The Sixth storySouth Million Writers Award

Posted by Colin Harvey May 27, 2009

I'll freely admit to being a little biased here. Kris Dikeman is a good friend of mine, so I was delighted to hear that she'd been nominated for The sixth annual Million Writers Award, which this year features the following prizes:

• Overall winner: $500
• Runner-up: $200
• Honorable mention (third place): $100

The top ten stories of the year are:

• "The Whale Hunter" by Steinur Bell (Agni)
• "Intertropical Convergence Zone" by Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine)
• "No Bullets in the House" by Geronimo Madrid (Drunken Boat)
• "Fuckbuddy" by Roderic Crooks (Eyeshot)
• "The Fisherman's Wife" by Jenny Williams (LitNImage)
• "Every Earth is Fit for Burial" by Cyn Kitchen (Menda City Review)
• "Interview With A Moron" by Elizabeth Stuckey-French (Narrative Magazine)
• "The Tale of Junko and Sayuri" by Peter S. Beagle (OSC's Intergalactic Medicine Show)
• "Grief Mongers" by Sefi Atta (Per Contra Fiction)
• "Nine Sundays in a Row" by Kris Dikeman (Strange Horizons)

Kris is currently languishing in sixth, just behind Peter S. Beagle, who doesn't need the money anyway(!) so go ahead and read her story, and if you like it, vote for it.

Oh, you can vote for it here.

OK, that's my bit of drum-beating on behalf of Kris done for the day. She now owes me sixteen beers, or is that seventeen...?