Word Smitten's Call for Fiction. The award is $1,010.00 and the deadline for this Fiction Contest: July 1.

Award-Winning Short Stories
We are pleased to announce WordSmitten's awards for our annual fiction competitions. Congratulations to these storytellers and our thanks to all writers who participated in this event. As always, these are difficult decisions. Each writer's story has merit, but a story that meets certain criteria always stands apart. The award-winning stories are published and we congratulate both winners.

WordSmitten's Storycove Flash Fiction Prize of $150.00 for best short fiction is awarded to Christina Fifield of Lindenhurst, New York, for her whimsical story Sunday Drives Done Mojo Style.

WordSmitten's TenTen Short Story Prize of $1,010.00 is awarded to Andrew Davis for his story, Same Thing, Only Different.

A few months ago, we announced a story that had been published in an online publication owned and administered by Yale University. We appreciate all our alert readers for reporting it to our fiction panel. It is our policy to award this scholarship to writers for original, unpublished fiction that has not been recognized, published, or awarded any previous prize. We disqualified the Yale student and she returned the scholarship funds. In December, after a complete review of all stories, we awarded those funds to Andrew Davis.

WordSmitten's Fiction Judge for this year's competition is renowned author and educator Janet Burroway. Janet Burroway's engaging and insightful textbook Writing Fiction continues to guide writers to higher levels of literary practice.

Next year's deadline is July 1.

The Rule: Write a short story that requires exactly 1,010 words (excludes the title and footnotes). That's it. That's the rule. Excise those adverbs and cut those adjectives. Make us laugh or make us weep. Above all, pay rigorous attention to the word count. It's why we call this unique short story contest The TenTen. It's a challenge to be precise, be witty, be short.

We want to thank everyone for the notes, letters, and phone calls requesting that we start up the TenTen again after our sabbatical. We heard you. Even better, we think you are right. So, sharpen your pencils and rev up your laptops for the TenTen 2008.

Congratulations to a previous winner of the $1,010.00 Fiction Prize: Maria Dahvana Headley. Her recent novel, The Year of Yes, rocked the house when broadcasting's Katie Couric interviewed her last year.

For current events on wordsmitten.com, you'll have a great time tapping the lantern at the top of WordSmitten's site pages. Visit often.

WordSmitten Media's recent fiction judges include:
Janet Burroway, author of the revered textbook, Writing Fiction, and a renowned educator at Florida State University, now FSU's noted Professor Emerita.
Noy Holland, author of The Spectacle of the Body, educator, and head of the UMass creative writing program, helped us to select Maria Headley's story that evolved into the bestseller and a favorite novel for Katie Couric, MD Headley's The Year of Yes.
Peter Meinke, educator, poet, and author of The Piano Tuner (Winner of the Flannery O' Connor Award in Short Fiction).
Thisbe Nissen, author of The Good People of New York & Osprey Island.
Michael C. White, professor of creative writing and author of The Garden of Martyrs, A Dream of Wolves, and other notable works of fiction.


	Editor Nan A. Talese

	Author Colleen Curran

	CEO Murray Hidary :: iAmplify

	Maria Headley One of WordSmitten's Award Winning Authors

Deadline: July 1

CALL FOR FICTION
WordSmitten, an international digital media company provides interviews, reviews, and news of interest to the publishing and writing communities. We invite all writers of literary fiction (and as much as we like a good romance and thriller to read, no other genre, sorry) to enter this annual competition.

The annual 1010 Fiction Award provides
a grant in the amount of $1010.00 to be awarded annually in late autumn.

READ OUR PREVIOUS WINNING STORIES:
CANNING DAY by Mary McNulty
Fiction Judge: Peter Meinke (THE PIANO TUNER)
AND THIS ONE IS JUST RIGHT by Maria D. Headley
Fiction Judge: Noy Holland (THE SPECTACLE OF THE BODY)

Okay, there are more rules.
Requirements: Fiction previously unpublished, submitted through on-line procedures only, with a specific word count of exactly 1,010 words. No attachments.

All rights revert upon e-publication on our site, www.wordsmitten.com and winner will be notified by mail and/or by e-mail. If we are unable to reach the selected winner we will choose a runner up if we do not have current contact information on file. To register, read the guidelines and include a reading fee of $15.00. No multiple submissions. Literary fiction only.

Guidelines: We only accept submissions of on-line manuscripts until the deadline of July 1, 2008 and anything beyond that date will not be acknowledged or accepted. Participants must be 18 years on or before July 1, 2008.

Author's name should not appear on the manuscript under the title. The top of the e-mail should contain the title only.

Provide name, address, telephone number, and title at the bottom of the e-mail; PLACE this info at least five spaces past the end of the story.

IMPORTANT: In your e-mail's Subject Line,
include the words TenTen Fiction.

Ready to submit your TenTen Short Story to WordSmitten's 2008 competition? First, send your submission to story

wordsmitten.com and include the Subject Header: TenTen Fiction. Then click on the PayPal logo at the bottom of this paragraph.

If you are not familiar with PayPal (a company owned by eBay and listed on the stock exchange) and prefer snail mail, then write to us for permission to mail your application.

To submit your story electronically, follow the PayPal instructions to process your reading fee of $15.00. Include your name, address, email, phone number, and your story title with your PayPal application. Use our registered e-mail address (award

wordsmitten.com) to complete your registration on PayPal.