2012 Million Writers Award
If you enjoyed any or all of these short stories of mine, you can consider nominating them for the 2012 Million Writers Award, which specifically honours short fiction published online.
To do so, leave a comment per story on the following link at jasonsanford.com, including your name and email address and the text below that relates to the story you would nominate.
http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2012/03/reader-nominations-for-the-2012-million-writers-award.html
Little Fiction
http://www.littlefiction.com
Story: “The Exchange” by Shawn Syms
Story URL: http://www.littlefiction.com/beta/Shawn_Syms_The_Exchange_files/The_Exchange_iPad.pdf
Joyland
http://www.joylandmagazine.com
Story: “Jenna on Twitter” by Shawn Syms
Story URL: http://www.joylandmagazine.com/stories/toronto/jenna_twitter
The Winnipeg Review
http://www.thewinnipegreview.com/wp/
Story: “Family Circus” by Shawn Syms
Story URL: http://www.thewinnipegreview.com/wp/2012/01/family-circus-short-story/
Thanks for considering this!
Shawn
Nominate your favourite Little Fiction story for the 2012 storySouth Million Writers Award.
The award is for the year’s best online short story — any fictional short story of at least a 1,000 words first published in an online publication during 2011 is eligible. That means not of all of our…
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Coming next week to Little Fiction: our long-awaited Listerature collection.
Sixteen stories in list form, from an extremely talented group of writers: Amber Kennedy, Andrew F. Sullivan, Casey Peterson, Helen Sedgwick, Jacqueline Valencia McDonough, Jessica Patient, Kirsty Logan, Lacy Lalonde, Lailaka Bee, Mairi Campbell-Jack, Matej Novak, Nikki Magennis, Paul McQuade, Rebecca K. O’Connor, Steven D. Stark, Sara Habein and (yours truly) Troy Palmer.
The pieces range from tales of love and loss to stories about innocence and betrayal. There’s a bucket list of seemingly ordinary things, and even a list about lists.
Needless to say, we’re pretty excited to be bringing this project to life and sharing it with you all. Stay tuned.
Thanks.
Five Questions with Little Fiction’s Troy Palmer.
I recently sat down for a brief interview with Jeff McAllister of Mosaic to discuss the past, present and future of Little Fiction and digital publishing.
Enjoy,
Troy
Shawn Syms, author of Little Fiction story The Exchange, took some time out of his day to let us interview him about his short story, writing in general and what’s next for the writer whose journalism, essays, book reviews, and short fiction have appeared in The Journey Prize 21, The…
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
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This is my thanks to Xtra for supporting me throughout the years and my plea to them that the necessary steps regarding the inclusion of trans people are taken. There are a lot of other oppression issues in the queer community, and there is obviously a lot of work to be done by everyone. The only way we all can move forward is by apologizing when we make mistakes and trying to not make them again.
The Exchange comes to us from Shawn Syms, whose work has appeared in The Journey Prize Stories 21, Joyland and PRISM international. He’s also written a whack load of essays, reviews and other journalistic pieces that have appeared in over 30 other publications. In other words, he’s…
New stories means new covers. Here’s a sneak peek at two of our upcoming titles, one from Shawn Syms, the other from Andrew F. Sullivan. Hope you like the covers as much as we do. And of course, the stories behind them are even better.
Cheers.
