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Writing Contest — Your Chance to Weigh In!

Submitted by Emma Anne Tate on Mon, 2024/02/19 - 9:48am

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  • Emma Anne Tate

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  • Authors / Stories / Books / Writing

Contests: 

  • 2024-01 January - New Year's Resolution Story Contest

The writing contest is now closed for entries. We’re amazed to have had 62 authors submit 120 stories, with a total of over 490 thousand words. Even more impressive is that eight of the authors posted their first story to BC. Several more posted their first stories in years.

We will announce the awards on or around the 26th of this month, at which point you’ll find out which stories had the highest combined scores from Jill and me. But of course, while we have been diligent in applying our own criteria, this will still represent just two people’s views. There were so many fantastic stories, and other judges would almost certainly make different selections. Therefore . . . .

Now is your opportunity to express your opinion and possibly win $50. In a comment to this blog, please list your top three stories – and why you think they should win contest awards. It won’t affect Jill’s score or mine, but it’s a chance for you to show your appreciation for the stories you liked the best.

Each person who posts a qualified comment to this blog will be entered into a drawing to win $50. What’s “qualified,” you ask? Here are the requirements:

• No negative comments are allowed.

• Each person may post their choices once.

• If you list more than three stories, you will be disqualified for the $50 drawing.

• Entries must be submitted by February 22, 2024.

For your reference, the list that follows includes links to all the contest stories, as well as links to each author’s page so you can easily find more stories by your favorites!

Judge now . . . or forever hold your peace!

~o~O~o~


Qualified Contest Stories


Alan

New Years’ Revolutions


Avia Conner

Convergence


Aylesea Malcolm

Resolution Revelations

The Promise


Becky Reus

Be True to Myself


Bru

0300Z Defense HQ New Year Resolution

Contest Resolution


cemma2035 (Emma)

A New Year’s Transformation


Columbine

Charlie

Zuleika


Corazon Tenderheart

No More Girls


CTen

New Year Resolutions, Broken and Kept


Cyclist (Steph C)

False Alarm

Fine Tuning

First Flight

Gooseberry

Icebreaker

Out With the Old

Prodigal Son

Reading the Room

Vanishing Point

Working Break


Daring Diane

Image Resolution


Dee Sylvan

Fifty and Out


dkfenger

Trust Machines - New Year's Revolution


Dorothy Colleen

Night Shift

Resolution Evaluation


Drea DiMaggio (Andrea Lena)

It's Okay


Erin G

Ghost Town


Erin Halfelven (Joyce Melton)

Last Wish


Erisian

Blue Silk


Estarriol

It All Started With my Family


Gillian1968

Hereby Highly


Gillian Chambers

Highs and Lows

Turnaround


girlinthelight

ALIVE Queer Cafe

A Real Man

Allison’s Androphobia

I Will Confess!

Lovey Dovey Assassins


Greybeard

The Three P’s

The Worst Day


Holly Snow

A Life for My Child


Intrigue75 (Polly J)

Nathan, Maybe. Who Knows?


Jamie Lee

Crossroads


Jennifer Sue

EnTWINed


Jenny North

Beauty and the Beast


Jenny Walker

Love Never Dies


Jessica C

Abbie’s Big Sister


Jo Dora Webster

Resolution Revolution

Sofia & Lacey’s for a New Universe


Kimberly Read

Annie’s Story


Kristine V. Read

A New Year’s Reconciliation

Finding Joy

How I Decided It Was Time to Come Out to the World


KymmieLorain

An Imp Has Her Fun


LadyDragon623

Living Your Life


Lauren Bliss

Go Big or Go Homeless


Maeryn Lamonte

Bookends

My Promise to You

Second Star to the Right

That Damned Rodent

The Old Man

Through the Looking Glass Darkly

Yes Ma’am

Your Promise to Me


Magicshoppe

Marriage Counseling

Who Am I?


Malady

Labrys’s Egg: An Electrical Fairy Tale Under Ground


Marianne G (Marianne Gregory)

View From a Bridge


Marissa Lynn

At the Midnight Hour

Catching Up

Late Christmas

Like It’s Your Last

One Last Hail Mary

Snowed In

Still Time

The Long Route Home

To the Bridge

Treehouse

Trust Your Gut?


Maryanne Peters

High Resolution


Melanie Brown

Displaced for New Years

Do Constructs Dream of Electric Sheep?

Girl Park New Years

Once Upon a New Year


Mona Lisa

Happenstance


Ms Woolly

Marking Your Card


Mysterious Stranger (Jennifer Sweet)

Due for a Change: A New Year’s Resolution Short Story


Noname1

That Urge to Purge

How a Resolution Saved a Life


Patricia Marie Allen

Great Aunt Frances


Peregrine

Countdown to Confidence


RachelMnM (Rachel M. Moore)

Can You Believe We Did That?

Intentions Path

Means to an End

New Years Trans

Someone I Can Believe In

With Every Heartbeat


Rasufelle (Melanie Ezell)

A Change of Plans

A Favor for a Friend


Ricky

The Simple Life


Rose (Rosemary Howell)

Cookie’s Resolve

What Is Truth?


Sabrina G. Langton

Just Another Midnight at the Chapel


Sam Quick

Perpendicular Time


SaraKel (Sara Keltaine)

Boys’ Night Out

Kissing Cousins


Shiraz (Shiraz Turvey)

The Boat That Frocked


Sunflowerchan (Rebecca)

A New Year’s Promise

Why is the Robotic Weasel on Fire?


SuziAuchentiber

Hogmanay

My Hero

Scrummy New Year


Suzie Dalkin

A Resolution—Of Sorts


Terry Volkirch (Terrynaut)

Cosmic Loophole

The Perfect Makeover


The Court of Consciousness

The Gray Knight


TiffQ (Tiffany B. Quinn)

Finding My Muse

New Year, New Perspective

~o~O~o~


Contest-Inspired, But Not Qualified


Angela Rasch (Jill)

Bro Faks

Is There a “T” in Team?


Avia Conner

Silencing the Storm


Emma Anne Tate

For Us, the Living

Resolving Reese


Julia Miller

Brian’s New Year’s Resolution


Joanne Barbarella

At the Kajabbi Pub


LadyDragon623

A New Year for Mischief


Marissa Lynn

‘Til You Make It


Marianne G (Marianne Gregory)

Family Ties


Noname1

Learning the Hard Way


Rasufelle (Melanie Ezell)

False Start

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