Finalists Announced This Weekend

[Andrew Gifford]

Stay tuned to this thread -- I'm expecting a list of finalists today, and I'll have them up as soon as possible.

[Andrew Gifford]

Okay -- I have the list of finalists.  From the names below, three winners will be selected.  Hopefully we'll know in a few days!  Stay tuned!


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Jim Sanderson – Faded Love

Kent Nelson – The Spirit Bird

Jacob M. Appel – Natural Selection & Hazardous Cargoes

Louise Aronson – Blurred Boundary Disorder

Genero Ky Ly Smith – Dailies

Sharon May – Last Song of Saravat

Doug Hundley – Finn Again

Jackie Zakrewsky – selections form “Coal Country & Elsewhere”

Iraj Isaac Rahmim – How I Came To Be an American

K.S. Crawford – Deep Breathing Under Big Sky

Philip Cartelli – On the Maroni

Will George – River Soul:  A Spiritual and Political Journey along the Arkansas River

Devon Ronner – Astonished

John Veague – Inventory of Lies

Valerie Hurley – The Thirty-One Rules of Love

Matthew Pitt – Listening for Life

Rinku Patel – Emergence

Joseph Conlin – Orlando Tales: Approaching the Shoals

Colleen Cooper De Maio – The Myth of Wile E.

Susie Meserve – In Huaraz

Matt Oliver – The Art of Bridge Building

Shura Young – Death in L.A.

Michele Mimont – The Twelfth Note

Jomo Merritt – Joshua and Julius

C.B. Anderson – A Brief History of the Sea

Anisse-Marie Gross – Body Cavity

Barbara Wright Carlson – Growing Up Wright

Roy Davis – Digging to China

Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela – Bootstrapping

James Marcotte – work in progress

Sandra Jensen – Redemption

Mark Havlik – The Wall & You Will Suffer Me

Michael Kaye – Heroes

Viv McDade – Soul Mate

Donna Steiner – The Loupe:  Meditations on Intimacy and Distance

Gail Chehab – A Red Fez for Her

Linda Simko – Heaven is Hot

Cassandra Passarelli – short stories

Paula Younger – Help Us, St. Jude

Tehila Lieberman – Reinventing Olivia

Susan Cushman – Blocked

Paulle Clark – Easter in Igloolik

Robert Goodwin – Expired Passports

George Newtown – Man Enough

Elizabeth Chase – Unwedding

Carol Culver Rzadkiewicz – Remembering Della and Objects Are Closer Than They Appear & Other Stories

Shelly Oria – The Bonfire

J.D. Boucharde – short stories

David Bishop – The Third Coincidence

Joan Spilman – This Will Never Stop

Al Sim – Los Huertos

Anquinetta V. Calhoun – The Meroe Stories

Steve Montgomery – What Then I Was

Phaedra Greenwood – Say It in Code

Ana Thorne – No Thank You, Otto Titzling

Sandra Smith-Bellissimo – I’m Tired and I’m Wearing Yesterday’s Mascara

Tom Ireland – Soledad

Katy Yocom – Tiger Woman

Jane Satterfield – Daughters of Empire: A Year in Britain & Beyond

Jan Kirsch – Letters to Eliza

Anne Whitehouse – Rosalind’s Ring

Addie Elizabeth Citchens – Inheritance

Jim Bulteel – Dark Backward

Stephanie Sandmeyer – work in progress

Iza Wojciechowska – Roots

Anne Welch – The Difference between Flotsam and Jetsam

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher – Beautiful City of Tirzah

Elizabeth Edelglass – Small Rotations of the Earth

Karima Diane Alavi – The Royal Purple Stigmata of Brilliance

Robert Couture – short stories

Michael Schiavone – Call me When You Land

Jill Battson – Strange Saints

Robert Begiebing – The Turner Erotica

Damian Van Denburgh – Increvable

Rae Paris – Love Lies

Emma Rainey – Freaks

Laura Loomis – Best Interests

Janice Wickeri – Mountains and Rivers Remain

Courtney Campbell – Hunter Orange

Amy Jenkins -- Shepherded Flights
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[cyberianexile]

Cool.  Lots of intriguing titles there!  I look forward to reading the winners in the journal.

I'm curious how many entries there were.  Do the finalists represent the top ten percent, five percent, or...?

[Andrew Gifford]

We had about 320 entries this year. 

[yremogtnomls]

Any word on the date winners will be announced?

[Andrew Gifford]

I hope to have the announcement sometime next week.  I'll update this thread as soon as I have everything in hand, and a newsletter will be heading out.

[Al Sim]

Hey, I'm on that list.

[Andrew Gifford]

Looks like I'll have everything from Mr. Butler in the next couple of days.  I'll post the winning names this weekend.

[Susan Cushman]

I just registered and am not sure what I'm doing ... learning my way around this forum. Just got a letter saying my work, "Blocked," is a finalist and they want to publish it at the online journal. I'm honored. Not sure of the best way to do this, but I'd like to link to my blog, so here goes: http://wwwpenandpalette-susancushman.blogspot.com/ I hope someone will let me know if that didn't work! You can email me at susanmaryecushman@yahoo.com.

I'm looking forward to seeing who the three winners are, and to reading the journal. Good luck to everyone!

[shibboleth]

Doesn't posting a list of finalists compromise the integrity of anonymous judging? R.O. Butler can easily connect title of work he's reading to name of finalist, through this list.

Just a thought.

[Andrew Gifford]

Doesn't posting a list of finalists compromise the integrity of anonymous judging? R.O. Butler can easily connect title of work he's reading to name of finalist, through this list.

Just a thought.

Well, he actually has selected the winners.  What I'm waiting on are for all of the materials to be returned, as well as any special instructions and notes that he may have or wish me to forward on to others.  But his final decision was made around the same time the finalist list was posted. 

So I'm waiting on a big box of manuscripts and marching orders and letters from him.  He's not much of an email person.

[Andrew Gifford]

Also -- a quick clarification on working with our literary journal at www.sfwp.org:  You'll be working with Cate McGowan, who edits the journal, and we won't be able to publish your entire entry as is. 

Please review the submission guidelines:  www.sfwp.org/submissions.php

Note that you are not required to submit your entry.  If you have a shorter work, then feel free to send that in. 

Cate is the final word on what shows up at sfwp.org. 

[Susan Cushman]

I didn't realize Cate might shorten our work before publishing it in the journal. Will there be a line indicating that the work has been shortened?

[Andrew Gifford]

Cate won't be shortening or excerpting your work.  We're asking the authors to submit the work to sfwp.org themselves, if they are interested in doing so.

I've posted some FAQ's right here:
http://sfwp.com/forum/index.php?topic=23.0

[Susan Cushman]

After I received your letter about being a finalist, I emailed Cate to let her know I was interested in having my essay published in the journal. I didn't realize I also needed to "submit" it to the journal. I suppose I'll hear back from her?.....

[Andrew Gifford]

After I received your letter about being a finalist, I emailed Cate to let her know I was interested in having my essay published in the journal. I didn't realize I also needed to "submit" it to the journal. I suppose I'll hear back from her?.....

Oh, yes.  If you've contacted Cate, then the ball is rolling.  She'll get back to you with details.

By "submit," I mean that we will not be using the hardcopy entry. We'll need a new, electronic version for posting at sfwp.org. I'm addressing your concern about the work being shortened. 

[Susan Cushman]

Thanks, Andrew. Forgive my plethora of posts about all of this... I'm new here! And what a great forum. Okay... this is fun but I've got some writing to do!

[Andrew Gifford]

No worries... Glad to be on hand to clarify everything.

[Andrew Gifford]

And the winners...

http://sfwp.com/forum/index.php?topic=24.0