Congratulations to everyone who managed to submit an entry during the past six weeks, it's been a wild ride. We so appreciate the opportunity to read your work!
If you have a spare moment, please take this SURVEY to help us improve future portions. And now, the moment you've been waiting for, the 2020 Portion 1 overall winners are:
Tenth Place: Sean Fallon
Ninth Place: Chrissie Rohrman
Eighth Place: K.M. Shapiro
Seventh Place: Pamela Hellig
Sixth Place: Lauren Sibley
Fifth Place: Amber Felt
Fourth Place: Harvey Brown
Third Place: Madeleine Pelletier
Second Place: Lisa Fox
First Place: Haley M. Hwang
Way to go, writers!!
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Congratulations everyone!!!!!!!
Congrats, everyone! Everyone who participated is amazing!
Congratulations everyone!!! This was an amazing experience, thank you to the organizers for running such an awesome event! ❤
Oh my Gosh! I had no idea, I never placed in top 5 for any event - who woulda thunk LOL ☺ what an amazing experience. Congratulations everyone! I wish I could read EVERYONE'S stories. I can't wait to buy the anthology so I can at least read the top 5 for each event.
Congratulations, everyone. :)
What a wonderful experience. Thank you so much to the organisers and judges for running this portion so seamlessly and for providing incredibly detailed, personal and useful feedback for each event.
Congrats to the top ten, to the. top five from each event, to everyone who submitted to every event, and to everyone who wrote anything, regardless of whether it was submitted or not! We made it to through and will have another chance in the fall! Hope to see you all there!
Many thanks to the organizers and the judges for coming up with prompts that pushed me way out of my comfort zone and for the valuable feedback along the way. Congratulations to everyone who participated - this was truly a marathon event and putting a story out there each and every week was no easy task! (My brain still hurts). What a fun and fabulous competition; I'll definitely be back! Thank you!!!
What an amazing game... Really reminded me like I fell in love with writing in the first place
Brilliant! Well done everyone. Can't wait to buy the anthology so I can read the winning stories!
Congrats, everyone! One of these cycles, I *will* get stories submitted to all five events! Can't wait to read everyone's stories. :)
This has been an exhausting but wonderful experience. I've been a competition junkie for a few years now, but this is really a one of a kind ride. I'm so proud of everyone who participated, even if you didn't submit a story for all five events. I'm so excited and shocked to have placed, and I can't wait for the next portion!
Looking through this list of winners, I'm so proud to see 22 of the 27 entries are by unique authors and only half this portion's winners have ever participated in Writer's Games! For so many participants this portion, including some of our winners, English is their second or third language. It's so amazing watching this come together!
Winners, we'll have editorial notes for you soon. Everyone should watch this post for the Judges' Choice announcement later this week!
Winner of this portion's Judges' Choice for favorite entry overall: Becky Bailey for her story, Theo the Icky Fish!
Congratulations Becky! Can’t wait to read it.