Thank you to all who participated. We had over 130 entries this year. The winners will be notified within the next few days.
2019 Contest Winners!
The 2019 Rejected Manuscripts Competition is now officially closed. Thank you to all who participated, and congratulations to this year’s winners, listed below. We will be sending out licensing agreements shortly, and aim to have the 2019 anthology available as soon as possible.
Rejected Manuscripts will be going on break now; the 2020 competition will begin later.
–Charlie Taylor (Editor)
Obrigado (or “thank you” in Portuguese) by Mandy Miller
The path by Dennis Robleski
Concerning fairies by Thomas J. Misuraca
Frantic feathers by Sylvia Melvin
Aging rhymers by Sylvia Melvin
Capture by Philip Mann
Saying something by Philip Naylor
Our wakeup call by John Grey
The bull in the china shop by Mark Hudson
Death comes to Happy Valley by Sankar Chatterjee
Not good enough for Jamie by Saul Greenblatt
Thunder above, fire below by Joseph Dylan
The travails of Dyke Debenham by Joseph Dylan
The lazy man writes by John Grey
Ancient mariner by Joseph Dylan
This way by Edith Marie Green
Three surrealists in a boat by K. J. Watson
Just the two of us by Monika R. Martyn
The tramp returns by Christian McCulloch
The twilight letter by Mark Hudson
Prison writing class by John Grey
How lucky is she by Karen Walker
Moses denied by Joseph Dylan
Wash and wipe by Migel Jayasinghe
Backstroke or smoke by Mark Hudson
Bobbing by John Grey
The Sea Wolf Cup by K. J. Watson