The Rose & Thorn wishes to congratulate Suzanne LaFetra, author of Little Earthquakes, our nominee for the 2007 Micro Award.
This award is for short short fiction under 1000 words that appeared online or in print during 2007. Winners and all nominees will be posted on the official Micro Awards Website on or about December 15.
The Rose & Thorn wishes to congratulate our three nominees for this year's Million Writers Award from storySouth.
Adnan Mahmutovic "Integration Under the Midnight Sun"
Brett Rosenblatt "A Night at the Plywood Palace"
Drue Fairlie "Only Dragons Live Forever"
For this award editors of online publications were asked to nominate up to three pieces of short fiction, over 1000 words, that appeared in an online publication in the year 2007. Members of the public can nominate one story. If you have another favorite story that appeared in The Rose & Thorn in 2007, you can nominate it here. Check out the Award Website
after April 15. Voting on the 10 most notable stories chosen by storySouth will be open to public voting on May 1.
The Rose & Thorn wishes to congratulate the following nominees in the prose category for Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2007 anthology, a print volume forthcoming in Spring 2008. The prose category includes both essays and fiction. All pieces must have appeared in calendar year 2007.
Fiction:
Integration Under the Midnight Sun by Adnan Mahmutovic
Summer 2007
Essay:
Absolution by Erin McKnight
Spring 2007
The Rose & Thorn wishes to congratulate the following nominees for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net 2007 anthology. To qualify, nominations of fiction and poetry had to have appeared in an exclusively online publication between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007.
Fiction:
Fireproof by Krishan Coupland
Spring 2007
Roseland by Rayne Ayers Debski
Fall 2006
Poetry:
Survey Crew by M. Frost
Fall 2006
Coffeehouse Metaphysics by Pete Lee
Winter 2006
vanitas by Tim J. Brennan
Winter 2006
On the Fly in Celebration by Cherryl E. Garner
Spring 2007
X & Y by Lindsay D’Andrea
Spring 2007
Leaves Seen Sadly by Chris Crittenden
Winter 2006
