Absolutely no news here but I sure as heck am twitching…
V37: R, R, R, R
V38: R, R, HM, R
V39: HM, HM, HM, HM
V40: HM, X, X, X
V41: X, X, X, X
V42: X, (submitted and fingers crossed)
Author of fantasy, horror, women’s fiction, romance, and family saga, but not professionally published as per the WOTF guidelines.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hermione%20Lee/author/B097P7LZB4
@hermionelee it's a bit early for twitching. The Q1 certificates are just now being mailed out. My best guess is that sometime in June is when we should start twitching,Absolutely no news here but I sure as heck am twitching…
Hang in there!
All the best,
Amy
WOTF results:
Vol 43: Q1 Pending, Q2 in progress
running totals to date:
WOTF: 7 Rs, 4 RWCs, 8 HMs, 2 SHMs
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
Check out my new website: https://www.amyrwethingtonwriterofspeculativeworlds.com/
According to Winston Churchill, "success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm"
Somehow I lost my Guthington profile, but it's me. Amy Wethington = Guthington = Physa
Absolutely no news here but I sure as heck am twitching…
agree with @physa - last year q2 results went out jul 10 and in 2023 they went out Jul 5
Unless things have dramatically changed, you can probably stop twitching for now
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
"...I also miss almost 100% of the shots I do take."
- Gideon Smith
Writers of the Future:
2026 Q1: P Q2: TBD Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2025 Q1: HM Q2: SHM Q3: HM Q4: HM (resub of 2024 HM)
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2026: 7 submitted 1 acceptances
2025: 163 submitted 10 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2026 goals: a. 2025 Novel submitted to agents/publishers b. Draft 0 of a new novel c. Speak at a con on panels d. Write 3 serious shorts NOT for WOTF e. Submit something, somewhere, every month
@physa I know but I can’t help it 😫 I’ve been twitching the moment I submitted. It’s my first time submitting in two years.
V37: R, R, R, R
V38: R, R, HM, R
V39: HM, HM, HM, HM
V40: HM, X, X, X
V41: X, X, X, X
V42: X, (submitted and fingers crossed)
Author of fantasy, horror, women’s fiction, romance, and family saga, but not professionally published as per the WOTF guidelines.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hermione%20Lee/author/B097P7LZB4
@gideonpsmith you mean I’ll twitch for two more months! I’ll always be twitching no matter when the results are published
V37: R, R, R, R
V38: R, R, HM, R
V39: HM, HM, HM, HM
V40: HM, X, X, X
V41: X, X, X, X
V42: X, (submitted and fingers crossed)
Author of fantasy, horror, women’s fiction, romance, and family saga, but not professionally published as per the WOTF guidelines.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hermione%20Lee/author/B097P7LZB4
@hermionelee I'm right there with you in the twitching tent 🤣. I know I shouldn't be since results probably won't come out for a couple more weeks yet, but I can't help it. Best thing to do is take the twitching to the keys, but I seem to be finding it extremely hard to focus this quarter.
V43: Pending,WIP ,___ ,___
V42: SHM, HM, SHM, HM
V41: HM, Finalist, HM, SHM
V40: HM, HM, RWC, HM
V39: R, R, R, HM
V38: R,
Website: https://michellejdiaz.com
Move along, twitchers, nothing to see here yet. Besides, don't you have a QTR3 to be writing?
Small steps add up to miles.
5 R, 5 RWC, 9 HM, 1 SHM
"Amore For Life" in After the Gold Rush Third Flatiron Anthology
"Freedom’s Song” in Troubadour and Space Princesses LTUE Anthology
Write, write, write. Don't twitch. Writers write!
WotF has lit a fire under my writing chair for some years now. Haven't won yet, but I've written two novels and 33 short stories. And still writing!
Write so long as words keep flowing...
http://www.DocHonourBooks.com
WotF: 18 submissions, every quarter since V38
SFx1; HMx8; RWCx6
FWA RPLA: 1st place Gold story (2022); 1st place Gold novel (2023)
Write, write, write. Don't twitch. Writers write!
WotF has lit a fire under my writing chair for some years now. Haven't won yet, but I've written two novels and 33 short stories. And still writing!
110% agree with this sentiment. Use WOTF as a catalyst, not as a distraction from the writing desk 🤓 👍
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
"...I also miss almost 100% of the shots I do take."
- Gideon Smith
Writers of the Future:
2026 Q1: P Q2: TBD Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2025 Q1: HM Q2: SHM Q3: HM Q4: HM (resub of 2024 HM)
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2026: 7 submitted 1 acceptances
2025: 163 submitted 10 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2026 goals: a. 2025 Novel submitted to agents/publishers b. Draft 0 of a new novel c. Speak at a con on panels d. Write 3 serious shorts NOT for WOTF e. Submit something, somewhere, every month
"There are three rules to writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
— W. Somerset Maugham
Drop me a line at https://morganbroadhead.com
SFx1
HMx6
R/RWCx6
I have a note to start twitching first week of July.
Writers of the Future:
2026 V43: Submitted
2025 V42: RWC, HM (HM Resubmit), HM, SHM
2024 V41: RWC (HM Resubmit), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: -, -, -, HM
2020 V37: -, R, -, -
Other Achievements:
2026 46th "On The Premises" short story contest: HM and Published in HTML format
2025 Southeastern Writers Association: 1st Place in Crime Fiction Contest and 3rd Place in The Lighthouse Prompt Award
Todd S. Jones
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
@michellejdiaz oh I’ve got company! Yeah let’s twitch together even though we know we shouldn’t be twitching haha
sorry for the late reply I havent logged into my account for some time
V37: R, R, R, R
V38: R, R, HM, R
V39: HM, HM, HM, HM
V40: HM, X, X, X
V41: X, X, X, X
V42: X, (submitted and fingers crossed)
Author of fantasy, horror, women’s fiction, romance, and family saga, but not professionally published as per the WOTF guidelines.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hermione%20Lee/author/B097P7LZB4
[Looks at calendar]
[Just as I thought...]
[We are at least a month away from setting up the twitching tent]
[MAYBE results will come before the Q3 deadline]
[PROBABLY not]
[hands out chocolate, towels, and hot beverages to those who have set up tents already]
[hang in there!]
[Summer is coming!]
WOTF results:
Vol 43: Q1 Pending, Q2 in progress
running totals to date:
WOTF: 7 Rs, 4 RWCs, 8 HMs, 2 SHMs
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
Check out my new website: https://www.amyrwethingtonwriterofspeculativeworlds.com/
According to Winston Churchill, "success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm"
Somehow I lost my Guthington profile, but it's me. Amy Wethington = Guthington = Physa
[The hobbit reads the last post]
[scratches her head]
[checks her calendar]
[Yep, it's still May. Not twitching time yet.
[pulls out her pen and continues to write her next story.]
Small steps add up to miles.
5 R, 5 RWC, 9 HM, 1 SHM
"Amore For Life" in After the Gold Rush Third Flatiron Anthology
"Freedom’s Song” in Troubadour and Space Princesses LTUE Anthology
[I nod at the hobbit]
["nice day for writing, isn't it?"]
[the hobbit smiles and nods]
[the hobbit returns to her writing]
[I find a comfortable spot to set up]
[pull out my laptop and try to concentrate]
[now, what sort of story do I want to write?]
[I take a bite out of a scone and sip my coffee]
[my fingers are poised over the keyboard]
WOTF results:
Vol 43: Q1 Pending, Q2 in progress
running totals to date:
WOTF: 7 Rs, 4 RWCs, 8 HMs, 2 SHMs
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
Check out my new website: https://www.amyrwethingtonwriterofspeculativeworlds.com/
According to Winston Churchill, "success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm"
Somehow I lost my Guthington profile, but it's me. Amy Wethington = Guthington = Physa
[The hobbit looks up at the blue sky and wonders about the month change.]
[Not yey, she thinks as she climbs back into her hobbit hole.]
Small steps add up to miles.
5 R, 5 RWC, 9 HM, 1 SHM
"Amore For Life" in After the Gold Rush Third Flatiron Anthology
"Freedom’s Song” in Troubadour and Space Princesses LTUE Anthology
[yikes, first week of June]
[really need to get serious about that Q3 story]
[sees the hobbit retreat into her hole]
[thank goodness there's still a lot of time before the twitching overcomes my thoughts]
WOTF results:
Vol 43: Q1 Pending, Q2 in progress
running totals to date:
WOTF: 7 Rs, 4 RWCs, 8 HMs, 2 SHMs
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
Check out my new website: https://www.amyrwethingtonwriterofspeculativeworlds.com/
According to Winston Churchill, "success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm"
Somehow I lost my Guthington profile, but it's me. Amy Wethington = Guthington = Physa
[sees the hobbit disappear and notes the other one patrolling the tent area getting serious - looks forlornly at all the sticky notes he's placed on the writing board....]
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
"...I also miss almost 100% of the shots I do take."
- Gideon Smith
Writers of the Future:
2026 Q1: P Q2: TBD Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2025 Q1: HM Q2: SHM Q3: HM Q4: HM (resub of 2024 HM)
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2026: 7 submitted 1 acceptances
2025: 163 submitted 10 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2026 goals: a. 2025 Novel submitted to agents/publishers b. Draft 0 of a new novel c. Speak at a con on panels d. Write 3 serious shorts NOT for WOTF e. Submit something, somewhere, every month
[offers encouragement to the one placing sticky notes all over a large board]
[you got this @gideonpsmith]
[sends positive writing energy down the hobbit hole where typing can be heard]
[write on @craydimensional. Your turn will come]
[stares at the story in front of me]
[yikes! Pores furiously through several writing books including Moon's]
[got to include all the elements]
[sweat begins to pool up on my brow as I plan out the story]
[and then--the writing]
[looks at my calendar. Yes, plenty of time!]
WOTF results:
Vol 43: Q1 Pending, Q2 in progress
running totals to date:
WOTF: 7 Rs, 4 RWCs, 8 HMs, 2 SHMs
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
Check out my new website: https://www.amyrwethingtonwriterofspeculativeworlds.com/
According to Winston Churchill, "success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm"
Somehow I lost my Guthington profile, but it's me. Amy Wethington = Guthington = Physa
Still a month out for results, according to my previous email announcements.
Writers of the Future:
2026 V43: Submitted
2025 V42: RWC, HM (HM Resubmit), HM, SHM
2024 V41: RWC (HM Resubmit), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: -, -, -, HM
2020 V37: -, R, -, -
Other Achievements:
2026 46th "On The Premises" short story contest: HM and Published in HTML format
2025 Southeastern Writers Association: 1st Place in Crime Fiction Contest and 3rd Place in The Lighthouse Prompt Award
Todd S. Jones
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
Still a month out for results, according to my previous email announcements.
agreed. I'm not so much worrying about q2 results coming out anytime soon, so much as realizing the time for writing q3 is evaporating
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
"...I also miss almost 100% of the shots I do take."
- Gideon Smith
Writers of the Future:
2026 Q1: P Q2: TBD Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2025 Q1: HM Q2: SHM Q3: HM Q4: HM (resub of 2024 HM)
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2026: 7 submitted 1 acceptances
2025: 163 submitted 10 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2026 goals: a. 2025 Novel submitted to agents/publishers b. Draft 0 of a new novel c. Speak at a con on panels d. Write 3 serious shorts NOT for WOTF e. Submit something, somewhere, every month
I'm at 4000 words at about the 3/4 point on my Q3 story. Time is certainly running out. I think this entry will go down to the wire.
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: HM, HM, HM, RWC
V43: Q1 - sub'd, Q2 - ???
All markets submission stats:
270 Submissions
259 Rejections
34 Personal Rejections
1 Acceptances
I too have been curious about my Q2 submission. Remarkably, I haven't really had time to dwell or fidget due to my world-building and development of my Q3 submission. I suppose there's a lesson in there somewhere. Or a distraction. I'd go looking for the takeaway, but unfortunately, I'm an avid procrastinator. So, perhaps, I'll puzzle this out later. 
F:0 / SF:0 / SHM:0 / HM:1 / RWC:2 / R:2 / Error:1
Previous Submissions: Q2V40, Q3V41, Q1V42, Q2V42, Q3V42, Q4V42
Q1V43 Window: Skipped!
Q2V43 Window: Pending...
www.sagaheim.net
@pmg Stay focused. You can get Q3 done.
Writers of the Future:
2026 V43: Submitted
2025 V42: RWC, HM (HM Resubmit), HM, SHM
2024 V41: RWC (HM Resubmit), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: -, -, -, HM
2020 V37: -, R, -, -
Other Achievements:
2026 46th "On The Premises" short story contest: HM and Published in HTML format
2025 Southeastern Writers Association: 1st Place in Crime Fiction Contest and 3rd Place in The Lighthouse Prompt Award
Todd S. Jones
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
@pmg Stay focused. You can get Q3 done.
Thanks @toddjones I didn't get much done yesterday, but I did write my first Drabble 🤣
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: HM, HM, HM, RWC
V43: Q1 - sub'd, Q2 - ???
All markets submission stats:
270 Submissions
259 Rejections
34 Personal Rejections
1 Acceptances
@pmg Stay focused. You can get Q3 done.
Thanks @toddjones
welcome to the drabbler club! Drabbles are awesome 😉
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
"...I also miss almost 100% of the shots I do take."
- Gideon Smith
Writers of the Future:
2026 Q1: P Q2: TBD Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2025 Q1: HM Q2: SHM Q3: HM Q4: HM (resub of 2024 HM)
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2026: 7 submitted 1 acceptances
2025: 163 submitted 10 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2026 goals: a. 2025 Novel submitted to agents/publishers b. Draft 0 of a new novel c. Speak at a con on panels d. Write 3 serious shorts NOT for WOTF e. Submit something, somewhere, every month
@hermionelee I completely understand your anxiousness. I too twitch regularly and I've been on the Illustrator side of the contest since 1998. Last year, somebody with my EXACT NAME won 1st place and at first I thought It was me and I was about to lose it- then the possible although "very highly improbable" news settled in on me that it was ANOTHER Jose Sanchez from Costa Rica (which in all the years that I'd been involved in the contest, I NEVER saw his name even once on any of the quarterly results. It seems tgat he just jumped in with a parachute from nowhere. I even wrote him to congratulate him but he never replied. I guess when people reach notoriety, its really hard for them to be humble (and genuine). Then, to add insult to injury, another artist wins the following quarter ALSO from Costa Rica....hmmm possible but also strange the coincidence. Very unusual indeed.
Anyway, I have won 6 Honorable Mentions and 2 Semifinalist (with one critique from coordinating judge Ron Lindahn).
So, its not like nothing has happened BUT it is very hard to get 1st place. Nonetheless, I am persistent and optimistic.
Regardless, I'm still trying. Maybe one day...
GOOD LUCK for you as well. Hang in there.
Jose Sanchez
from the USA
@pmg Stay focused. You can get Q3 done.
Thanks @toddjones
welcome to the drabbler club! Drabbles are awesome 😉
I turned my first 249 word vignette in this week. Not sure I nailed the last sentence twist for the topic. It was so hard to write something under 300 words with a character, in a setting, with implied desire, sensory descriptions, and tension. WOW.
I hand it to all the writers that create these flash fiction tales.
Writers of the Future:
2026 V43: Submitted
2025 V42: RWC, HM (HM Resubmit), HM, SHM
2024 V41: RWC (HM Resubmit), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: -, -, -, HM
2020 V37: -, R, -, -
Other Achievements:
2026 46th "On The Premises" short story contest: HM and Published in HTML format
2025 Southeastern Writers Association: 1st Place in Crime Fiction Contest and 3rd Place in The Lighthouse Prompt Award
Todd S. Jones
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
@jose77sanchez sounds like a rollercoaster for you. I really hope you win soon!
V37: R, R, R, R
V38: R, R, HM, R
V39: HM, HM, HM, HM
V40: HM, X, X, X
V41: X, X, X, X
V42: X, (submitted and fingers crossed)
Author of fantasy, horror, women’s fiction, romance, and family saga, but not professionally published as per the WOTF guidelines.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hermione%20Lee/author/B097P7LZB4
Anxiously waiting for the results. Anyone else? My nails may not survive this. 🤣
2022 vol 39 Q4: HM
2023 vol 40 Q1: HM
2023 vol 40 Q4: HM
2024 vol 42 Q2: submitted: awaiting results
