Million Writers Award

The storySouth Million Writers Award’s Notable Short Stories of 2006 is now up.

I was a preliminary judge this year and chose 10 of the stories on the list. Other judges included Jeff Bryant, Jeff Crook, Thom Didato, Nick Mamatas, Sean Merrigan, Jessica Schneider, Laurie Seidler, D. Antwan Stewart, Dan Wickett, and two who remained anonymous.

Here are the 10 stories I chose. You should google these writers and read more of their work:

• “Here’s What I’ll Give You” by Amy Havel
• “Go” by Cari Luna
• “Amphibian” by Nick Antosca
• “Chosen” by Elizabeth Ellen
• “Harvest My Heart” by Jeff Crook
• “All But Six” by Adam Cushman
• “La Difficulte d’Etre” by Richard Grayson
• “A Man” by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
• “Rhinoceros” by Michael Squeo
• “A Hard Truth About Waste Management” Sumanth Prabhaker

It’s kind of interesting that the judges’ choices didn’t overlap all that much. I guess there’s just a lot of great on-line fiction out there.

The following Word Riot stories made the list (obviously, I wasn’t allowed to select WR stories for my 10):

• “Driving Naked Westward After Midnight” by S. Melinda Dunlap
  http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=761
• “The Infinite Monkey Theorem” by Marshall Moore
  http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=893
• “I Wash, He Dries” by CP Chang
  http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=783