Dragons is Notable!
Feb. 22nd, 2005 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanJust got word that "Dragons" has been named a Notable Story of 2004 by storySouth.
Confused by what this means? So was I. So I looked it up.
The purpose of the Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2004.
The Reason
The reason for the Million Writers Award is that most of the major literary prizes for short fiction (such as the Best American Short Stories series and the O. Henry Awards) have ignored web-published fiction. This award aims to show that world-class fiction is being published online and to promote this fiction to the larger reading and literary community.
Cool.
Now the editors filter down the rather impressively long list to a final top ten, which the public can vote on. Since some of the names I recognize on the list includes Elizabeth Bear/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala, China Mieville, Howard Waldrop, Walter Jon Williams, Cory Doctorow, and Terry Bisson, I'm not waiting on that final shortlist but taking my kudos where I get 'em.
Go, me! :-)
(oh, and yeah,agamisu, you do get to say toljaso. Again.)
Confused by what this means? So was I. So I looked it up.
The purpose of the Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2004.
The Reason
The reason for the Million Writers Award is that most of the major literary prizes for short fiction (such as the Best American Short Stories series and the O. Henry Awards) have ignored web-published fiction. This award aims to show that world-class fiction is being published online and to promote this fiction to the larger reading and literary community.
Cool.
Now the editors filter down the rather impressively long list to a final top ten, which the public can vote on. Since some of the names I recognize on the list includes Elizabeth Bear/
matociquala, China Mieville, Howard Waldrop, Walter Jon Williams, Cory Doctorow, and Terry Bisson, I'm not waiting on that final shortlist but taking my kudos where I get 'em.Go, me! :-)
(oh, and yeah,
agamisu, you do get to say toljaso. Again.)
