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Oceanview’s Short Story Contest

     When we started Oceanview Publishing in 2006, we endeavored to create a
tradition of excellence in independent publishing. Our first short story contest lived up to this vision with over four hundred entries from all over the world.

     We asked for submissions that would set the judges on fire, and it’s safe to say none of them were left cold. The stories had a wide range of subject matter and genre but all had an unusual twist. With such a diverse group of stories to pick from the final decisions by our judges was not an easy one. Therefore, Oceanview would like to sincerely thank our esteemed judges, Patricia Gussin , Kelly Link, and James Patrick Kelly for volunteering their talent and time and for braving the flames.

 
 
 

Winning Submissions -  

     Oceanview is proud to announce and congratulate our first place winner, Joel Arnold for his story “Mississippi Pearl”.  Joel Arnold's work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, ranging from Cat Fancy and American Road Magazine to Weird Tales and the mystery anthology Resort to Murder. A handful of his short stories may be heard in podcast form at www.pseudopod.org. In February, 2009, his short story collection of sci-fi/horror, Bedtime Stories for the Apocalypse, will be available from SamsDot Publishing. Joel lives in Savage, Minnesota with his wife and two kids. Rumors abound that he makes a mean coffee cake.

Click HERE to read Joel’s tragic and surprising story.
 

Winning Finalists

     Oceanview would like to congratulate our two winning finalists:

     K.G. McAbee for “Me and the Bank”.
K.G. McAbee has had several books published and more than sixty short stories. She’s won the Dream Realm Award for Best YA Fantasy, the Eppie Award, and the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence from Reviewers International. Her short fiction has won first prize in the Writer’s Journal (historical) and been a finalist in the Derringer Awards (mystery) and the Sapphire Awards (romantic fantasy). She lives in upstate South Carolina with her husband and three spoiled dogs in a log cabin built in 1816, complete with two resident ghosts. Please visit her website at www.kgmcabee.net for more information, or email her at kgmcabee@gmail.com

Click HERE to read K.G.’s humorous story.

     Karen Pullen for “Heavenly Chorus”.  Karen Pullen lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, where she owns a bed & breakfast, writing between breakfast and check-in. Her story was
inspired by /The Bell Jar/, in which Sylvia Plath writes about her ECT treatments. The narrator of "Heavenly Chorus" is offered a miraculous alternative to ECT, one which ultimately presents a moral dilemma. You can email Karen at rosemarybb@earthlink.net

Click HERE to read Karen’s engaging short story.

 

Honorable Mention

     Oceanview would like to thank the incredible group of authors that contributed their work to help make this contest such a huge success. Below we have listed the stories picked by our judges for Honorable Mention.

Margaret McGaffey Fisk for “Purity”

Nancy Fulda for “Like Rain from Silver Skies”

Steff Green for “Wack”

Michaela Roessner Herman for “The Fishes Speak”

Michael J. Hultquist for “Swallowed”

Kevin Keating for “Merde at the Place de la Contrescarpe”

Chris lovenko for “Ambition”
 

 
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