Congratulations!
Condolences on the miss. Keep writing to that level and good things are going to happen.
Best of luck in Q3.
Have fun.
F x 3
@michellejdiaz Congrats. That is awesome news. The wait must have been a real nail biter.
Thank you! And yes, it was. 😆
V42: WIP, ___, ___, ___
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
Second call came in today. No win, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around placing so high. Hopefully I'll have enough inspiration to get me into Q4!
Congratulations to all!!
Well done, Michelle!!! It’s been a pleasure watching all of your amazing progress in my writing group! Keep up the great work, keep applying the knowledge, and may your next be your winner!
Congratulations!!!💜👏🎉
Thank you, Moon!!
V42: WIP, ___, ___, ___
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
Congratulations!
Condolences on the miss. Keep writing to that level and good things are going to happen.
Best of luck in Q3.
Have fun.
Thank you! I plan to keep running in this race. Can't win unless you're in. 🙂
V42: WIP, ___, ___, ___
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
That's awesome, Heidi. Semi is quite an accomplishment.This was my first time submitting and I poured my soul into that short story.
I didn’t know how it all worked or how we would be alerted so starting at the beginning of the month I started checking the blog multiple times a day, pretty much when ever I thought about it, which was all day long, hoping my name would be on there somewhere. Anywhere.
I got an email on the 9th saying that I got semi-finalist. But I feel like I need to see it on the blog before I believe it. So here I am, still checking the blog multiple times a day…(I didn’t submit for 3rd quarter - my writing time is a bit limited. But man that wait is crazy. I hope to have something for the quarter after.)
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
Wow, Michelle. Amazing. Congratulations and commiserations. Next time! Very cool.
Second call came in today. No win, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around placing so high. Hopefully I'll have enough inspiration to get me into Q4!
Congratulations to all!!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
The judging results are in! And here are the 2nd Quarter 2024 Writers of the Future Contest winners for Volume 41. Congratulations to you all!
https://writersofthefuture.com/writers-of-the-future-2nd-quarter-winners-announced-for-volume-41/
Second call came in today. No win, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around placing so high. Hopefully I'll have enough inspiration to get me into Q4!
Congratulations to all!!
Awesome news, Michelle. I saw your name on the blog and I'm really chuffed for you. Bitter sweet that you didn't get top 3 but I know (having read your writing) that it's surely just a matter of time before you get that ticket to Hollywood.
3rd Place Q3 Vol 41
Submission record: R x 2 / HM x 7 / SHM x 2 / W x 1
Stories published in Daily Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, 365tomorrows, and Gwyllion Magazine.
Find out more on my website: https://joelcscoberg.com/
@patricia-a Thanks for congrats, and the tip. 
F x1
SHM x4
HM x10
RWC x1
R Dozens
Second call came in today. No win, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around placing so high. Hopefully I'll have enough inspiration to get me into Q4!
Congratulations to all!!
Adding to the chorus @michellejdiaz, congrats!!
F x1
SHM x4
HM x10
RWC x1
R Dozens
@michellejdiaz Wow that’s amazing! Congratulations!!! 😃👏✨ Really happy for you!
Good luck with Q3! 🌟✨
Vol 42: Q1 - P
Vol 41: Q1 - HM, Q2 - SHM, Q3 - RWC, Q4 - HM
Vol 40: Q4 - DQ
@patricia-a Congrats on the SHM!
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
@heidi Congrats on getting SF for that story
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
So, I was curious… So I wrote some code (I’m a software developer) to analyze the last 5 years of results for the Writers of the Future contest. Specifically I was looking at, before the results of this quarter, what results did they have in the past?
Sharing in case anyone else is curious too. The data being looked at goes back as far as 2019 Q1. If they have a “---“ they haven’t submitted anything else in the last 5 years. Here is just the winners, finalists, and semi-finalists because the whole thing would be too long. If anyone is interested in the whole list or a different quarter let me know.
=== winners ===
Randyn Bartholomew from New York
> ---
Lauren McGuire from Georgia
> 2 honorable-mentions - (2022 Q1, 2023 Q4)
Seth Atwater from Missouri
> ---
=== finalists ===
Bryan Brady from Pennsylvania
> 1 honorable-mentions - (2023 Q3)
Michelle Diaz from Oregon
> 5 honorable-mentions - (2022 Q4, 2023 Q1, 2023 Q2, 2023 Q4, 2024 Q1)
Colin Hacker from Colorado
> 2 honorable-mentions - (2020 Q4, 2022 Q3)
> 2 silver-honorable-mentions - (2022 Q1, 2022 Q4)
Jennifer Lesh Fleck from Washington
> 2 honorable-mentions - (2019 Q4, 2024 Q1)
> 3 silver-honorable-mentions - (2020 Q2, 2021 Q1, 2021 Q2)
Beth Lipsey McCabe from Washington
> ---
=== semi-finalists ===
Kat Averyheart from Florida
> ---
Jennifer Campbell-Hicks from Colorado
> ---
Mira Dover from Virginia
> 3 honorable-mentions - (2019 Q2, 2019 Q4, 2022 Q3)
> 2 silver-honorable-mentions - (2021 Q1, 2023 Q1)
Myles Fisher from North Carolina
> 1 silver-honorable-mentions - (2023 Q4)
Laurel Hanson from Maine
> ---
Spencer Nitkey from New Jersey
> ---
Leo Oliveira from Canada
> ---
Spencer Orey from Denmark
> 1 finalists - (2022 Q4)
> 3 honorable-mentions - (2023 Q1, 2023 Q4, 2024 Q1)
> 1 silver-honorable-mentions - (2023 Q3)
M.R. Robinson from Virginia
> ---
Heidi Sommer from Utah
> ---
2024: Q2 - SF, Q4 - SHM
@heidi Very cool. Interesting to see that the winners and finalists have HMs mostly with a view having SHMs. That is promising for writers, like me, stuck in the HM zone.
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
2025 V42: Submitted, WIP, ?, ?
2024 V41: RWC (Resubmitted "HM"), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: ---HM (R Resubmit)
2020 V37: -R--
@heidi fascinating data! It’s too bad there’s no consistent data on R/RCWs too; that could be even more encouraging. Thanks for sharing this!
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.“ -C. S. Lewis
//
V40: RWC, HM
V41: HM, HM
//
K. R. Queen - Author Site
All my prior HMs are here.
"The Way of the Storyteller" (periodically updated research/reflections on the storytelling craft)
Congratulations to all who won, placed, or were mentioned in q2 and for all who were brave and submitted but got r. I think putting the work out there is the first and hardest step.
2024 - V41 - Q3 - R - (no joy)
2024 - V41 - Q4 -submitted a longer story. Waiting longer with baited breath.- ever more hopeful
www.rmichaelb.ca
@spencer_s Thank you! 😃
Vol 42: Q1 - P
Vol 41: Q1 - HM, Q2 - SHM, Q3 - RWC, Q4 - HM
Vol 40: Q4 - DQ
Second call came in today. No win, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around placing so high. Hopefully I'll have enough inspiration to get me into Q4!
Congratulations to all!!
Awesome news, Michelle. I saw your name on the blog and I'm really chuffed for you. Bitter sweet that you didn't get top 3 but I know (having read your writing) that it's surely just a matter of time before you get that ticket to Hollywood.
Thanks, Joel! Your comments on my past stories have really helped my craft and I'm very thankful to you!
V42: WIP, ___, ___, ___
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
@michellejdiaz Wow that’s amazing! Congratulations!!! 😃👏✨ Really happy for you!
Good luck with Q3! 🌟✨
Thank you, Patricia! Same goes to you!
V42: WIP, ___, ___, ___
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
@heidi That's really interesting... I thought of doing something like that myself, but since I don't know code, it would have been a bit harder, LOL. Thanks for sharing!
V42: WIP, ___, ___, ___
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
Just received my HM certificate in the post!
Now I need to go buy a frame for it 
Writers of the Future stats:
V32: Q3 - R
V33: Q3 - R
V39: Q4 - RWC
V40: RWC, R, HM, HM
V41: R, HM, RWC, HM
V42: Q1 - sub'd, Q2 - WIP
All markets submission stats:
222 Submissions
210 Rejections
28 Personal Rejections
0 Acceptances
@pmg Congrats
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
2025 V42: Submitted, WIP, ?, ?
2024 V41: RWC (Resubmitted "HM"), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: ---HM (R Resubmit)
2020 V37: -R--
Thanks ! 
