FICTION WAR SUMMER 2017Q3 PROMPT
"Seven Years"​
CHAMPION, FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
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Congratulations to our Fiction War Summer Champion Elizabeth Buege, Finalists, and to every Fiction Warrior. We have some returning finalists and a ton of brand new authors to celebrate!
Finalists will receive their cash honoraria within 30 days of printing — awards are contingent upon first publishing within Fiction War Magazine — please do not publish submissions elsewhere before then. Open Call submissions may substitute for withdrawn/ineligible selections.
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Congratulations to the following authors:
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Elizabeth Buege (A BRIEF TIMELINE)
Alex Benarzi (RICK’S RETURN)
Shannon Burton (THE RETURN)
Hannah Golding (TIME IS LOVE’S FOOL)
Carrie Houghton (STOLEN YEARS)
Alexis Hunter (REGRETS TO ALICE)
Laureen Katana (LEAN AND UGLY COWS)
Annmarie Lockhart (INDENTURE)
Storme Maynard (AS IF TO STARDUST)
Vickey Mouze (BACK IN VEGAS)
Andrew Rodgers (ASTRONAUT APPLICATION)
Dee Roycroft (A TINY PIECE OF THUNDER)
Erika Willaert (TERMINAL)
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21-24 JULY 2017
$2400 in awards
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Enter the 3-DAY FICTION WAR™ and compete with writers from around the world for a share of up to $2400 in awards and publishing within Fiction War Magazine Issue 4.
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FIFTEEN FINALISTS including
ONE CHAMPION entry will be selected from all submissions.
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AWARDS
$1000 CHAMPION
$100 FOURTEEN FINALISTS
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TOP 15 ENTRIES PUBLISHED IN
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE
24 July 2017 12PM CDT
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11 September 2017
Finalists
Back in Vegas
Lean and Ugly Cows
Regrets to Alice
Rick’s Return
Indenture
A Tiny Piece of Thunder
The Return
A Brief Timeline
Terminal
As If to Stardust
Time is Love’s Fool
Astronaut Application
Stolen Years
.900–.949
Seeding the Pot
You Can’t Go Back
What Comes After
Hooked
For Sadie
Seven Years to Find You
And Baby Makes Lunch
The Tell
Love Rises
.875–.899
Nothing Was Forever
The Only Regret
The Memory Station
Taken
The Death of Mrs. Privet
Spit or Swallow?
.850–.874
The Art of Falling
.800–.849
Seven Years to Nowhere
Mad Mama
The Retiree
Triple Sevens
Luck and Order
Dog Days
The Year of the Pig
Marjories Garden
Firefly Waltz
Journey to Solitude
Love Notes to No One
Harbinger Hotel
.750–.799
The Seven Year Famine
It’s Been Seven Years
Cuídale
Seven Winters*
How to Hide Your Skeletons
The Shrine of Endurance
Seven-Pointed Star
Unrestrainable
Record Breaker
Angel Eyes
Father Time
End of the End
Seconds
Scratching the Itch
Seven Years a Ghost
The Seven-Year Death
Fallow
Marbles
Cookie
Two Left
The Call of the Ocean
Second Chance
Dreams
Andrew, Squatter…
Jane Jones and the Kool-Aid…
A Confession
The Railroad
Seven Years Out
Dandelion Wishes
Outside the Lines
A Father’s Love
Pinnacle
Alpha
The Apprentice
The Inconstant Moon
Mothership Down
Cast Not
Ap(parent) Danger
Jewel/Gem Offering
eLon-4 Breaks a Mirror
.749 and below are not listed.
Works within each score range
are in the order of submission.