Summer Romance Contest 2010
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TopShelf's Summer Romance 2010 Story Contest Contest Closed! Voting to Begin Monday July 19, 2010 until Sunday July 25, 2010. Announcement of voting procedures on Monday. Contest Submissions to Date (click here) |
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This year's Summer Romance Contest is going to be a little different from our past 2 years. I would like to narrow the theme down some. In this year's contest the theme will focus on the development of love between two people, one of which is either intersexed, transgender, transvestite, lesbian, gay or bi. The environment of the story should revolve around either school, work, or some sort of trip. The era should be between 1900 - 2025 (^^ Keeping things within the 20th - 21st Century). This Contest will last a total of eleven weeks for submissions (Absolutely no rescheduling of the deadline for any reason - winners need to be announced and Sephrena will be mailing the awards out to the designated winners). The voting will occur over a 7 day period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per user. The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $80, 2nd place - $60, 3rd place - $50. The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address to mail them their money. All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.
Rules for the contest are as follows:
Must be fiction.
Can be a short story, a poem, a novel, a piece of any length. To enable fairness to everyone, No chapters of ongoing serials will be allowed. This is to level the playing field for all author entries and for the readers to decide.
Any open story universes may used.
The work that is being submitted must be a NEW writing and not already posted anywhere else prior to the starting date of this contest. This contest is for new works only, and as such, please do not use anything recycled from other sites.
Contest Duration is 11 weeks - no extensions. Starting Date May 2, 2010 to the Closing Date 12 midnight Pacific time July 16, 2010.
Marking Your Story - There will be a selection in the +fiction page under CONTESTS entitled "Summer Romance Story Contest 2010" to mark your story with. PLEASE CHECK TO ENSURE THAT YOU MARK YOUR ENTRY.
Number of Submissions - Any author may submit any number of new entries that are validly marked in the contest box, but only one entry per author will be counted in the final totals, the one that gets the top number of votes from that author will be the one counted for purposes of determining winners.
Voting Dates - Voting period will be for 1 week only between July 19, 2010 until July 25, 2010. Voting is limited to REGISTERED site users only. Voting Procedures to be announced on Monday July 19
Tie-breaking - In the event of a Tie for any position, Erin, Sephrena and the involved winners will discuss a suitable resolution between the placed winners and/or issue additional prize monies. The results of the contest will be posted within 24 hours of the declared winners and all prize resolutions will be announced along with the winners.
Prizes - 1st place - $80, 2nd place - $60, 3rd place - $50. All money prizes are awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners. (For our non North American registered users - if you have a Paypal account and would like direct deposit of the award money through that, I can arrange to do that as well.)
Happy Creative Thinking and get those keyboards clacking!!
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 Sephrena Lynn Miller BigCloset TopShelf TGLibrary.com |
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TopShelf's Summer Romance 2010 Contest Results
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And Now for the Winners... DRUMROLL... |
our very own...
Lillith Langtree!
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Passion and Purpose
by: Lilith Langtree
Sasha Petrovitch has not been like other boys for the last three years.
So what happens when he meets the new girl during lunch on their first day back?
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None other than...
Kelly Blake!
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A Second Chance
by Kelly Blake
Edited and Proofed
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...I knew what had happened. As one of the cops approached me and started to speak to me, I heard not a single word. I merely saw his mouth move as tears began to fall from my eyes.
I remember little else from that evening other than finding myself in my old room, now occupied by Corie, and Kate alongside me in the bed. Owen and Meg were gone. We would never be able to speak, or touch, or laugh, or cry with them again. My life, and Kate’s, as we knew it, had come to a most bitter end.
I am proud to present...
Andrea Lena DiMaggio!
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The Piano Lesson
of Linda Piontak by Andrea Lena DiMaggio
Linda discovers that even a tutor can
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PM me with your mailing addresses for your Cash Prizes!
The Sweet Romance of Linda Piontak by Andrea Lena Dimaggio
Freezeframe by Kaho
Fine Print by Grover
A Bonnie Lass by Angela Rasch
Lessons Learned by Catherine Linda Michel
Military Wife by Stanman
Martha by Topsy
What are the Odds? by Connie Alexander
On the Way to the Dance by Heather Rose Brown
Hiding Alice by Saless
Heat Wave by Commentator
Accidental Girl by Stanman
The Missing Lover by Katherine Day
That Summer I Found Her by Jengirl
Perfect Nails by Kelly Blake
Never Trust The Pretty Ones by Jennifer Brock
My Summer Time Romance by Stanman
I would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter for participating. In every sense of the word, everyone who entered this contest is a winner!!! I wish I had the funding to pay everyone who took the time and entered, but... I simply don't have those kind of resources. I would also like to thank the people who took the time to vote and who read the stories. That is what BigCloset TopShelf is all about! Writing, Reading, Commenting, and Participating.
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