Its the Write Time » Contests http://patrickgwhalen.com Patrick G Whalen - Writing from an Historic Perspective Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Genesis Contest Results http://patrickgwhalen.com/2009/05/genesis-contest-results/ http://patrickgwhalen.com/2009/05/genesis-contest-results/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 02:21:52 +0000 Patrick http://patrickgwhalen.com/?p=522
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]]> The top 5 finalists for each category were announced on 5/14/2009. As you can see from the following list, my entry did not make the finals.

Yes. it is a little frustrating, but I did receive a great amount of positive and constructive feedback on my manuscript.

Now to wait another year for the 2010 Genesis!

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CONTEMPORARY FICTION:
(total entries: 44)

Sharon Ball
David W. Fry
Jennifer Griffith
Ane Mulligan
Patty Slack

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE:
(total entries: 75)

Cathy Bryant
Kathleen Haynes
Lisa Jordan
Christy LaShea Smith
Eileen Astels Watson

HISTORICAL FICTION:
(total entries: 39)

Nancy Herriman
D'Ann Mateer
Christina Miller
Sandi Rog
Christine Schmidtke

HISTORICAL ROMANCE (six finalist entries due to a tie, but one is a
double finalist):
(total entries: 57)

Jody Hedlund (double finalist with two entries)
Lisa Richardson
Connie Stevens
Gina Welborn
Lacy Williams

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/THRILLER:
(total entries: 45)

David Fry
Anne Greene
Dineen Miller
Lynda Schab
Alan Schleimer

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE:
(total entries: 50)

Mary F. Allen
Wenda Dottridge
Danica Favorite-McDonald
Kelly Ann Riley
Janet Warren

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/SPECULATIVE FICTION:
(total entries: 45)

Valerie Comer
Megan Ebba
David Fry
Suzanne Krein
Lisa Tuttle

WOMEN'S FICTION:
(total entries: 62)

Cathleen Armstrong
Marie Wells Coutu
Candee Fick
Julie Garmon
Ashely Weis

YOUNG ADULT:
(total entries: 37)

Kasey L. Heinly
Gretchen Hoffman
Susan Miura
Diana Sharples (double finalist with two entries)

This year, the Genesis had a whopping 454 entries!
]]> http://patrickgwhalen.com/2009/05/genesis-contest-results/feed/ 1 American Christian Fiction Writers – Genesis http://patrickgwhalen.com/2009/02/american-christian-fiction-writers-genesis/ http://patrickgwhalen.com/2009/02/american-christian-fiction-writers-genesis/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:38:20 +0000 Patrick http://patrickgwhalen.com/?p=7 This afternoon, upon months and months, and days and days of writing, critiquing, editing, and re-editing, I submitted the first chapter of my first novel to the American Christian Fiction Writers Genesis Contest.

I look forward to discovering how published professionals view my writing.

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