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FMAM
'Fire to Fly' SHORT STORY Contest 2003
WINNERS
FMAM
'Fire to Fly' SHORT STORY Contest for 2003
FINALISTS
FMAM 'Fire to Fly'
SHORT STORY Contest for 2003
Semi-Finalists
2003 'Fire to Fly' Contest
FMAM
'Fire to Fly' SHORT STORY Contest for 2003
Watch for the new 2004 'Fire
to Fly' SHORT STORY Contest - coming soon!
FMAM –Futures
Mysterious Anthology Magazine—is pleased to bring
you our 6th Annual FIRE TO FLY SHORT STORY CONTEST FOR
2003.
The stakes are
higher, the topics more varied. And we’re doing something
new this year: we’re adding MORE WINNERS! Yes, that’s
right, more chances for YOU to WIN!
PRIZES:
1st prize: $300,
plus publication in FMAM, and a caricatoon drawn by our
very own ToonMan, James Oddie
2nd prize: $100,
plus publication in FMAM, and a 1-year subscription to
FMAM
3rd prize: $50,
plus publication in FMAM, and a 1-year subscription to
FMAM
4th thru 8th prizes:
Honorable Mention PLUS a one-year subscription to FMAM.
(That’s a $52 value inside the USA!!!!)
ALL winners will
receive an original art award certificate created by Pete
Welling. TOP 10 FINALISTS will also be considered for
publication in FMAM by our head of fiction, Earl Staggs,
who is also one of the final judges. Speaking of judges.
Check out our list of judges.
Would you like your story to be read by the best?*
RULES:
Enter by following these 3 simple steps:
Step 1:
Enter your short mystery of 5000 words or less using one
of the following categories:
-
Crimes
of Passion
-
Crimes in
the Future
-
Crimes that
take us Back in Time
-
Crimes mixed
with Horror
-
Crimes of
the Spirit (ghosts, supernatural, etc.)
-
Crimes that
Imitate your Favorite Classic
This year we’ll
have a separate FLASH ‘fire to fly’.
You may pick any one of the above categories and write
500 words or less. FLASH will have its own winners/prizes.
1st place FLASH
‘fire to fly’: $100 and publication in FMAM*
3 Honorable Mentions
will receive yearly FMAM subscriptions and the special
art certificate created by Pete Welling.
*minimum of 20
entries or money will be refunded
Step 2:
Send your check (payable to Futures Magazine) in the amount
of $15 per story to FUTURES, 3039 38th Ave. South, Minneapolis,
MN 55406. Enter as many as you like. NO LIMIT! You can
also pay your entry fee
online via PayPal.
NOTE: You MAY
enter reprints, and you may also enter your story and
specify that you do not want it published in FMAM if it
wins –that is always your choice!
Step 3:
Paste your entry in an email to babs@fmam.biz
by the DEADLINE of Oct. 31, 2003. Put “Fire to Fly
2003” in the subject heading. In the body of your
email (no email attachments, please) include your story
(be sure to double space between paragraphs), title, your
name, address, phone number, email, word count, and short
bio. At the end please include the words THE END. All
entrants will be notified that stories have been received.
Questions? Contact babs at babs@fmam.biz.
Please note:
If you’d like to have your story considered for
an issue of FMAM, too, (and it is NOT a reprint), please
write to Babs for instructions at babs@fmam.biz.
That’s it!
3 simple steps to ENTER! And it’d be a CRIME not
to. So what are you waiting for? Send in your entries
TODAY!
Insider Tips:
We LOVE a GREAT
title. Use your imagination from the get go. We also love
a great mystery that keeps us on the edge of our chairs.
We want a great beginning and a great ending. Surprise
us on occasion. If you need some tips, go to G. Miki Hayden’s
HOW TO WRITE A MYSTERY. Give us characters to love and
hate and don’t be afraid of unusual settings. Take
us to the future, back to the past, or right here to today,
but make it the best you’ve got!
In addition we're
going to do something I think is GREAT for the FMAM contests
this year. We'll have the best group of judges I've ever
seen assembled at one time. If you have not entered the
fire to fly, do it now! I'm going to be in charge of this
whole thing, our director had other commitments call to
her at the last minute and left me in charge. HAHAHA!
Here's a partial list of the judges. We'll have 3 tiers,
early, mid and final judges, check THIS out! Tony Fennelly,
G. Miki Hayden, Lonnie Cruse Clint Gaige (Quiet Storm
Publisher and wow of a guy!) bookcrazy.net radio host,
too! Stephen D Rogers, Tim Miller, Seymour Shubin, Claudia
McCants, Michael Bracken, Chris Freeburn, Phillip Tomasso,
Warren Murphy, Jack Bludis, Alex Matthews, Jason Marchi
(New Century Awards) and I know I'm forgetting more. FMAM's
two main contests will be judged by the best.
... babs
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'Fire to Fly' SHORT STORY Contest for 2003
SEMI- FINALISTS
FMAM
is proud to say that after 6 years the ‘fire to fly’
Contest has taken off and it IS flying! The stories we
saw in 2003 were fabulous, and many! Because of this I
am going to have many more Honorable Mention winners (and
they will get prizes!) than we’d anticipated. I wish
I could reward every one of you! Please don’t feel
bad if you didn’t make this list, I can’t tell
you what quality work came flying in! We’ll have
guidelines for 2004 listed soon and I hope you’ll
enter. You are ALL winners in my book! Do NOT forget to
check out our SLESAR TWIST contest
which goes on until Dec 15th! Remember, the winner
of ST contest will be in DIME,
too!
After
Thanksgiving we will start round two of the judging process.
You’ll be able to find the results and see who the
FINALISTS are right here on Jan 1st and the WINNERS (although
we will notify them much sooner) will be listed with our
Feb 1st updates! YAHOOO! Please do send me any and all
comments and suggestions, I love to hear from you. Write
to me at babs@fmam.biz
-babs
SEMI
FINALISTS FOR THE 2003 ANNUAL FMAM ‘FIRE TO FLY’
CONTEST AWARDS!
Note
– these are in no particular order!
MAN
IN THE MOON By Terry Campbell
BLOOD
ON THE ROCKS by Dorothy Francis
With
Love, Veronica By Ken Goldman
Hard
Candy by Jan Lewis
Where
Myra Went by H. Susan Shaw
REJECTION
By A. Hunt (Kadi Easley)
AMERICAN
LEGENDS By Gregory S. Palmer
BLEEDING
HEART by Melanie Noto
Retribution
by Vickie Britton
VICTIM
of circumstances ~by Rick Magers
SAYONARA,
MR. CHIPS by Sunny Frazier
“Body
in the Park” by Laura Elvebak
“Black
and White and Red all Over” by Dave Schwinghammer
SHOT
ON LOCATION: Murder in Hollywood by Carol L. Skolnick
AT
THE END OF MY ROPE By Nancy Sweetland
Fowl
Play by Debra Purdy Kong
THE
MASTER'S WIFE by Patricia Gulley
AVENGING
APPARITIONS by Debi Maehs
Scent
of Lotus on a Windy Day by John H. Reid
Lydia
by Darrell James
DeceptNO!
By CV Gelvin
The
Red Hat Corpse - A Lonely Detective Mystery by Charles
E. Schwarz
In
Madness and in Health By Misty M. Hatch
The
Tell Tale Fart By Karen Sideris (Poe)
NO
SALE by Elizabeth Dearl
SNOWBOUND
By Laura Elvebak
The
Date by Sue-Lane Wood
ONE
TIMES TWO IS ONE? by Mel Goldberg
UZZLE-PYE
by FRANK BUGIARDO
FAMILY
SECRETS by Jan Christensen
The
Deadly Dream By Deanna D. Koehl
Watch
My Dream by Kfir Luzzatto
BAYOU
NIGHTS By Nancy Sweetland
Into
Thin Air By David Wilcox
The
Bridge by Darrell James
She
Was the Sweetest Girl by by Fahey Doyle
And
The Winner Is by Jo Rockhill
Donna
was her Name by Cymry McKay (Jan Holloway)
MYTH,
MAGIC & MADNESS By Cora Ramos
DEATH
UNDERGROUND by J.K. Cummins
"Dinner
for the Dead" by CHRIS MORROW
THE
JEWEL OF JAINA by Charles Schaeffer
THE
CHASE by Christie Rose
Purity’s
Perfect Murder by C. Rochelle Weidner
Last
Rights By Justin Gustainis
A Cut
Above by Del Tinsley
Cigarettes
Kill by Daniel E. Martin
What’s
Behind Door Number One? By Lori G. Armstrong
Forgive
Me, Father By George J. Bryjak
BITTER
HONEY by Phylis Warady
Heart
of Stone by Vickie Britton
Calliope’s
Revenge by Dave Schwinghammer
Soliloquy
By Dana Solomon
And
Justice For All by Vicki M. Taylor
Whispers
in the Everglades by Julie Palella
SAUCE
FOR THE GOOSE, SLEEP FOR THE GANDER by Carolyn Westergren
A Perfect
Face by Ms. Claudia Pierrot
FLASH
‘fire to fly’ semifinalists!
Who
Killed Cock Robin? by Stephen M. Wilson
“Sauce
for the Gander” by Charles Schaeffer
TRUE
CONFECTIONS by Sunny Frazier
BLIND
DATE by Candace Wiggins
By
the Time He Gets to Phoenix by David Wilcox
The
Real McCoy by David Wilcox
Mr.
and Mrs. Harper Don't Live Here Anymore by Robyn Reagin
THE
ENVELOPE, PLEASE by Charles Schaeffer
HOUSE
SITTER by J.K. Cummins
He
Sees Dead People by Alana White
The
High Price of Early Retirement by Lori G. Armstrong
SHERLOCK
HOLMES And JACK THE RIPPER by Rick Magers
Official
Response by Lisa L. Powell
MYTH,
MAGIC & MADNESS by Cora Ramos
Dinner
Out byTammy Kaiser
Choola
by Tammy Kaiser
All Semi-finalists
who would like a copy of any issue of FMAM that is still
in stock, or an up coming issue, just ask me! I’m
thrilled to read all of your great stories! -babs
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JUDGES for ROUND ONE of FIRE TO FLY
Bret Wright lives in Colorado where
he writes both fiction and non-fiction stories. His work
has appeared in InformArt Magazine, Futures Mysterious
Anthology Magazine, EOTU, Grit, and a host of others.
He is co-publisher of Apollo’s Lyre Ezine, the ‘zine
for writers, by writers. You may reach him at www.apolloslyre.com
where you’ll see an interview he did of babs!
Apollo's Lyre is an online ezine loaded
with writing articles, author profiles, book announcements,
etc... for writers of every caliber and genre.
Susan Fry has sold fiction to publications
including Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine,
Asimov’s, and Cemetery Dance, and to several
anthologies, including The Museum of Horrors, which
won the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best anthology. In
2001, she won a first-place prize in the Writers of
the Future contest. She has an M.A. and a B.A. from
Stanford University. susan@steeltrap.com
Christine Speakman speakpc@mountaincable.net
Writer, Proofreader, FMAM reader, Lifetime reader, and
mother of future FMAM reader! – Chris lives in Canada
April May Rollins amrollins69@netzero.net
writer from New Hampshire with a new book contract! Watch
for April’s book, titled, The Mardu Project
Dale Stoyer dlstoyer@yahoo.com
Writer with a sense of humor from Cheektowaga, NY
Patty G. Henderson www.pghenderson.com
TANGLED AND DARK, coming in 2004 from Bella Books.
"Think the X-Files meets a lesbian Jackie Collins
for a weekend of fun and frolic at The House of Usher."
Ellen Hart, author of the Jane Lawless mystery series.
Shannon Riggs rriggs02@sprynet.com
currently lives and writes in Victoria, BC. A college
writing instructor, Shannon enjoys writing fiction, poetry,
essays, and articles. She currently serves on the editorial
team of Write Away, a publication of the Victoria Writers'
Society. Visit her website at: http://members.shaw.ca/shannonriggs/
Donna Bedrick
jondon1@msn.com editor from THE WRITER’S HOOD
www.writershood.com/
This is a terrific site, go see what I mean!
Mark Orr otrfan@comcast.net
writer extraordinaire from Tennessee and senior mystery
editor of FMAM check out Mark at www.fmam.biz on the STAFF
page! And read his column in the up coming issue of
FMAM, titled, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN EDITORS
Daniel Blackston writer, editor for
SFReader http://www.sfreader.com/firebrand.asp
and FMAM’s senior SPECULATIVE FICTION editor. His
column in FMAM is titled the PROSE
DETECTIVE and what a writer he is. What an editor
he is! Check him out at www.fmam.biz
! (can you tell I LOVE my team!)
RC Hildebrandt, literary guru and
poet with no equal in my mind. RC is literary advisor
and poetry editor for FMAM. Her lists of accomplishments
are too numerous to mention, PUSHCART PRIZE AWARD WINNER
will suffice. RC is on our staff
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APPLAUSE AND HUGE THANKS TO THESE FIRST
ROUND JUDGES! -babs
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