What’s unkind about the Raven Short Story Contest? Why, making us choose, of course! It’s never easy deciding which stories will make the cut. Sometimes it’s like choosing between apples and automobiles: both are useful, and many are beautiful, but I wouldn’t want to ride in one or eat the other.
But choose we must. And so here are the authors on the longlist, alphabetically by first name:
- Adam Golub
- Amanda Truscott
- Charity Tahmaseb
- Charlene Kwiatkowski
- Claire Lawrence
- Darshan Thind
- David Perlmutter
- David Thompson
- Janice P Egry
- Jeannine Manji
- Jerico Espinas
- Joanna Koch
- Judyth Emanuel
- Kat McNichol
- Kelly Madden
- Kerry Craven
- KT Wagner
- Lisa Voisin
- Margaret Jameson
- Maria Neuda
- Mark Fabiano
- Mark Wagstaff
- Megan Clancy
- Mike Twist
- Nancy Christie
- Nancy Ludmerer
- Pat Flewwelling
- Richard Arbib
- Rose Divecha
- Soramimi Hanarejima
- Tammy Breitweiser
Yes, 31 is a strange number for a longlist. Remember what we said about how hard it is to make a cut? Sometimes we just make the list a little longer to put off the pain.
So thank you writers for being so unkind to us, and congratulations on winning us over this far with your words. The shortlist will be published soon!
While you wait, why not head on over to our Something Novel campaign? Your support of even $1 helps us by raising our profile on Kickstarter, and if you can share it with your friends you’ll help even more. Don’t forget to subscribe for 2017 while you’re there: after all, two of the above names will appear in our Spring 2017 issue!
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