Adrienne Celt - Tempe, AZ - In Pursuit of Lost Time
Jacob Cutler - Sandy, UT - Hope Less
CJ Hauser - Brooklyn, NY - Letters in War Time
Rob Jacklosky - Bronx, NY - Baby Envy
Robin Meister - Buffalo, NY - How to Build a Shed
Emily Nemens - Baton Rouge, LA - The Only Thing I Have That Belongs in the Smithsonian
Nate Ochs - Custer, SD - How the Blood Moves in Winter
Dale Rappaneau - East Providence, RI - The Good Wife
Robert Redick - Florance, MA - Some Cars Drive Themselves
Shelia Redling - Huntington, WV - Simmering
Finalists will gather in New York City to participate in a writing workshop taught by Colum McCann, the bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin, and compete in a "Fiction Throwdown" to be held at the Esquire Penthouse on November 1st.
Participants will perform their short short fiction in front of a live audience of contest judges and literati: authors, celebrities, and publishing industry gurus. The grand prize winner will be announced at the party and will walk away with a full ride to the 2012 Advanced Fiction Workshop at Aspen Summer Words, the Aspen Writers' Foundation's flagship writing retreat held each June in Aspen, Colorado.
