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A Midsummer Tale!

Guess I should remember to publicize my own contest. 😉

AMT is a creative non-fiction contest. Please, resist the urge to make up crap and call it non-fiction. I know it’s hard, Margaret B. Jones, but you can do it! As per usual, the word limit is 3k, and stories must take place in the summer. This year’s theme is:

The theme of the June 2008 A Midsummer Tale contest is: Snapshots. Photographs can trigger memories of events you thought you had forgotten. Has it been a while since you’ve looked at the dusty albums or boxes that hold your family photos? This year’s AMT contest is a chance for you to dig through your yellowing snapshots and reminisce. Choose one old photo and write about the events surrounding it.

Official announcement here. General contest rules. And the AMT specifics.

Now go tell me a story!

There’s a Grammar Day? Who knew?

Not me. Apparently March 4th was National Grammar Day… and I missed it! This is what happens when you don’t keep up with your feeds. The irony, of course, is that my feeds were piling up because I was grading midterms that were full of guess what? Yes, bad grammar. And spelling. (And abused apostrophes and unnecessary quotation marks.) But that’s par for the course.

At least I’ll know for next year. 😉

And the Winners are…

Toasted Cheese Literary Journal is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 A Midsummer Tale Writing Contest:

1st: Dena Riggs Hein, “Fear of Drowning”

2nd: Mary Wuerth, “The Final Wave”

3rd: Jinevrah Aljín, “Shopska Salad”

Honorable Mention:
Richard Ballon, “Sky”
Liz Mierzejewski, “Picasso’s Guitar”

Our thanks to all who entered. You can read the winning stories in the September issue of Toasted Cheese.

The 2008 A Midsummer Tale Writing Contest opens May 1, 2008. Toasted Cheese‘s next contest is Three Cheers and a Tiger in September. Details on all our contests can be found here. Submissions to Toasted Cheese are welcome year-round.