TopShelf's
Fall 2014
Fall 2014
Back to School
Contest Results
Contest Results
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All of our contestant's entries were excellent this year and ALL of them deserve to win! However, because of the limit of 7 prizes total, not everyone could place. We have a total of 7 prizes: 1 x $100, 2 x $, 4 x $25.
Our 7th place winner, also for a prize of $25, is The Second Bell by Melange Our 6th place winner, for a prize of $25, is Kerrie's Run by Kelly Blake Our 5th place winner, for a prize of $25, is Life Sucks! by Sue Brown Our 4th Place winner, for a prize of $25, is Playing Her Way - 1-6 by D.L. The 3rd place prize of $50 goes to author Maeryn Lamonte with her entry of Back to the Grind Our 2nd place prize of $50 goes to author Bailey Summers with her entry of Hopscotch…A Jump in Life 1-30 Our top prize of First place, with a prize of $100, goes to author Amethyst with her entry of Pirouette TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest
Honorable Mentions
Girl Power by bamajoe
Going to School with My Best Friend Megan by jessicac119 School Days... by Andrea Lena In the spotlight by dorothycolleen April Schooled 1-3 by Polly Adler Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Sue Life is a Hoot! by Shauna The life and times of Mackenzie Somerset 1-2 by Raff01 Three Wishes by Anansi I would also like for all of you to congratulate our winners and our Honorable Mentions here for their hard work and perseverance in writing their entries for our contest. They all deserve a thanks and a pm from everyone! I do need Melange, Kelly Blake, Sue Brown, D.L., Maeryn Lamonte, Bailey Summers, and Amethyst to please PM me for how you want your prizes sent to you: snail mail with US Postal Money Order, or Paypal. |
Image Credits: Back to School, Anime Girl, ~Sephrena.
Comments
Well done to you all!
Not just the winners, but everyone who contributed to this contest. Thank you.
Maggie
Go team Closet!
Well, THIS was unexpected! I feel warm and fuzzy, like my heart just got a truly snuggly cardigan all of its own (except for, you know, the horrible medical implications of that).
A big congratulations to Amethyst, Bailey and Maeryn, and a *thank you* to everyone who contributed with either stories or making the contest possible.
This was fun :)
Congrats
To all for a job well done. I would also like to send a special thanks to Amethyst and Bailey Summers for such excellent stories. All of you please keep up the fantastic work.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain.
Leigh Veritas
Terrific!
Great fun as well!
Love, Andrea Lena
Wow
Thanks to everyone who voted for Pirouette. I really wasn't expecting this with so many good stories this time around and I didn't even realize the winners had been announced until i got two pms congratulating me. This kind of blindsided me, but in the best possible way. Congratulations to Bailey and all the other winners as well. I took time to read all the other entries and all of you deserve recognition for rising to the challenge and posting some great stories. I had so much trouble trying to decide who to vote for that I missed the deadline.
Again thanks to you all for your votes and support and congrats to all the other winners. I think this was one of the best contests I've seen since I started posting here as far as entries were concerned. Thanks as well of course to Sephrena and the Big Closet team who made this all possible.
*big hugs to all of you*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
Congrats to all the winners.
And a Big Thank You to all of the people to read and enjoyed the stories and voted. Y'all really help to make the site truly special.
*Great Big Hugs*
Bailey Summers
Congrats to ALL of the Winners and Writers!
This was an awesome playing field and I am honored to be among those playing on it!
I do think the best story won--it was amazing!
Hugs!
Shauna
Aww thanks Shauna
I'm blushing here. Your story wasn't the type I usually read, but it was a fun read and it kept my attention til the end. A real hoot you might say;)
Oh and before I forget again, special thanks of course to Talia as well for giving me the idea for Pirouette.
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
Giggles...
I don't even know where my story came from (other than a nice bottle of Cote Du Rhone...) It was never even intended to be a part of the contest...just a complete whim... :D
I am glad it gave you a laugh, though. And my thanks to Talia, as well, if she was the inspiration for your story!
HUGS!
Big Boo-boo
For some reason My computer date is set to the 13th today and today is the 12th. Every contest somehow, somewhere, I make a mistake on something. I fixed my pc date already (Thanks to the person that caught that error and pm'd me about it!) but I have already done the awards page :/ The awards were supposed to be done on the 13th. I cannot reverse what I have done, but in retrospect, in the last few contests I have done, I did extend the deadline some extra days to include authors that were late. So I do apologize for this mistake. All I can promise everyone is that I will be more attentive in the future and confirm dates before doing things.
Sephrena
Well...
I would say that we will just have to dock that HUGE salary you make administering the site! Let's see, I think reducing it from the current 'ZERO' to...hmmm...'NEGATIVE ZERO' should be fair...
Does everyone agree? Other thoughts on an appropriate punishment? ;)
Seriously! It is NO big deal, Sephrena! We cherish you for what you do!
HUGS!
Shauna
I was wondering about that
We all make mistakes. I kind of wonder how much difference that extra day of voting might have made, but it's not like you personally even get much other than satisfaction from a good batch of contest stories. You put up the money, organize the contest pages, do the awards page and everything. Most of us are glad to have these contests at all, no matter what the results.
I don't think people are really going to do anything drastic because of one day difference and beating yourself up over an honest mistake caused by computer error isn't going to change things. If you think that this one extra day really could make a huge difference in things, pm me to let me know and we'll see what we can figure out to make things better.
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
I have to admit...
I was a bit surprised to see a results page come up when I was just settling in to read the last few entries and cast my vote. No worries, though, I don't think anything would've changed. ;-)
Congratulations to all the winners! I'm honored to have even had my writing considered alongside theirs!
All great stories!
Every single one!
Grtaz to da winnerz!
And Kudos to all the writers!
>i< ..:::
Uhhh...
I am amazed and gratified that amongst the very talented writers, some found my tale to be...worthy? I must say that I found the choices to be very difficult to make and that I feel I am indeed amongst good company.
Peace To Us All...
Kelly