Good luck as well, Athena and Rebecca! Huge accomplishment, either way.

[storysinger]

Does anyone know the third winner?

[dstein]

Does anyone know the third winner?

Joni mentioned somebody, and apologies if I'm not remembering correctly, but I think it's a woman from the UK who isn't a forumite here?

[hazlett]

Does anyone know the third winner?

Joni mentioned somebody, and apologies if I'm not remembering correctly, but I think it's a woman from the UK who isn't a forumite here?

Joni told me that the other two winners were from Utah and Durham, U.K.

My apologies, dstein, but I can't recall if you were from Utah or the U.K.

[dstein]

Does anyone know the third winner?

Joni mentioned somebody, and apologies if I'm not remembering correctly, but I think it's a woman from the UK who isn't a forumite here?

Joni told me that the other two winners were from Utah and Durham, U.K.

My apologies, dstein, but I can't recall if you were from Utah or the U.K.

Unless the gin is misleading me (seriously, Wednesday night is a bad time for this), I wanna say I'm from Utah?

Seriously though, yeah I'm from Orem UT, so process of elimination locates yet-to-be-named winner #3 at Durham.

[MattDovey]

Glad to know there will be at least one person to make good use of the kettle I made ASI drag out of the cupboard so Rachael & I could have proper boiling water for our tea

[Ember]

Congratulations Sean and D Stein. Will you put your results in the results thread, or is there some forum etiquette that winners don't do that?

Athena and Rebecca, so close! So so close! What horrible rollercoaster ride this quarter must have been. I bet at least you'll be able to take both those stories and turn them into a great sale (if they're not published finalist of course).

[Randy Hulshizer]

Do you think they'll ever post the Q1 results to the blog like they used to? Seems like they haven't posted anything there for a long time.

http://www.writersofthefuture.com/category/blog/

[Randy Hulshizer]

Q1 Winners Posted on Facebook:

Congratulations to the First Quarter Writer Winners to be published in Writers of the Future Volume 33!!
#1
Dustin Steinacker
Story: Envoy in the Ice
From: Orem, UT
#2
Sean Hazlett
Story: Adramelech
From: Pleasant Hill, CA
#3
Anton Rose
Story: A Glowing Heart
From: Durham, United Kingdom

[emilymccosh]

Q1 Winners Posted on Facebook:

Congratulations to the First Quarter Writer Winners to be published in Writers of the Future Volume 33!!
#1
Dustin Steinacker
Story:
From: Orem, UT
#2
Sean Hazlett
Story:
From: Pleasant Hill, CA
#3
Anton Rose
Story:
From: Durham, United Kingdom

They gave away the name of the first place story??? What happened to the Golden Pen Judging???

[amoskalik]

Q1 Winners Posted on Facebook:

Congratulations to the First Quarter Writer Winners to be published in Writers of the Future Volume 33!!
#1
Dustin Steinacker
Story: Envoy in the Ice
From: Orem, UT
#2
Sean Hazlett
Story: Adramelech
From: Pleasant Hill, CA
#3
Anton Rose
Story: A Glowing Heart
From: Durham, United Kingdom

They gave away the name of the first place story??? What happened to the Golden Pen Judging???

I was wondering the same thing.

[LaurieG]

The Golden Pen Award is the grand prize, chosen from the 1st place winners of each quarter, and announced at the annual awards ceremony.

[Randy Hulshizer]

The Golden Pen Award is the grand prize, chosen from the 1st place winners of each quarter, and announced at the annual awards ceremony.

I think the point is that they usually do not divulge the titles of first place stories until after the Golden Pen winner has been chosen.

[MattDovey]

I suspect Joni will be rather... frantic when she finds out it's been posted like that (it's not her behind the social media stuff). I left a comment questioning it on the Facebook post, and if it doesn't change in a few hours I'll send some emails...