Winner of Doctor Who short story competition announced.

[icebluenothing]

Looks like I can talk about this now:

"[T]hough the competition was aimed at finding just one winner, the judges were so impressed with the quality of many entries they've decided to extend the prize.

'We had an incredibly strong shortlist of the best 25 entries,' explains Guerrier. '[...] we felt our shortlist was of such quality that it deserved a whole book of its own.'

This special anthology, deftly titled How The Doctor Changed My Life, will be published in late 2008. The 24 runners up are:

Violet Addison; Steven Alexander; Mike Amberry; Arnold T Blumberg; Anna Bratton; John Callaghan; Dann Chinn; Stephen Dunn; Richard Goff; Peter Hallbright; Tim Lambert; JR Loflin; Nick May; James C McFetridge; Simon Moore; Michael Montoure; LM Myles; Einar Olgeirsson; Bernard O'Toole; Andrew K Purvis; Michael Rees; Mark Smith; Chris Wing; Caleb Woodbridge."

bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/06/19/46091.shtml

Comments

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

That's fabulous. I'd assumed by the quality of your writing (and the stuff at your website) that you"d been published already. If not congratulations!

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

I just barely met their "not previously professionally published" criteria -- I've sold stories that didn't appear in print, and I've been in print but I've never been paid for it. So there you are. Thanks!

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

I just barely met their "not previously professionally published" criteria -- I've sold stories that didn't appear in print, and I've been in print but I've never been paid for it. So there you are. Thanks!

Two of you guys on the shortlist have stories in the first issue of Lost Luggage. I'm just so thrilled that y'all are getting some respect. You are a really amazing writer and so is Cryptile and I couldn't be happier for you.