Announcing the Finalists and Category Winners of the 2nd Annual Short Story Contest

Something Or Other Publishing is proud to present the finalists and the category winners of the 2nd Annual Short Story Contest, our flagship program to provide emerging authors with a unique opportunity to get started in the publishing industry.

SOOP’s Author-Driven Publishing Model combines the best elements of both traditional and self-publishing while taking advantage of social media and crowdsourcing to educate and empower authors to master the “3 P’s” of publishing: Product, Platform, and Promotion. 

Every year, our company honors excellence in writing short stories and flash fiction, where winners get numerous guaranteed cash awards (totaling over $5,000 this year) and a publishing contract to get their stories out to the world. As a result, authors understand the process of landing a publishing contract and the chances of earning much higher royalties than traditional publishing.

We were pleased with the quality of the submissions this year, resulting in several difficult tie-breakers. Congratulations to everyone who won a prize; your time to cherish and celebrate your work has finally arrived! At the same time, some categories needed more representation, requiring consolidation in multi-genre categories to make the prizes meaningful to our competitors. We invite everyone who performed well and did not make the cut to keep their heads up and don’t give up! You still have a chance to become a published author by submitting various entries for next year’s competition, now with new categories!

Wade Fransson, Founder of Something Or Other Publishing, LLC. 

Our independent panel of judges has awarded the category prizes to the finalists in the list below, and please stay tuned for the Grand Prize Winners next week! 

2nd Annual Short Story Contest

Finalists

	Zeepak and The Wheelchair of Fortune by Selcuk Ceylan  1st Prize Winner
	No Monsters in this House by Preeti C. Sharma 2nd Prize Winner
	Tentative: The Myth of Creation and Rain by Comfort Mordi 3rd Prize Winner

	The Dragon of Chilkoot Pass by Henrietta DuCap 1st Prize Winner
	In These Dark Woods by J. C. Gentry 2nd Prize Winner
	Collecting Dust by Lauren Parisi 3rd Prize Winner

	No Time For Kisses by Sharon Grata 1st Prize Winner
	Mind the Gap by M. Catherine Frederick 2nd Prize Winner
	Dirty Laundry by Adanya Shadi 3rd Prize Winner

	Broke by John Jeffire 1st Prize Winner
	Wish by Soham Ganguly 2nd Prize Winner
	Suicide by Assassination by James Coffey 3rd Prize Winner

	Breaking Through by Lisa Jane Hussey 1st Prize Winner
	The Little Things by Celine Elizabeth 2nd Prize Winner
	They Love Me There by Pastor Dale 3rd Prize Winner

	The Etching by Dylan Lyons 1st Prize Winner
	Stay with Me by Marcus Lopes 2nd Prize Winner
	The Woman With Silver Hair by Clarissa Lux 3rd Prize Winner

	Nine-Thirty by Beatrice  1st Prize Winner
	A Few Stifled Tears by Jessica Reese 2nd Prize Winner

	Living My Vision without Sight: My Purpose Then and Now by JW Smith  1st Prize Winner
	Junior and The Doll by Liz Reeder 2nd Prize Winner
	The Drouth by Dennis McCurdy 3rd Prize Winner

	On Being Alone at the End of the World by Liana DeMasi 1st Prize Winner
	The Wrath of Selene by RS Morrison 2nd Prize Winner
	What Remains by Christopher Epley 3rd Prize Winner

	White Walls by Ashley Raquelle 1st Prize Winner
	The Birthmark by Ashleigh Underwood 2nd Prize Winner

Thank you so much for your participation, and don’t hesitate to test your talent one more time by submitting a new short story to our 3rd Annual Short Story Contest.