The deadline for the latest Clarity of Night flash fiction contest is past. The final score is 161 entries, with 74 of them making it into the finalist running. Now readers can continue to sort through their favorites and send in their votes for the top five. Here are the official rules:
- Contest participants are invited to vote for their top 5 favorite entries by emailing their votes to jevanswriter at yahoo dot com.
- Please vote by finalist number and list your votes from 1 to 5 with 1 being your top vote.
- I will award 5 points for your 1st vote, 4 points for your 2nd vote, 3 points for your 3rd, 2 points for your 4th, and 1 point for your 5th. If you submit fewer than 5 votes, I’ll award the least number of votes possible for each choice (for example, if you vote for only 2 entries, I’ll award 2 and 1 points, respectively).
- You may not vote for your own entry. Please specify your Night Owl Number at the beginning of your email.
- At the close of Readers’ Choice Award voting, I will tally the points. The winner will be the entry with the most points.
- I reserve the right to award additional Readers’ Choice Awards with or without prizes.
Cast your votes before Monday, August 2nd, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.).
If you’d like to vote for me, my entry, titled “The Care and Feeding of Angels,” is Finalist #9. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read it and posted such generous comments. Good luck to all the entrants.
So….will you be the first person to win a CoN contest twice?
It'd be fun if it happened, certainly, but there are quite a few strong entries in the running, so we'll see how things turn out. Thanks, Aerin!
WHY oh WHY didn't I put money on you?!? Sheesh. Next CoN, we need a bookie.
Hopefully I can get a cut somewhere in there, heheh. Also, with the agent, hoping someday to be able to work with Jason by having a book up for grabs for the winners of a future contest. *crosses fingers*