There are many places for people to submit your stories and poetry. I bring you this opportunity because it is a chance for healing and sharing your story if you are the parent of a child who was murdered.

Storytelling is a powerful source of healing. This is true whether you are creating what I call a “factional” story (one that includes some fictitious and some true elements), whether you are sticking to what happened or whether you are creating a fictional story that touches on the same emotions.

If you have experienced a tragedy such as this, please consider sharing your story.

Call for Short Stories or Poetry from Parents of Murdered Children

Dr. Edna Ellison and Dr. Linda Greer are doing a compilation for a ministry book for parents of murdered children. We are requesting short stories of 1000 words or less or short poems of 20 lines maximum from parents who have had a child murdered (age 22 or younger). We would like parents to include a key Bible verse used to gain strength and hope for this crisis in their lives. Please try to focus on the initial grief, the healing process and the hope found in God, rather than great details of the loss of your child. Please do not submit stories on missing children.

Although we regret we can’t offer a fee for your work, we can give you one free copy of the final work when it is published and a discount on any other books you choose to purchase. Please use alternate names for persons in your work for your protection or pseudonyms as authors or poets. Send Word documents in Times New Roman, double-spaced. Attach a separate cover sheet including your real name, address, email, and telephone numbers. Please attach your documents in an email with “PMOC” in the subject line to drgreer@charter.net . In the email body please indicate if it is a poem or a short story. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 1, 2010.

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wordsmitten media, inc. :: short story awards announced :: $1,010.00 award for fiction

This week, we are announcing the five finalists for the WordSmitten annual short story awards.

Join us in congratulating these five outstanding writers for their
exceptional work and for the short stories submitted this summer for WordSmitten’s 2008 fiction competition.

We again congratulate our 2007 winner, Andrew Davis, for his story
titled, “Same Thing, Only Different.” We thank our 2007 fiction judge,
author and FSU professor emerita Janet Burroway for  her contribution
to last year’s event.

WordSmitten
TenTen Short Story Award.  www.wordsmitten.com/fiction.html
We will be publishing the stories of each of the finalists on our site and all rights return to each writer upon publication. On Sunday, December 14, on our New York broadcast, we will be announcing the finalists.

We wish you great success with your writing career and look forward to hearing from you.
Join us in congratulating these outstanding writers.
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• The 2008 TenTen Short Story finalists are:
• Lindsay Coppens, Worcester, MA, for her story titled, “Passing Days”
• Grace Marcus and Alan Sirois, Doylestown, PA, for their co-authored story titled, “No Show”
• Jerome Powell, San Diego, CA, for his story titled, “This Beauty”
• George Sheanshang, New York, NY, for his story titled, “New Gloom”
• Gila Tal-Green, Beit Shemesh, Israel, for her story titled, “The Costume Room”

For more information about the TenTen Short Story competition, visit www.wordsmitten.com and click on The Ten Ten.

Some background on the WordSmitten short story award. This event is a writing exercise that requires a short story written with precision, told with exactly 1,010 words. Each year, we award $1,010 (thus The TenTen Award) and we anticipate that the winning writer will spend one section of the award on something vital, like a new computer, rent, a mortgage, or a donation to their favorite charity (often, themselves). In addition, we anticipate that the ten dollars will go to something to celebrate the award and we hope that might be a great glass of wine, a beer, something green and/or edible like exotic tea. Whether it is a glass of champagne or a water filter for the kitchen faucet, we hope that the $10.00 goes to something that includes friends and family.  That’s the story behind the WordSmitten Ten Ten Award. We look for great things from our winners and wish them great success in their writing.

The Staff and Volunteers
WordSmitten Media, Inc.
www.wordsmitten.com

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