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5th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest

Posted on 11 January 2010 by Warren Adler

People’s Choice Voting is closed.

We’re pleased to announce our First place winner and the People’s Choice winner for the 5th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest.

Cash prizes will be offered to the winners as follows:

First Prize: $1000
People’s Choice Prize: $500
Three remaining finalists: $150 each

Here is the winner:

The First Prize Winner: The Week My Sister Died by Kari Wicker of Greenville, NC

Here is the People’s Choice finalist:

Scrambled Lives by Doris Chauvancy of Franklin, NJ

Remaining finalists:

Old Friends by Ruvym Gilman of Brooklyn, NY
Low Tide Turning by John Blair of San Marcos, TX
The Thing with Feathers by Evan Guilford-Blake of Stone Mountain, GA

We are exploring the possibilities of publishing an e-book anthology under the banner of Stonehouse Press of all contest winners, depending on permissions of the authors. If this can be done, we will make the announcement when the winners of this contest are chosen.

See winners from our previous contests:

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The Great Beyond

My friends are passing at alarming rates
I hope there's such a thing as pearly gates
That enter into some place nice
Some beautiful eternal paradise
While still around we'll never know
Not until its our time to go
It would be fun to see old friends again
And great to learn there is no end

-W.A.

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The Children of the Roses

Cult

Mourning Glory

The War of the Roses

Random Hearts

Trans-Siberian Express

The Casanova Embrace

Blood Ties

Natural Enemies

Banquet Before Dawn

The Housewife Blues

Madeline's Miracles

We Are Holding the President Hostage

Private Lies

Twilight Child

The Henderson Equation

Undertow

New York Echoes

The Sunset Gang

Never Too Late for Love

Jackson Hole - Uneasy Eden

The Washington Dossier Stories

American Quartet

American Sextet

Death of a Washington Madame

The Witch of Watergate

Senator Love

Immaculate Deception

The Ties That Bind

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5th Annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest

Cash prizes will be offered to the winners as follows:

Here is the winner:

Here is the People’s Choice finalist:

Remaining finalists:

See winners from our previous contests:

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