And the winner is …!
Posted: June 10, 2022 Filed under: Anthology, Book Promotion, Dark Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Stories, WordCrafter Press, Writing Contest 26 Comments
Announcing the winner of the 2022 WordCrafter Short Fiction Contest.
Every year, WordCrafter Press runs an annual short fiction contest and publishes the resulting anthology. The first contest was in 2019, with the Whispers of the Past paranormal anthology, followed by Spirits of the West paranormal western anthology in 2020, and Where Spirits Linger paranormal anthology in 2021.
Today it pleases me to announce that Roberta Eaton Cheadle is the winner of the 2022 WordCrafter Short Fiction Contest. Robbie has entered the WordCrafter Short Fiction Contest every year since 2019 and this year her story “The Bite” stood out and shined, although with so many good stories submitted, it was still quite difficult to choose. I am proud to include her story in Visions.
The Visions anthology will be different from years past in that I have included stories by invitation only, which were not a part of the contest, so it will be a bit larger than previous anthologies, with a total of nineteen terrific stories for your reading enjoyment. In addition to Robbie, contributing authors include previous contest winners, Jeff Bowles and Christa Planko; invited authors Sara McBride, W.T. Patterson, Julie Jones, Zack Ellafy, Leah Cutter, Joseph Carribis, D.L.Mullen and Stephanie Kraner; and contest entrants, Patty L. Fletcher, Billie Holladay Skelley, C.J. Serajeddini, C.R. Johansson, Keith J. Hoskins, and Janet Garber.
I look forward to putting this anthology together and sharing it with all of you.
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Congrats, Robbie!
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Thank you, Annette, I am simply delighted.
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Congratulations Robbie, well done. 🙂
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Thank you, Marje. I appreciate your visiting and commenting.
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Congratulations, Robbie! Looking forward to reading your story. I’m very excited about this new anthology!
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Thank you, I am also looking forward to reading it. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
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Congratulations Robbie.
Thanks Kaye for including me in your great work. I read last year’s anthology and enjoyed it much.
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Hi Patty. So glad that you enjoyed last year’s anthology. I believe this one will be even better and I’m very pleased to include your story. It’s always exciting as I watch them come together.🤗
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I cannot wait to read the finished product.
I understand what you mean about enjoying watching it come together. I get that sort of pleasure when I create my magazine.
Speaking of which, when you’re ready to create advertising for the anthology please make certain to send an ad to me so I can give it space in The Writer’s Grapevine. No charge.
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Will do. Thank you
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Thank you, Patty. I am pleased to know you enjoyed the anthology last year.
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Reblogged this on Pattys World and commented:
Congratulations to Robbie and thanks to Kaye for including my story in this wonderful work.
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Thanks for sharing, Patty. 😘
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Hi Kaye, you’re welcome. It’s an honor as well as an obligation to share.
I believe, if I’m to be featured with all these other awesome authors I should be willing to make sure all things about this anthology are shared far and wide.
It would be a privilege to do so even if I weren’t part of this but because I am it is doubly so.
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It’s great to have you aboard, Patty. 😊
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Thanks for sharing, Patty.
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hi, Robbie.
It’s my pleasure and privilege to share. I’m still pinching myself to make sure it’s not a dream that I managed to get a story accepted into an anthology alongside authors such as yourself. Quite a pleasant surprise.
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Hi Patty, I have read some of your work and it’s very good.
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Hi, thanks tons for that. This is a fiction and other than the story Bubba told and I wrote for him I’ve not done much.
Anyhow, we’ll see how this goes.
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Congratulations, Robbie!! And thank you, Kaye Lynne Booth for putting together this anthology. Looking forward to the read!
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It is my pleasure, and I’m very excited about the Visions anthology. It has more authors and more stories than anthologies of the past, and I think it will be the best WordCrafter anthology yet. It will be scheduled to come out in October. Thanks for your comment.
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Thank you, Rebecca. I am so excited that this story won the challenge. The tarantella dance was wonderful inspiration.
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A big congratulations to Robbie!!
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Congratulations, Robbie! So excited for you! 😊
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[…] I contributed a short story called The Bite to this anthology which will be available later this year. My story was the winning entry for 2022 WordCrafter Short Fiction Contest which is incredibly exciting for me. You can read more about it here: https://writingtoberead.com/2022/06/10/and-the-winner-is/ […]
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