Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 A Midsummer Tale Writing Contest!
1st: “The Land Between Two Rivers,” fiction by Bint Arab
2nd: “Still Water,” creative non-fiction by Nancy Bouchard
3rd: “Stepping into Summer,” creative non-fiction by Tony Press
Honorable Mention: “Empedocles on Love and Strife,” fiction by Chris Kitowski
First place receives a $35 Amazon gift card and second place receives a $10 Amazon gift card.* The top three stories will appear in the September issue of Toasted Cheese.
A big thank you to all who entered! We hope you’ll join us again next year.
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Our next contest is the fall Three Cheers and a Tiger 48-hour contest in September. It has a science fiction/fantasy theme and is judged by Boots & Broker.
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*We received 35 entries, not quite enough to reach our threshold for raising the prize money. Our other contests are also switching to an escalating prize format, so please pass the contest info on to your writing friends!