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Jamie Johnson © © Cover by Jamie Johnson, Maynard, Arkansas Silver Quill Society Best Short Fiction 2015 Contest The Euple Riney Memorial Award 3,000 words max 3,000 words max Must be postmarked by September 25, 2015 Must be postmarked by June 30, 2015 Entry fee: $5.00 (may enter as often as you wish, but entry fee must Entry fee: $5.00 (may enter as often as you wish, but entry fee must accompany each entry.) accompany each entry. 1st place: $50.00 1st place: $50.00 2nd place: $25.00 2nd place: 25.00 3rd place: $15.00 3rd place: 15.00 4th Honorable Mention: $10.00 Honorable Mention: $10.00 This is an open genre contest, but send your best and remember There will also be an editor’s choice award. the first place story will be published in The Storyteller (publication not required to win) so remember to check the regular submission Open genre, but must be about family in some way. Can be fiction guidelines at: www.thestorytellermagazine.com or non-fiction. First place only will be published in The Storyteller Include title page with title, author’s name, address, phone num- (publication not required to win). Do not send anything we would not ber and email, along with number of words. If your name appears accept for general submission. Check our guidelines at anywhere else on the manuscript, the entry will be disqualified. For www.thestorytellermagazine.com details on what the judges look for, go to Must include cover page with title, author’s name, address, phone www.thestorytellermagazine.com and click on Silver Quill Contest number and email, along with number of words. Please indicate and/or submission. whether fiction or non-fiction. Do not put name anywhere else on the manuscript or entry will be disqualified. No cover page will also be disqualified. All manuscripts must be double spaced. Please write Memorial Award on outside of envelope. PASTURES EDGE FINE ART Nancy Riney Black and white photographs Summertime Blues Poetry Contest Water colors Up to 40 lines Must be postmarked by August 31, 2015 Entry fee: $5.00 (per 3 poems, but can enter only 1 or 2) May enter as often as you wish, but entry fee must accompany each set of poems 1st place: $25.00 2nd place: $15.00 3rd place: $10.00 All entries must have a cover page for each poem, listing the title, author’s name, address, phone number and email. Please write Po- etry Contest on outside of envelope. Can be rhyming or non-rhyming and should be about summer, but it isn’t mandatory. 1st place winner only will be published in the maga- Pocahontas, Arkansas zine. contact: [email protected] Send all contest entries to: The Storyteller 2441 Washington Rd. Maynard, AR 72444 Editor’s Notes First I’d like to apologize for the July/August/ September 2014 issue not being printed. Appar- I have just finished the April-June issue of The Storyteller, and again I ently, print material is going the way of the dino- am impressed with the content of my favorite magazine. (Three times saurs and coming up with enough money each in fact!) I enjoyed reading the children’s poetry. Some of the verses quarter is getting harder and harder to do. We are caused Cheshire cat grins to escape from what was a dull day. The going to go online only in March, where you can find it for your tab- young people that you showcased have great talent that I am sure lets, IPods, IPads, desktops, etc. We are going to do our best to stick will blossom into amazing writing skill as they get older. I was also around a while longer yet, but please encourage friends and family to heartened by your desire to grow the magazine. I am enclosing a gift purchase subscriptions and copies to help us to do that. subscription to help. Harold Perkins Please check out www.magzter.com for us. We’ll be on in the next few weeks, so please keep checking if you don’t find us the first time. Editor’s Note: Thank you so much. It is most appreciated and makes We’ve been getting some really great stories and poems and I a huge difference. know people still like short stories, so please help me get the word out that we’re still here and still accepting submissions. Attached is my sub. Please stay in business. The world needs the We know that a lot of you will not be happy about us moving good stories and poems you publish! Leonard H. Roller online, but we feel at this point, we have no choice. It’s either that, or we shut it down completely. Editor’s Note: Thank you so much, Leonard. We are trying! There is some good news attached to the online only—since we won’t have to pay for the printing and postage any longer, we will be You wrote that your spring issue of The Storyteller sold out! Con- able to pay our authors, which I know will be good news for most, if gratulations! It deserved to sell out just as your wonderful publication not all, of you. deserves all the attention it can possibly receive. The Storyteller is a Congratulations to the winners of the Euple Riney Memorial such a great help to both new and seasoned writers. Thank you for it. Award and the Summertime Blues Poetry Contests. There were Garrison Phillips some great stories and poems and I am glad it was not me having to pick out the winners. It would have been a very hard choice. Editor’s Note: It is rare that we sell out, but with help from our If you don’t see your story in the December issues as we first said, reader’s, it could be an every quarter event! Thanks! please know that it will be in the January/February/March 2015 issue. Due to September not coming out, we had to do some creative shuf- fling to make sure we still used the material we had already accepted. Any orders for the September issue will be moved to the December People’s Choice Awards issue as well and anyone ordering the December issue will have their April/May/June 2014 order moved to the March issue. Fiction Winter is coming. Find a warm, comfortable place and visit your creative world and write. 1st place: The Hobos Fairy Tale Bill Judge 2nd place Lost and Found Mary Ann Bedwell Keep writing— 3rd place Dumb Beasts Caroline Taylor Regina Non-fiction 1st place The Trip Diane DeAnda 2nd place Easter Ken DiMaggio 3rd place Our Summer Trek Donna McGuire www.thestorytellermagazine.com Tanner www.reginarineywilliams.com Essay www.mockingbirdlanepress.com 1st place: Once Along the Way George W. Maybee 2nd place: Gratitude Anad Trebolt 3rd place: Lighten Up Dixon Hearne Poetry 1st place: Craft For the Daft J. Michael Strong 2nd place: Alone David Steece 3rd place: Little Book Violet Whittaker Features Katie Waechter 14 Dusty’s Column 6 C. David Hay 17 Fossil Creek Publishing Barb’s Tidbits 7 Debbie Richard 17 2441 Washington Rd. The Finish Line 72 Rick DeBaun Thomas 19 Maynard, AR 72444 Patricia R. Reed 19 Fiction Tony Walton 21 Editor/Publisher Leonard H. Roller 23 Regina Williams Natalie Hendricks 3 Michael R. Tovrea 23 Associate Editor/Assistant Bill Judge 8 Jerold Zell 24 Jamie Johnson Lori Schafer 13 Jane Sinclair 26 Jan Ball 26 Associate Editor Johnny Gunn 16 K. N. Copeland 18 Leonard R. Roller 26 Ruthan Riney Leroy Bohrer 20 Aline Zeng 28 Proofreaders Rosalie Lombardo 22 Leslie Milliken 30 Rick Jankowski Ramona Scarborough 24 Richard S. Powell 30 Articles Editor Walt Polzin 25 Celine Rose Mariotti 32 Dusty Richards Gaye Buzzo Dunn 29 K. S. Hardy 32 Art Director Adron Love 31 Maura Gage Cavell 32 Otis Lawson Linda Wowk 36 Charles Larsen 34 Associate Art Director Jeffery Stone 38 James B. Nicola 35 Nancy Riney John P. Kristofco 40 Gil Hoy 35 Lanette Kissel 44 Carol J. 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