storySouth has announced the ten finalists for its Million Writers Award, which honors fiction published online in 2007. The award features a $300 prize for the winner of the public vote. The award looks at all fiction, but there are several genre stories among the finalists.
The finalists are:
“Do Not Hate Them Very Much” by Matthew M. Quick (Agni)
“Friday Afternoons on Bus 51” by Sruthi Thekkiam (Blackbird)
“Postcards from my Brother” by Paul Yoon (Memorious)
“We Never Talk About My Brother” by Peter S. Beagle (Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show)
“The Ethical Dilemma of a Sandwich Down the Pants” by Kelly Shriver (Pindeldyboz)
“The Hide” by Liz Williams (Strange Horizons)
“Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken” by Matt Bell (Storyglossia)
“Grinder” by X.J. Kennedy (StoryQuarterly)
“The Surgeon’s Tale” by Jeff VanderMeer and Cat Rambo (Subterranean)
“News About Yourself” by Scott Wolven (Thuglit)
Information on how to vote (the deadline is 17 July) and links to all the nominees are available on this page.