storySouth Million Writers Award

The nomination period for the 2007 storySouth Million Writers Award is open until March 31, 2008. If you liked any of the stories published here in 2007, please head on over and nominate your favorite. A word, though - to qualify, the story must be more than 1,000 words long, which disqualifies several excellent stories from our list. We're working on recitifying this regretable prejudice for next year.

The stories that qualify are:
Dry Rub
The Dream Machine
MisLiza was Soothsaid
The Tennessee Scrambler
(although if you want to nominate Mrs. Z's Beauty Parlor, it's damn close to 1,000 words - maybe nobody will notice ;)

Last year, Mark MacNamara's story, "Vertically Divided, Blue-Red-White," made the Top Ten and tied for 5th with a story published at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. This was a tremendous honor for Mark, as it was his first published story, and for Southern Gothic, as 2006 was our first full year of publication.