March 20 - June 20, 2010
This is the “Spring into Short Stories” challenge. The goal is to read some of those short stories many of us have gathering wool on our shelves or downloaded on our computers, such as the many I personally have saved.
The stories can be included within an anthology or stand alone.
Here are the rules:
1. The story must be less than 50 pages.
2. The story can be any genre.
That’s pretty simple, isn’t it? So, as you can see, there isn’t a lot of work to this challenge.
Anyone who wishes to participate must sign up by March 19 to be eligible for the prize drawing. However, you can join in at any time during the challenge.
Here’s how to get started:
1. Become a follower of this blog.
2. Add a comment to the sign-up post letting me know you’re participating.
Once you begin reading your stories, do a short review on your own blog, then add a comment and link at the end of the post here under the appropriate week.
For those who would like to participate but don't have a blog, you can leave a short review here.
** UPDATE: Since we've had a couple people join the challenge the last couple days, I've decided to extend the deadline for being eligible for the drawing to April 1!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
We Have a Winner!
The winner of the Spring into Short Stories Challenge drawing is ...
VEENS!
I also am giving honorable mentions to Mel U, Suko and Karen.
So if you all send me your snail mail address to: reading_frenzy at yahoo dot com, I will put together some little prize packages. I will mail them out after the 4th of July holiday because I am going to be gone for a week, but have no fear ... they will eventually show up!
Thanks to all of you for participating in my challenge. It was lots of fun, even though I didn't get to read as many short stories as I would have liked. I'll have to come up with another challenge sometime in the future!