Writers of the Future 1st Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 41
And the winners are:
First Place – Sandra Skalski from New Jersey
Second Place – Jefferson Snow from Utah
Third Place – Barlow Crassmont from Illinois
Finalists:
Adrian Croft from Canada
J. Christopher Fernandes from Pennsylvania
Jason Russell from Alaska
Gideon P. Smith from Massachusetts
Sean Eric P. Villaverde from California
Semi-Finalists:
Yasmeen Amro from Jordan
S.D. Bullard from Tennessee
Thomas Farringer-Logan from Oregon
Nicholas Kirkikis from Louisiana
Dugan Lentz from North Carolina
J.L. Newsome from Georgia
Annmarie SanSevero from Arkansas
Kenneth Urban from Massachusetts
Nick Wisseman from Michigan
Silver Honorable Mentions:
Robert Bagnall from Great Britain
Cameron Bain from New York
Jen Bair from Georgia
Chris Balliet from Pennsylvania
Amber Baughman from South Carolina
SummerDale Beckstrand from Utah
Oliver Blakemore from Colorado
Evonne Brown from Florida
Gabriel Burch from Oklahoma
M.R. Buttars from Missouri
Daniel M. Cojocaru from Switzerland
Scott Coon from California
Michael Anthony Dioguardi from New York
Victoria L. Dixon from Kansas
Bernard Doucette from New Jersey
O.L. Drake from North Carolina
Sofia Ezdina from Russia
Beck Fife from Missouri
K. Gamar from Egypt
Cara Giles from Utah
Nate Givens from Virginia
Kiki Gonglewski from New Mexico
A. Roger Hammons Jr. from Virginia
Kelly Harmon from Maryland
Cody Hayhurst from California
Hollis Henry from Trinidad and Tobago
Saleha Imran from Pakistan
John F. Keane from Great Britain
Karen L. Kobylarz from Illinois
Raj Kumar from Florida
Ike Lang from New York
Andrea Lattin from Nevada
Adrian Law from New Mexico
Mathew Lebowitz from Massachusetts
Dianne Lee from New York
Eric D. Littlefield from Colorado
Edyta Lors from California
Robert F. Lowell from California
Boo Ludlow from Utah
Mark Manifesto from California
Kain Massin from Australia
Gregory D. Mele from Illinois
Jason P. Newman from California
Riley Odell from Colorado
Jacob Pérez from California
Thomas Poldervaart from Netherlands
Ameera Rashid from India
Timothy Reynolds from Canada
Kerri J. Roe from Alaska
B.E. Saunders from Australia
L. A. Selby from California
Sandra Siegienski from Oregon
Thomas K. Slee from Australia
Elijah Rain Smith from Washington, D.C.
Bill Snyder from California
H.C. Terrell from New Jersey
Shannon Walch from Germany
Ana Wesley from California
A. Wilkins from New Zealand
Jarrod K. Williams from Ohio
Caleb Williams from Texas
Honorable Mentions:
Jason A. Adams from Virginia
Patricia Ahlborn from Sweden
Rowena Aiello from Massachusetts
A.M. Aikman from Florida
Lenore Alecto from Texas
Alexandra Almeida from Australia
Van Alrik from Idaho
B. Kent Anderson from Utah
Stirling Avis from Oklahoma
G.M. BA from Texas
Jennifer M. Baldwin from Michigan
Jada Ball from North Carolina
Keech Ballard from Nevada
Micah Bates from Oregon
Gary Battershell from Arkansas
Melissa Beaty from Tennessee
J.W. Benford from California
Ryan Benson from Georgia
John Biggs from Oklahoma
Dave Blake from Great Britain
James Blakey from Virginia
Daniel Blatt from California
Rob Bleckly from Australia
Gabriel Botero from South Carolina
Tyler Bourassa from Canada
Sierra Branham from Utah
David Bridge from Great Britain
Leith Brooks from Colorado
Tegan Bunn from Arizona
Paul Burdiss from Utah
Shawn Butler from Utah
Aiona Byuwek from Washington
Shane Bzdok from Texas
Gia Camagna from California
Stacey Campbell from Colorado
Jarrid Cantway from Iowa
Caitlin Carpenter from Canada
Theo Carr from Great Britain
Jenny Perry Carr from Texas
Brandon Case from Nevada
C. Dan Castro from Connecticut
Black C. Caviar from Australia
M.T. Chambers from Florida
Patrick Childress from Washington, D.C.
Gio Clairval from Italy
David Close from Arizona
Dee Cohen from Pennsylvania
Sarah Connell from North Carolina
Yelena Crane from Pennsylvania
James D. Crofts III from Utah
Rana Crowder from Washington
Gianni Damaia from Florida
Kate Dane from Minnesota
Rick Danforth from Great Britain
Edward Daschle from Washington
Fabien Delorme from France
Michelle Diaz from Oregon
Teddi DiCanio from Massachusetts
Nathan B. Dodge from Texas
Ella Duke from Maine
Frank Dutkiewicz from Michigan
Tim Emery from Great Britain
Angelique Fawns from Canada
P.D. Fenton from Kansas
Beatriz F. Fernandez from Florida
Devin Fields from New Mexico
Isabel Firster from Kentucky
Ben Fitzgerald from Connecticut
Theresa Flannery from Idaho
Monalisa Foster from Texas
Joseph Friesen from Canada
John A. Frochio from Pennsylvania
Krispen Frost from Michigan
Henry Gasko from Australia
Russell Giles from Utah
Tiina Giocada from Canada
Peter Glazebrook from Great Britain
Ed Godbois from Massachusetts
Antonio S. Gomez from Florida
Ian Gonzales from Washington
Avery Gray from Tennessee
Florence Hallford from Illinois
Mervi Hamalainen from Finland
Hyrum W. Hawks from Utah
Christopher Henckel from New Zealand
Ross C. Higgins from Texas
A. J. Hodson from Great Britain
Rani Jayakumar from California
R.A. Johnson from Pennsylvania
Miranda Johnson from Virginia
Erik M. Johnson from Massachusetts
Eli Jones from Oregon
Michael Kaczmarek from Idaho
Sarah Kamat from Montana
Vivi Kanari from Greece
Dave Kavanaugh from Netherlands
B.T. Keaton from New Zealand
Janessa Keeling from Kentucky
Peter Keenan from Texas
Cody Kemp from Arkansas
Andria Kennedy from Virginia
Dan Kenner from Idaho
Kevin Kepko from Florida
Steve Kopka from Illinois
Michael La Ronn from Iowa
A.R. Lachance from Canada
Jason Lairamore from Oklahoma
Jennifer Lesh Fleck from Washington
Avery Leventhal from California
Sylvie Lian from Singapore
Irene Liang from Texas
Michelle Liggons from California
Ella Lin from North Carolina
Akis Linardos from Indiana
Darren Lipman from Wisconsin
Tom Lovett from Great Britain
D. Scott Maiorca from Nebraska
William Mangieri from Texas
Alex Marchenko from Illinois
Melody Marshall from New Jersey
Bailey Maybray from Massachusetts
Robert J. McCarter from Arizona
Ryan T. McFadden from Canada
Joshua Harley McKnight from California
Sue McLean from Great Britain
Melissa Mendelson from New York
Michael Middleton from Oregon
Devin Miller from North Carolina
Katherine Mixon from Illinois
Don Money from Arkansas
Aaron Moskalik from Michigan
Merry Muhsman from Michigan
Soumya Sundar Mukherjee from India
Lucas T. Novick from Great Britain
Susan Oke from Great Britain
William A. Oliver from New Jersey
Spencer Orey from Denmark
Dan Osborn from Michigan
Michael OShea from New York
Albert O’Toole from Canada
Jerry Parker from California
Geoff Parker from Michigan
Barbara Patten from Minnesota
B.A. Paul from Indiana
A.J. Payler from California
Gunner James Peterson from Massachusetts
Jason Pfister from New York
M.O. Pirson from Belgium
Robert Porteous from Australia
Kathleen Powell from Missouri
Emilia Pulliainen from Finland
K.R. Queen from Washington
Harriet Radford from California
Susmita Ramani from California
Lorel Rea from Kentucky
Juliana Rew from Colorado
K.Z. Richards from Ohio
J.J. Rintala from Finland
William Joseph Roberts from Georgia
Paul Roberts from Washington
J.M. Roberts from Illinois
Gloria M. Rodriguez from Florida
Marci D. Rose from Great Britain
Theodore Rose from Utah
Edward Sammons from Florida
Solaris Santaella from Alaska
Max Schoenfuss from Georgia
Joel C. Scoberg from Great Britain
Kate W. Shea from Virginia
Pierre-Alexandre Sicart from Taiwan
Michael Simon from Canada
Stephanie Smith from Florida
I.J. Sparks from Colorado
Sariah Spring from Utah
Robert Emilio Stahl from Texas
Jake Stein from Oregon
C.W. Stevenson from Texas
James Tallett from Pennsylvania
Cheyenne Tamayo from South Carolina
Tyler Tarter from Utah
Roger Terry from Indiana
Theodore Thomas from Indiana
Kelly Thomas from California
Cameron Thomson from Washigton, D.C.
Thomas Tortorich from Missouri
Stephanie Turner from Canada
James Valko from Florida
William VanderHorst from Georgia
D. J. Walker from New York
Jamie Waters from Tennessee
Catherine Weaver from California
Russell Weisfield from Colorado
Aaron Werntz from Texas
Amy Wethington from South Carolina
Dane Whitaker from Utah
Leslie Wibberley from Canada
K.A. Wiggins from Canada
Lord R. Wilhelm from Indiana
Robert Luke Wilkins from Nevada
Chase Williams from New Jersey
J.D. Wilson from West Virginia
David Wilson from Nevada
Elliott Wink from California
Cliff Winnig from California
William R.D. Wood from Virginia
Jared Wynn from California
Brad Zeiger from Oregon
I can’t believe I got the silver honourable mention! I’m thrilled to be a part of this contest! Thank you so much for the opportunity!
How many entries did you recieve in total?
Congratulations, Ameera! This is very well done to you. We don’t give out actual numbers of entries. But as a general number, we receive thousands of entries every quarter. So this really is quite an achievement. I hope you continue submitting. One of the winners this quarter received four finalists before winning. She had been submitting for several years. You can see her post on FB.
Thanks so much for the honourable mention. That’s really given me a boost. Trying desperately to get my next more ambitious entry completed ready for Sunday’s deadline!
Comgrats to all my fellow Virginians for winning!
Congratulations to everyone who entered!
The first step to winning is getting your work out there.
John Goodwin, Even though I understand that you can’t actually give out the total entries per quarter, it’s a shame that you are not able to. I have noticed though, that many entrants have asked the same question and rightfully so. I think that most of us want to know what kind of competition we are up against when entering at least in numbers if not in terms of actual talent. Just a thought.
Hello Jose, You have observed this is not a new question directed to me. I will say that between both Contests, the Writer and Illustrator, we receive thousands of entries each quarter. The Honorable Mentions are roughly 10% of the entries. This percentage increased considerably from just a few percent when we released the free Writers of the Future Online Workshop 4-5 years ago. Entry numbers vary quarter to quarter, with the 4th quarter being the biggest at the end of the year.
Many writers who win an Honorable Mention are able to successfully use this fact in their author bios. I see press releases almost once every few weeks noting this fact.
I hope this helps!
I’m not sure why my name doesn’t appear in the list when you just sent me an email congratulating me on my Honorable Mention. Regardless, thanks for the mention! You’ll probably be seeing more of my work at some point.
James the emails that just went out were for Q2, this is the blog for Q1. I am sure you name will be listed on the Q2 blog once it is posted, Congratulations on your Honorable Mention!