Short Story Awards and a Market Note

Today is the last day to post your nominations for the storySouth Million Writers Award. Online stories of any length over 1000 words and in any genre can be nominated. Readers are allowed one nomination and editors three. Top prize for the winning story is $400 plus a $100 gift certificate. Money aside, this is a great opportunity to get short stories and publishing venues out in front of the public. You can find the details at http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/

The Short Mystery Fiction Society is also open for Derringer nominations until March 15. Any editor who publishes short mystery fiction is eligible to nominate stories. You don't have to be a member of the society to participate, though it's a great group of people who share their love for short fiction. There are four categories from flash to novelette that you can submit nominations for. You can find all the details at http://shortmystery.blogspot.com/ Current members of the society can nominate two stories each.

And on a sad note, The Feral Pages will no longer be a bi-monthly zine. Editor, Lyman Feero, has published a notice on the site to make everyone aware of the changes he's making. Which will be switching from a zine to a once a year print anthology. He will be starting up the Feral Pages blog on March 15 for those who would like to discuss cross genre writing and he'll be posting the guidelines for the anthology at that time. For more details go here http://www.theferalpages.com/