END OF LINE.
For those of you whose first contact with science fiction was the final round of Super Challenge 8, that quote probably sounds more sinister than it is. But it’s true- we’ve put the final punctuation on the final line of this Super Challenge, and we’re ready to tell you who won. Winners, you’ll get an email confirming your details so that we can send your prizes to you.
We hope you’ve had as much fun writing as we had coming up with the prompts. It’s always a challenge to come up with ideas flexible enough to give you the room to express yourself creatively but tight enough to challenge and inspire you. The two-genre prompt is one of my favorites, and picking the genres always makes me wish I could quit YeahWrite for just a minute to write to that prompt. I hope you had as much fun with it as I did. Let us know how we’re doing!
Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team’s untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you hate is probably my fault. No, seriously, they make sure your work is anonymized, tally the scores, make sure nobody’s story gets overlooked, and all the fiddly little things that you don’t notice are going right until they go suddenly, horribly wrong. Thanks, y’all.
Enough about you, let’s talk about me
Just kidding. You’re here to find out who the winners are. So with no further ado, here we go:
First Place
$200
Myna Chang
His Better Nature
Second Place
$125
Laura Duerr
Trajectories
Third Place
$75
Cayce Osborne
Taking the Edge Off
Honorable Mention:
MM Schreier – The Blurred Memory
Trish Tuthill – The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Runners-up:
(in alphabetical order)
Colette Bennett
Josh Flores
Jessica Gilmartin
Christina Grant
Stephen Matlock
Congratulations again to everyone who entered. Hopefully you’re finding your feedback useful and relevant! Our judges report that they loved the inventiveness of the stories, but they’re a little worried about how many memory (or data) erasure stories there were. Please check and confirm that you haven’t been mindwiped or cloned when you weren’t looking – I know at least one detective who specializes in that!
(If you just can’t get enough, registration for Super Challenge #9 opens June 1, 2018, so keep an eye out!)
Wait, wait, there’s more!
Writers, if you don’t have your feedback, please send us an email at superchallenge@yeahwrite.me, ’cause that email should have reached you on Wednesday.
Now that this round of the competition is over, you’re free to post your work anywhere on the Internet you like, or take our judges’ suggestions and rework your submission to send on to other venues. We’ve also made this special grid for you to link your work to if you like:
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Rowan submitted exactly one piece of microfiction to YeahWrite before being consumed by the editorial darkside. She spent some time working hard as our Submissions Editor before becoming YeahWrite’s Managing Editor in 2016. She was a BlogHer Voice of the Year in 2017 for her work on intersectional feminism, but she suggests you find and follow WOC instead. In real life she’s been at various times an attorney, aerialist, professional knitter, artist, graphic designer (yes, they’re different things), editor, secretary, tailor, and martial artist. It bothers her vaguely that the preceding list isn’t alphabetized, but the Oxford comma makes up for it. She lives in Portlandia with a menagerie which includes at least one other human. She tells lies at textwall and uncomfortable truths at CrossKnit.
