Quarter 4, vol. 29 - RESULTS POSTED

[Brad R. Torgersen]

4rd quarter, Writers of the Future - vol. 29
update on 3/6/2013

Winners:
First Place winner Christopher Reynaga of California
Second Place winner Brian Trent of Connecticut
Third Place winner Shannon Peavey of Washington

Published Finalist:
Chrome Oxide (pen name) of California

Finalists:
Alex Kane of Illinois
Brooke Wonders of Illinois
Kary English of California
Scott Parkin of Utah

Semi-Finalists:
Nikki Baird of Colorado
Aaron C. Brown of Missouri
Christopher Husberg of Utah
Samuel Marzioli of Oregon
Josh Morrey of Utah
John O'Neill of Virginia
Peter Shoemaker of New Mexico
Michael Smith of North Carolina

Honorable Mentions:
David Ahia of California
Daniel J. Alberts of Michigan
Stewart Baker of California
Jeffery A. Ballard of Texas
Josh Bennett of Colorado
Rebecca Birch of Washington
Trevor Boylan of Pennsylvania
Kristen Brown of Missouri
Jennifer Campbell-Hicks of Colorado
Dale Carothers of South Dakota
Vicky Chen of California
Linda Coffey of Canada
David Coleman of Australia
Veronica Dale of Michigan
Beth Dawkins of Georgia
Austin DeMarco of Pennsylvania
Preston Dennett of California
Genivieve Duda of North Dakota
Seth Easterly of South Carolina
Joshua M. Esso of California
Ryan Neil Falcone of Minnesota
Teresa Fedley of Missouri
Ethan Fode of Alaksa
H.L. Fullerton of New York
Melva Gifford of Utah
Dean Giles of United Kingdom
Ian E. Gonzales of Washington
Anna Goodling of Vermont
Brigid Gorry-Hines of Massachusetts
Mark Greer of Utah
Kent Hall of Kansas
Dan Hankner of Idaho
James Hanzelka of Utah
Laura Hardgrave of California
Amanda M. Hayes of Texas
Sean Patrick Hazlett of California
Ken Hoover of New Mexico
Daniel Jernigan of Sinapore
David Kernot of Australia
Holliann Kim of Maryland
Danny C. Knestaut of Pennsylvania
Cory Evan Laub of Florida
Robert Laughlin of California
Tuong-Phi Le of Texas
Mary E. Lowd of Oregon
Amanda McCarter of Oklahoma
David G. McDaniel of Florida
Darby McEachern-Corley of California
Stefon Mears of Oregon
S. Liam Meilleur of Louisiana
Michael A. Michel of Oregon
Grayson Bray Morris of The Neatherlands
Trudy V. Myers of Nebraska
Eric Nease of Canada
John D. Payne of Texas
Rebecca Rozakis of New Jersey
Martin L. Shoemaker of Michigan
Hank Shore of Minnesota
Becky Smith of Colorado
J.M. Tanenbaum of California
DB Tew of Kentucky
Colette Vernon of Arizona
Trent Walters of Idaho
Dave M. Wilson of New York
Gavin Wilson of United Kingdom
Chrisy Wissler of Washington
James Wymore of Utah
Anna Yeatts of North Carolina

Note: hat tip to Dustin Adams for gathering up all the names and sending them as a formatted text file. Thanks, Dustin!

[bobsandiego]

hah! I'm first!
Rejected.
truly I am shocked....I thought this was really good.

[docmagik]

Straight up R.

[dantzel]

Rejection.

[ThomasKCarpenter]

Rejection.

I knew I was dancing on some lines with this story but I had to send it. Oh well, off to the markets.

[wellsdesigned]

Rejected.

[AlistairKimble]

Rejection.

[morshana]

[Ember]

Rejection. Ouch.

[dr-phil]

Swing and a miss. And I'd gotten such good reactions from my first readers on this one.

Rejected 8
No Call 1 (USPS lost a whole bin of entries)
Finalist 3 (1 published in WOTF XXIV, 2 in one year)
Semi 2
SILVER H-M 1
Quarter 10
H-M 17 (Quarter+H-M = 27)
Total 42

Aw well, onward.

Dr. Phil

[Dustin Adams]

I'm out. Shocked by the names on this early list.
I'll sit back and cheer from afar.
And work on my Q1.
I can't even go to duotrope and update my submissions anymore. :(

[lsjohnson]

rejection. and i must say, for a story that i feel very good about, a story that's exactly the kind of thing i want to write, and that had really great beta responses . . . if this isn't DF's thing, well. i think i'll sit out q1 and mull this over.

commiseration to my fellow rejectees, congrats to the winners, and now i'm off to go bite my nails over three other "any day now" submissions (i've been on a roll this autumn).



ciao all!

[J. Scott Marlatt]

Rejection.

[CLDeming]

Rejected for me too.

[Kevin Ikenberry]

Rejection.

[kairi]

Rejection. Commiserations to other rejectees.

[Helen Jackson]

Rejection.

[klaatu]

Rejected.

[azap]

Rejected. This one was a particular heart break. Oh, well back to the drawing board. A Rejection means he did not read all the way through, so the problem must be in my opener. Happy holidays all.

[E.CaimanSands]

Do I even need bother adding my name to this list of ignominy?

[septimiuss]

rejection

[AWSullivan]

Rejected.

First quarter back after a few years of not submitting. Also, my first outright rejection since the first quarter I submitted back in 2008.

Next quarter already submitted.

Now I wait.

[Strycher]

Me too, me too! Rejection.

[katsincommand]

A big fat REJECTION.

[josephk]

Rejection.

[george nik.]

Rejection.

[permanentnovice]

Big R....but expected. The day of the deadline, I had 8 pieces out for submission and the only other one I had available was a piece of crap.

[Corbin Maxwell]

Rejection.

[WriteToLive]

Another R to add to the pile.

Here's to hoping I pro out before I even get an HM.

[Kary English]

Congrats to my fellow forum finalist Alex Kane. WOOT, Alex!!!

Oh, and me, too.



ETA: If more forum folk are on the list, maybe I just didn't recognize your real names. Congrats to ALL of the finalists!