FICTION CONTEST WINNERS

CONGRATULATIONS!

Each winner has also received a subscription to Gator Springs Gazette. Winning stories will be published in
GSG issue 2/2005, ARE WE THERE YET?

Fandango Virtual sends thanks to all contest entrants and gives special thanks to the dauntless contest readers, Gazette staff members Bob Arter, Gabriel Orgrease and Jonathan Redhorse and to contest administrator, Maude Linley. Through their efforts, twelve stories were chosen in a blind reading. The authors who made the short list (in alphabetical order) were Rusty Barnes, Kathy Fish, Anne Marie Jackson, Wenonah Lyon, Lisa McMann, Richard Madelin, Pieter Mayer, Steve Newton, Susan O’Neill, Patricia Parkinson and Ann Walters (Sharon Hurlbut).

Our appreciation is extended to Tom Saunders for the difficult task of choosing the final winners from those twelve fine stories. Tom is the author of his own outstanding collection of short stories, Brother, what strange place is this? Previous work has been published in the anthologies Pleasure Vessels and Voices from the Web.

Brother, what strange place is this?
by Tom Saunders

From the pagan brutalities of a Welsh island at the time of the Armada in The Seal Man to the quest for redemption of an English jazz pianist in modern day Cuba in The Calle de Obra Pia, the stories explore the complexities of history and art and the twists and turns of the human journey.

Brother, What Strange Place Is This? is Tom Saunders’ first short story collection. Beautifully, often lyrically written, these stories reveal a keen and playful intelligence at work and all are executed with humour and compassion.

This is a truly remarkable debut, both original and imaginative. Not just a book for lovers of finely crafted short stories, but for everyone interested in the art of writing and in literature itself.

Now available at http://ukapress.ukauthors.com/

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