We are no longer accepting submissions for JournalStone’s 2011 Short Story Contest!
The profits generated from our 2011 anthology are being donated for the purchase of medical equipment for Rocky Wood, president of HWA, who is diagnosed with ALS. Please support ALS research to the extent you possibly can. Tentative release date, December 20, 2011.
2011 Winners
John La Rue lives in Washington, D.C. with his fiancée, and writes frantically for a living. He has been called “one of the great science fiction writers of his generation,” mostly by his mother. This is his first published work, though he promises more will be available sometime between now and the inevitable robot uprising.
As a child, Brad Carpenter terrorized his little sister by telling scary stories right before bedtime. He judged his story-telling ability by the frequency of her nightmares. Twenty years later nothing has changed. Brad is currently hard at work writing his first novel. He lives in Los Angles with his wife and baby girl and, of course, Penny the Wonderdog.
Novelist, journalist, satirist, Bruce Golden’s short stories have been published more than 100 times across nine countries. Asimov’s Science Fiction described his second novel; “If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden’s Better Than Chocolate.” You can find more of Golden’s stories in his recently published collection Dancing with the Velvet Lizard on his website.
Jeffrey Wilson has worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot, a diving instructor, a Naval Officer, and a Vascular and Trauma Surgeon. He also served two tours in Iraq as a combat surgeon with both the Marines and with a Joint Special Operations Task Force. He has published short stories, won fiction competitions, and his first novel, THE TRAITEUR’S RING, was released this year by JournalStone. His novel THE DONORS will be available the summer of 2012. Jeff and his wife, Wendy, are Virginia natives who, with children Emma, Jack, and Connor, now call Southwest Florida home.
Jasmine June Cabanaw is an author and professional dancer. She combines her passions by writing dance history articles for www.gildedserpent.com. She is also a features writer at Juxtapoz magazine. Jasmine has worked as a freelance writer for ten years, with publications in various newspapers, websites, and magazines. Jasmine was included in JournalSstone’s 2010 Warped Words for Twisted Minds and is thrilled to be a part of 90 Minutes to Live.
A native of Alabama, Brett J. Talley received a philosophy and history degree from Alabama U. before moving to witch-haunted Massachusetts and Harvard Law School. Brett is the author of That Which Should Not Be, winner of JournalStone’s 2011 novel contest. He has been published several times in the ‘Absent Willow Review’, and his short story, ‘The Substance of Shadow’, won their 2011 short story contest. Brett likes puppies and dragons and Alabama football. He rarely eats cucumbers.
Timothy Miller has worked at a farm, a meatpacking plant, a pickle factory, a casino, and a rowdy nightclub as a bouncer. Currently employed as a repair technician for a large telephone company, he writes in his spare time and has several short stories published in print and on the web. His biggest fans, his family, spend many frigid Wisconsin nights in their home, listening to his stories and encouraging him despite the nightmares.
Bill Patterson West Point, ’82 alumni, has been interested in writing science fiction ever since college. The author of one commercially successful CAD software book, Bill was a magazine columnist in the same area. Bill brings his love of language to science fiction in his work. He and his wife of 28 years, Barbara, live with their two sons in Central New Jersey.
Peter Orr has been creating stories in his head for as long as he can remember, and has recently found out just how satisfying it is to actually write them down. He lives with his fiancée, who acts as his de facto editor and audience-in-chief. In his day job he is a barrister, and through that job and the situations he encounters he has come to realize how strange life can be."
Nu Yang resides in Southern California, although she is a Midwest girl at heart. She is the editorial assistant with The Log newspaper and Editor and Publisher magazine as well as the assistant editor with New Myths, an online speculative magazine. She has been published with Three Crow Press and Hic Dragones. Nu is a 2006 graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop and a June 2009 graduate of the Writing Popular Fiction Master’s program at Seton Hill University. When she’s not writing, she sings karaoke, watches too much television, and daydreams about demon hunters, supernatural monsters, and the occasional love story.
JG Faherty grew up in the haunted Hudson Valley region of New York. Living in an area filled with centuries-old cemeteries, ghosts, and tales of monsters in the woods has provided a rich background for his writing. A life-long fan of horror, JG enjoys reading, movies, golf, volunteering as an exotic animal caretaker, and playing the guitar. JG’s first novel, CARNIVAL OF FEAR, was released in 2010. GHOSTS OF CORONADO BAY, a YA supernatural thriller, was published in June 2011. THE CEMETERY CLUB, his third novel, will be released in early 2012. His other credits include more than two dozen short stories in major genre magazines and anthologies.
David Perlmutter is a freelance writer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he has lived his whole life. His passions are American television animation (the subject of his MA thesis and a projected historical monograph), literature (especially science fiction and fantasy) and music (rhythm& blues, soul, funk and jazz.) This explains why much of his writing is as nonconventional and defiant as it is. He is challenged with Asperger’s Syndrome, but considers it an asset more than a disability.
Jennifer Phillips grew up bouncing around the globe as the offspring of US embassy personnel. She is an online media analyst and has worked in politics and public relations. Her passion is fiction, both reading and writing. She always has more ideas to write about than she has time to write. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two pets, an 18-year-old cat named Elle and a Shepherd mix puppy named Coco.
Get your short story published in an anthology.
JournalStone is holding its second short story contest and is now accepting submissions for its upcoming 2011 horror anthology publication. The top 10-15 submissions will be chosen for publication. Submissions should be proof-read, edited and in the final format.
All cover art, layout, publication costs, formatting etc., will be JournalStone’s responsibility. As a writer, your only responsibility is submitting your short story.
The top three overall winning entries will be paid 5 cents per word for their submission. In addition to the top three overall winners, 2 submissions from each category will be chosen for publication. They will be published, but there is no prize money beyond the top three overall winners, so make sure your entry is one of the winning titles.
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fantasy and YA are the five categories. The top two submissions will be chosen from each category. If you have any questions on content please send an e-mail to joel@journalstone.com. Four entries are required to validate a genre. If a specific genre fails to qualify, stories from other genres will be considered.
Word Count: Approximately 6,000 to 12,000 words. If your story deviates from these guidelines, please contact JournalStone by emailing joel@journalstone.com.
Submission Deadline: All submissions must be received no later than 11 p.m. Pacific time Sept. 16, 2011. JournalStone highly recommends you submit your work early.
Submission Heading: You must include JS 2011 Short Story in the subject line of your submission to ensure receipt. Otherwise it could get shuffled aside and not read as part of the contest.
Theme: All submitted stories must include some reference to or an overall theme surrounding both of these two ideas/topics: (90 minutes to live, a lock of hair).
Judging categories are: Originality, Style, Characters, Dialogue, Editing and Judges’ impression.
To submit your work, please send in a Microsoft Word document in Times New Roman 12-point font to joel@journalstone.com with JS 2011 Short Story in the subject line.
By entering this contest and submitting your short story, you authorize JournalStone to publish your work, hereinafter referred to as “The Work" and you are agreeing to the legal terms and conditions (Rights Granted). Please see below for legal details. If you do not agree with the rules and guidelines you should not submit your work.
The tentative publication date is November/December, 2011!
Each applicant with a published submission will receive one free copy of the book in its final form. If you want to purchase additional books you can for 40% off of list, but you DO NOT HAVE TO. This is just an offer for your benefit.
If you have been curious to find out what JournalStone Publications is all about but didn’t know how to go about it, now is your opportunity.
We are very excited to begin our annual anthology and look forward to 2011 being the launching pad for an exciting new book. You have the unique opportunity to be included in our second edition. Don’t miss out, get your submissions in now!
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